Stream of Consciousness

Sugar Baby Finds a Poetry Home!

Photo by Nycleed

Every now and then, you write a poem that you think will never find its true readers. “The Great and Marvelous Sugar Baby Has (Not) Spoken” was one of those poems for me. A persona meets ekphrastic poem about a now long-gone work of art. Luckily, the women at Visitant, a new journal for literary pilgrims, decided to publish it.

The Domino Sugar factory where Kara Walker erected her astonishing sugar baby sculpture may be no more but the sugar baby herself gets to (still) have the last word...

 

Shattered...

 

My poem, “On the latter-day wish for a transmigration of soul,” will be featured in the upcoming Shattered anthology from Kind of a Hurricane Press later this year.

Secrets and Dreams...

 

 

Three of my poems, “Elegy for the Lifelong Incunabulist,” “One More Attempt to Set the Record Straight about the Breaking Out/Away/Off/Up/Down,” and “Voyage in the Dark” have been accepted for publication in the Secrets and Dreams anthology from Kind of a Hurricane Press later in 2016.

Interview time...

The wonderful Anchor & Plume Press of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is publishing a pocket book of my long poem, Great Hunger, on St. Patrick’s Day. You can pre-order copies here. You can find an interview with me here.

 

The blue-dressed devil finally finds her home --

 

At Phantom Kangaroo  --

Backhoes and Hollyhocks for the Winter Solstice --

 

Two of my poems, “Same As It Ever Was” and “Before the chainsaw and the chain-link and the backhoe” are featured here in riverbabble 28.

 

 

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me?

 

My poem, “Bird, Flown” has been accepted for print publication in the Fall 2015  issue of Pilgrimage magazine out of Colorado State University in Pueblo, Colorado. The themes for the double issue? Beginnings and Flight!

Great Hunger Poetry Pocket Book!

 

My multi-part, nine-page poetic sequence, “Great Hunger,” has been selected by Anchor & Plume of Baton Rouge, Louisiana for publication as a poetry pocket book in 2016! They focus on poetry about landscape and place. Glad that epic has finally found a home. And in print no less.

August Dog Days of Summer and Disobedience...

The Disobedient issue is up and running at Poemeleon, hot off the pixel-bit presses. My (dis)obedient poem featured there includes bonfires and daffodils, spiral-bound notebooks and Rubbermaid roughneck totes.

UPS Delivery, Monday, June 8, 2015

A box of books!