Publications & Achievements
A Poem with a Gun Inside
It beats. It hums. My heart--- what else could beat so cold and low as this : make me a list. give me a kiss : Kalamazoo, I love you. Paris, Baghdad, and Beruit, I love you. What more harm can we inflict than gunfire on a summer’s day, a winter walk, what life...
Two Poems up at Birds Piled Loosely Today!
Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my poems, "You Fill another Page" and "Gunshots and Fireworks are Sort of the Same in the End." are both up at Birds Piled Loosely today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving these...
big poem, small poem / new poem sure / longer poem, brighter poem / birds birds birds
Hello all! It's been a while again, I know. I've been missing writing in the worse way but otherwise wrapped up in my new job, writing a new bio: McKenzie lives and writes in South Bend, where she works at Indiana University, etc. It's been a blast, but I've...
Two Poems up at New Mexico Review today!
Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my poems, "Excavation," and "Passing through My Neighbor's Backyard," are both up at New Mexico Review today! Dear Editors, especially Tyler Mills, thank you so much for this recognition and giving these poems a...
Poem up at Whale Road Review today!
Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my dinosaur poem, "Shopping for T-Rex," is up at Whale Road Review today! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home; I am so happy to be a part of your premiere issue......
“Where I Write” Feature in Rogue Agent Today!
Hi, everyone! In case you haven't heard elsewhere, I was featured in this month's "Where I Create" gallery, up at Rogue Agent. I sent in a snapshot of where I write most often in my home, as well as a picture of my most-constant writing companion, Kovu. Here's...
Two Truths & A Lie
My future & my past are essentially the same: whether it is me or her riding in the back seat, I still have to ask permission of my mother or daughter if I can go anywhere. I traded in my happiness like a receipt for defective batteries, & the world keeps...
Poem in this year’s The Spooklet!
Hi all! Just in case you haven't heard elsewhere, my surrealist poem, "The Healer," is in this year's The Spooklet! Dear Editors, thank you so much for this recognition and giving this poem a home and for all the work you put into these awesome, individualized,...
Poem of the Day & Reading Posts
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese”
WILD GEESE You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine....
Poem of the Day: Christine Garren
THE WOVEN MESSAGE come hide near me I’ll count however long I need to count the insects in the web--- I like the still living ones—that beat of wing I hear or the still turned-on ignition of the firefly---I see one’s underbelly blink on and off---come...
Poem of the Day: Cynthia Cruz
SELF-PORTRAIT I did not want my body Spackled in the world’s Black beads and broke Diamonds. What the world Wanted, I did not. Of the things It wanted. The body of Sunday Morning, the warm wine and The blood. The dripping fox Furs dragged through the...
Poem of the Day: Claudia Rankine
/ You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there. You think maybe this is an experiment and you are being...
Poem of the Day: Allan Peterson
THE INEVITABLE To have that letter arrive was like the mist that took a meadow and revealed hundreds of small webs once invisible The inevitable often stands by plainly but unnoticed till it hands you a letter that says death and you notice the weed...
Poem of the Day: Ross Gay
BURIAL You're right, you're right, the fertilizer's good--- it wasn't a gang of dullards came up with chucking a fish in the planting hole or some midwife got lucky with the placenta--- oh, I'll plant a tree here!--- and a sudden flush of quince and jam...
Poem of the Day: Chad Forbregd
CAPGUN Imagine a boy holding a capgun. Now, instead of a boy, imagine a man holding a portrait of a boy with a capgun. There's an orange tip painted on the end of his assault rifle. It's okay, it just looks fake, it's actually quite real. Later the boy...
Poem of the Day: Robert Hass
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING Many are making love. Up above, the angels in the unshaken ether and crystal of human longing are braiding one another's hair, which is strawberry blond and the texture of cold rivers. They glance down from time to time at the...
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