Katie Stromme notified me that my poem, “Terrorists,” was selected as one of two Runners-Up for the 2016 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize.  I had shown a draft of this poem to Tony Hoagland, Steve Bunch, Wayne Lee, and Michael Scofield, who offered some editing suggestions which must have helped it in the eyes of the final judge, Lee Upton.  Hunger Mountain will publish the runner-up poems, and both poets will receive a monetary payment. Please see Hunger Mountain’s announcement.

Two Hawks Quarterly out of Antioch University in Los Angeles have posted the June 2016 issue with my poem “Accidents of the Holy Family.” Gaudi’s grandiose cathedral may be familiar to readers, if the fatalism and familial drama are not. See the Links page of this web site.

You never know what you might find if you type your own name into the search bar. I discovered that in addition to putting out fine printed copies of their journal, the editors of Santa Fe Literary Review have been posting the issues on line. So I found six of my poems in as many issues going back to 2008. You can see them by going to the Links page of this web site. Oh and I also found an essay and two poems from my time at the 2001 W. B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland online in The Drunken boat, and posted it as well.

In the 3rd week of my stay at the Willapa Bay Artist Residency, the artist-residents were invited to “show & tell” what they’d been working on. My offering, a 15 minute reading was audio-taped by visual artist Jeannette Louie. You can listen to it on youtube via a link provided on the “Selected Works” page of this site.

Going back to 1999, I’ve had three poems published in Flint Hills Review, the literary magazine of Emporia State University ably shepherded by the poet/drummer/professor Kevin Rabas. Now I am pleased that they want to use a poem about an imagined airliner disaster called “Another Chance” for the magazine’s 21st issue.

My latest book, Coltrane’s God, took first place in the Poetry Book Category in the annual New Mexico Press Women Competition.  Quoth the judge: “The poetry in this book is moving and involves the reader emotionally.” As a first place winner in a state Press Women contest, it will automatically be submitted to this year’s National Federation of Press Women contest.

Editor Betsy Anderson notified me that Comstock Review will be publishing my poem, “In a Bar Near the School for the Deaf,” in its upcoming 30th anniversary issue. This is a poem that Tony Hoagland took an interest in, so I want to thank him for his input that spurred me to make this a publishable poem.

Amanda Sutton of Bookworks in Albuquerque kindly scheduled a reading for me at 3:00 PM on June 25, 2016.  Please see the Calendar page for details.

Jules Nyquist, Director of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Albuquerque, is host for my reading there on May 25th at 6:30 PM.  I hear it’s a very intimate setting, so it should be quite different from the sold-out soccer stadiums I’ve been playing to. (Check out the Calendar Page for details.)

My first reading back in Nuevo Mexico after my Pacific Northwest trip will be in Santa Fe at Teatro Paraguas on May 15th.  Longview, Washington-based poet Joseph Green kindly invited me to share the bill with him at 5:30 PM. (See Calendar page.)