"The [essayist] cannot imagine their [essay], and cannot perceive it until it is complete." ~ Cooper Dart (and Sol Lewitt) brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...

made a reminder

Virtual release for Terms of Venery, Revised this Thursday, 7 p.m., Eastern. Invited-mic readers from Sheila-Na-Gig’s most recent issue to follow. Zoom registration here—Join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Deeply moved listening to this podcast and hearing my poem "On the Weight of the Soul, the Weight of a Cloud, the Weight of a Whale" read by Luisa A. Igloria. She goes on to read several more poems from the Nature of Our Times, including her own fab work. withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/the-...

Just a little Cyber-Monday note that if you’re interested in a poetry treat for yourself or someone you love, these two chaps are available through Bottlecap Press at $10 each OR $3.50 each for a PDF copy. That’s a pretty good two-fer! Two digital copies from less than the price of one print copy!

Thanks to Braided Way Magazine. 🙏💕 braidedway.org/passages/

Fall schedule somehow keeps growing. October/November: Youngstown, Bowling Green, and Baltimore, OH.

“There’s a full harvest moon out there/ somewhere. But this is Ohio // and it’s raining…”

October 5th is LAST DAY for preorder special price of Terms of Venery, Revised! Available at discounted price of $12.80. Regular price of $16.00 starts on Monday, October 6th. sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gi...

Happy to have a poem in this issue! “Grief as Tunnel Painted in the Side of a Mesa”

So pleased to be part of this anthology and important educational project, with Paloma Press, Wick Poetry, and United by Nature. 🌱 #TheNatureOfOurTimes

Proof copy has arrived! Terms of Venery, Revised. From Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. So proud. So pretty! And two sample poems are available here, in the new fall issue of Sheila-Na-Gig Online. Pre-order sale info included in the same link! sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi...

Poetry marathon at Bexley library today, hosted by Mimi Chenfeld and Fred Andrle!

So pleased to share that my new collection of poetry, Terms of Venery, Revised, is now available for pre-order from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gi...

Today’s highlighted poem is “This Place, Too, a Loss: Blue Whale.” From The Wardrobe, who chose As If This Did Not Happen Every Day as this week’s Best-Dressed feature. sundressblog.com/2025/08/12/t...

The Wardrobe, a Sundress publication, has selected As If This Did Not Happen Every Day as its “Best Dressed” feature this week. Today they’ve chosen to highlight “Indoctrination, 1972.” Thanks so much to guest curator Alexis Ivy, and Wardrobe managing editor Krista Cox.☀️

I adore this book! The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom, by Camille-Yvette Welsch. Picked it up a while ago for the cover and title alone. Finally started reading several weeks ago and fell. in. love. 😍 Still managed not to finish , so doing that now for #TheSealeyChallenge, Day 1.

Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...

July 24, 2025

This is the exhibition that will be on display when Chuck Salmons, Kip Knott and I read on Sunday, August 10th. Figuratively Speaking III at Pennington Custom Art Service, opening reception August 2nd. Show up through the month of August.

Save-the-Date reminders for two upcoming Columbus readings! I’ll be reading with Kip Knott and Chuck Salmons in August, and with Cathy Essinger and Barbara Sabol in September. 📚💕

Summer. Things are heating up. bottlecap.press/products/sin...

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget

Our first monthly listings newsletter is out! We've got: ✨️ Competitions ✨️ Submission Calls ✨️ Residencies ✨️ Retreats ✨️ Conferences ✨️ Writer ads & More Read it here; open.substack.com/pub/european...

So devastating 💔

Sharing again on Pigeon Appreciation Day. 🐦💕

Wow. Just wow.

May 26, 2025

What’s blooming.

We’ve started a list of presses/editors we’re impressed with (and endorse, basically ❤️). Wish we could add Birds, LLC, and others not here! go.bsky.app/AvXhWVf

New poem, written largely in my head as I drove home to Columbus from Kent, about a two-hour drive. Unbeknownst to me when I started, I was headed straight into a supercell storm, one that spawned terrible destruction elsewhere.

Submissions to Plant-Human Quarterly are open year-round 🌞send us poems and essays that reach toward the botanical, that blur the lines between human and plant, self and season!🌿 For more info on submitting, see here: otherwisecollective.com/phq-submissi... #write #litmag #poetry #poems #ecopoetry

I always make sure, with each new book that comes out, that a copy goes to these two places in my Massachusetts home town: Hazen Memorial Library and the Shirley Historical Society. All signed, and at the library, in their special collection where they can be viewed/read on site but not checked out.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Bonnie Proudfoot. 🤍

55 years ago today. Kent State. May 4 is never about Star Wars in these parts. Please take a moment at 12:24 this afternoon and remember... because a repeat of something like this is closer than you know.

Updated with audio link. “God Considers the Next Extinction.”

It is with great pride that I announce the release of my second collection of stories, FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press, 2025). You may purchase your copy through Submittable by going to www.louisianaliterature.org.

Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social for including my new flash fiction “Bird in the Desert” in the new issue of Ghost Parachute. This is the first of a series of flashes that I’m writing about jazz sax legend Charlie “Bird” Parker.