The results are in! I participated in one of Sixfold’s reader-voted writing contests, and I found it a fascinating experience. Unlike most contests, each entry is judged by other entrants in three rounds of voting. After I submitted my batch of poems, I received an email telling me when voting began. Then I was able…Continue reading Sixfold contest results are in!
Tag: poetry
Upcoming bar poems anthology
Yay yay yay! My poem “Valencia Street, Sunday Morning” has been selected for an upcoming Bar Poems anthology from Main Street Rag! Besides a quarterly print mag that features poetry, fiction, art, interviews, and reviews, Main Street Rag publishes books of poetry, and (under other imprints) fiction, nonfiction and anthologies. This one is expected to…Continue reading Upcoming bar poems anthology
Book review: Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson
I was lucky enough to snag a copy of the gorgeous, brand-new Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson from Quarto Publishing. If you love poetry and art–or heck, just appreciate thoughtful contemplation of the seasons–check out this book. Divided into seasons, 35 of Dickinson’s nature poems edited by Dickinson expert Susan Snively dance among beautiful ink-and-watercolor illustrations…Continue reading Book review: Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson
Book review: Brown Girl Dreaming
How did I not know that Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming was a book in verse?! Highly awarded, this memoir (in verse!) describes the author’s childhood in the 1960’s and ’70s in Iowa, South Carolina, and Brooklyn. Woodson paints portraits of places and people with spare-yet-lush poetic language. Each poem could stand alone, some moreso…Continue reading Book review: Brown Girl Dreaming
Stinkwaves accepted two poems!
Woo-hoo! Two of my poems, “American Inferno” and “The Threshold Machine” are going to be published in the Spring 2017 issue of Stinkwaves Magazine! Stinkwaves is a literary magazine for adults and kids who are fans of the “beautifully bizarre.” On its homepage, it invokes writers such as J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, Lemony Snicket, Neil…Continue reading Stinkwaves accepted two poems!
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