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shoutouts: here and beyond!

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This week I’d love to give some shoutouts to some upcoming publications as well as to share some other happenings. Here we go:

  • Shoutout to Quintin Collins whose second poetry collection, Claim Tickets for Stolen People (winner of The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize), is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press’ imprint Mad Creek. This collection is available for pre-order here. For more on Collins and his work, check out this feature.
  • Shoutout also to John Sibley Williams whose poetry collection, The Drowning House (winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award) is also forthcoming and available for pre-order. Check out this past feature to see some of his work.
  • Lastly, shoutout to this happening: phenomenal poet Bert Meyers finally has a page on the Poetry Foundation site. This has been a long time coming, even emailed myself at one point to nudge the good folx along to honor and have an online space for his work. Check out this past post (and this one, and this one, haha) on his work to further celebrate his work. I’ve done a few posts on his works and am always down to geek out about it 🙂

That’s all for now. Off to catch my breath as life keeps spinning forward. Stay safe, y’all!

recent book review + other happenings

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My new work schedule has me more or less staying on top of things, with the odd exception of making time for blogposts. Been meaning to hop on here and share a bit, so here goes:

A photograph of a woman standing in Tan Zi Xi’s art installation “Plastic Ocean.” (photo credit Verve Magazine).
  • First, I’m excited to share my book review of Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst is available to be read on The Cincinnati Review site. Check it out here. My review and experience of Lubrin’s work was influenced by the art of Tan Zi Xi, specifically her art installation “Plastic Ocean.” Thank you to Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman for the opportunity to share my thoughts on Lubrin’s dynamic book! Be sure to check out other excerpts from the issue available on the CR site.
  • Also, last night was the Salamander issue 52 virtual reading with featured readers Ananda Lima, Andy Smart, and Stephanie Burt. We were able to record the reading–check it out here. Thank you to the readers and for everybody who came out to celebrate the issue–excerpts of which can be read here.
  • Lastly, last month I was able to virtually participate as part of the Boog City Arts Festival. For this event, I recorded myself reading my poetic sequence “The Wall” in full–something which I’ve never had the opportunity to do. This poem is featured in my collection, Until We Are Level Again. Thank you to Dimitri Reyes and everyone at Boog City for the opportunity to connect and for creating such a great community! Check out this reading here.

I have a few more things in the works for blogposts, a few reviews and such, in the coming month. For now, I hope y’all are surviving the best you can in this chaotic world. Thank you for taking the time to read this.