Cool news: I got an acceptance from scaffold literary magazine

I got a new poem published in @somewordslit.bsky.social

I’m working on a new full length play at the cafe? And Sonic Youth is playing on the barista playlist? What year is it?

I co-wrote a musical

I got a new poem published in electric pink

So I’m watching Heated Rivalry when suddenly I hear one of my favorite songs, “I’ll Believe In Anything” by Wolf Parade, and my heart does that thing hearts do when they turn into the sandworms from Dune and travel through the deserts of memory and I’m like “shit this is a poem”

Woke up today to an acceptance from @theargylelitmag.bsky.social. They’ll be taking three poems. Cool stuff

Cool news: just got an acceptance from Michigan City Review of Books

I got a new poem published in the latest issue of Blue Earth Review. It’s called “The Rite-Aid Has Become a Spirit Halloween”

I got a new poem published in the latest issue of Blue Earth Review. It’s called “The Rite-Aid Has Become a Spirit Halloween”

Cool news. electric pink & underscore_mag will be publishing a couple of my poems

Thundersnow ain’t stopping us. Great crowd tonight for Megan Kemple and the poetry open mic

If you’re in Buffalo, join us tonight at Caffe Aroma as we welcome our featured poet Megan Kemple! Open mic to follow after. The fun starts at 9

I got a new poem published in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser

one of my two poems in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser dodoeraser.org/2026/01/14/d...

I just read the three poems you got published - loved it - the sadness of the humour especially👌

The last poem I got published in 2025. Big thx to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. Let’s continue to sing in the New Year. Love you all

#Poem -- Elegy for the Old Year

Cool stuff here

You may call it depression but I call it the creative process: hanging out in the bathtub, listening to a chillwave playlist and thinking about the poem I’m writing about a foggy memory from ten years ago

I got three new poems published in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. A nice way to end the year. Here's one of them

I got a new poem published in @thimblelitmag.bsky.social

Broke: Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Woke: It’s a Wonderful Life is a horror film.

Big thx to @jbstone.bsky.social for the great review of ‘Concrete Christmas’ - that first sentence will surely go to my head

So I’m on a walk on my lunch and it hit me that I need to adapt Eyes Wide Shut but set it in Buffalo. It will be called ‘Eyes Wide Shut in Buffalo’

Hear that lonesome whistle blow

Happy to announce that I’m the new Poet in Residence at the GameStop next to the Starbucks, which has only one table to sit at. Somewhere closeby are abandoned train tracks aimed directly at your broken heart

My poem “Two Men Who’ve Gotten Vasectomies Go to the Abandoned Children’s Hospital Where They Were Born” has been accepted by @somewordslit.bsky.social

My poem “I'm Staring at This Office Chair Frozen in the Snow” has been accepted by La Rotonde Review! Thanks Karina

Big thanks to Bella Poynton for the wonderful review of ‘Concrete Christmas’ in The Buffalo Hive. Crowds have been great, we have two shows left (tonight at 7:30 and Saturday at 5)

Took the day off work and went to Antique World with my mom. This vintage ornament looks like Donald Trump. Yes, this will probably be a poem

“This morning I was writing—the words were just flowing and doing their thing—then I had a zoom meeting and the words died. They are gone. Such is the writing life with its daily graves.” -- Alina Stefanescu

A busy poetry workshop tonight with Hy-Deia Elwadi

Another poem I got published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social

2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?

And one last note from tonight. I walked by this guy as he told his friend, “It was so cold last night I went to sleep in my bathrobe” and then we locked eyes for an awkward second. I hurried on my way

After a long walk around the city, I’m now winding down with some Italian sipping chocolate while Twin Peaks is playing on the cafe TV. I’ve never felt more me

I was having an annoying day but then I saw this

Big thanks to Buffalo Rising for the review

Got some poems published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social (forgot to share them). Here’s one

Two playwrights and a Christmas tree

Love to see it.🖤

Last night’s poetry open mic was a good one. Nothing like reading a poem in a sea of people

Great crowd tonight for the poetry open mic featuring Hy-Deia Elwadi

My poem “A Black Helicopter Hangs Over the City Like Mistletoe” will appear in the inaugural issue of Dodo Eraser. Big thx to @travisshosa.bsky.social

I got a new poem published in Mugwort Magazine

One of my favorite “it’s snowing but in the pretty way” songs

Fred Claus is playing on TV as I send out poetry submissions. I am tired