Publications and Awards


 

My writing has appeared (or will appear) in the magazines listed below.


4AM Poetry Review: Song
13th Warrior Review: Homecoming
51%: A Daughter's Sacrifice, Invitation to a Woman
Artisan, A Journal of Craft: Elegy at a South-Side El Stop, Ground
Birmingham Poetry Review: The Last Letter Between Lovers
Blood Orange Review: Gather Us
Borderlands: Old Love in August
Chattahoochee Review: One Day Foraging, Baseball with the Dead
Devil Blossoms: Hopes
Euphony: I Total another Car just before my Birthday
Garfield Lake Review: Story at the East St. Louis Bus Station
Glass Poetry Review: The Problem with Memory
Growling Softly: The Word
Harbinger: The Leaning House (short story)
Hiss Quarterly: Nothing Like Gold (short story), Before You Were a Prophet (novel serialization), You Are What You Eat (short story)
Inkwell Anthology: Revisiting
Laurel Review: On Stabbing A Man And Being A Good Listener, Surroundings
Milestone: Life Story (creative non-fiction)
New Mirage Quarterly: Morning
Nightsun: Crossing Rivers
North Texas Review: The Age-Old Love Story of Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Old Crow Review: The Cropduster’s Epistle to the Earthbound, Catching Strays,
      To Sleep Alone

Poets against the War Anthology (online): Walking in War-time America
The Poetry SuperHighway: Doodah the Hamster Died for My Sins; Lubbock, Texas;
      What if the world ends tomorrow?; Advice To Hitchhikers

Sein und Werden: Solstice
Rag Mag: Modeling Nude
Stirring.net: The Masturbating Baboon at the Brookfield Zoo, Waking Where I Come From
Sycamore Review: The Frog Finds His Home in the Damp, Damp World;
     After the Long Illness

This So Called Life Anthology: In Defense of Darkness, What Might Catch Your Eye, Meeting the Witnesses, Procession
We Need Not Walk Alone: Elegy for the Outdoorsman
Westview: Conveniences
Writing on the Edge: My First Love Sat Next to Me in My High School Physics Class,
     My friend the poet

 

The list of small successes and near misses that have validated my existence:
 

2007, Nominee: Pushcart Prize

2006, Judge: 9th Annual Poetry Superhighway Poetry Contest

2005, 2nd Place: 8th Annual Poetry Superhighway Poetry Contest

2004, Nominee: Pushcart Prize

2003, Finalist: Violet Reed Haas poetry competition

2002, Semi-Finalist: Cleveland State University first book competition

2001, 1st Place: Abbie M. Copps Poetry Competition

1999, Finalist: Dana Award for poetry

1998, 2nd Place: Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers' poetry contest


And I just got a rejection letter from Sojourners. It was a form letter. Down at the bottom someone had written, "Excellent writing."

How am I supposed to feel about that?


 

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