The Vampire Returns

 

My disabled vampire poem—probably one of my favorite poems I've ever written—is out now in the beautiful, broody DEAD OF WINTER II anthology from Milk and Cake Press. Get your copy here. 

One Salty New Death Poem

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2019: I read a surreal article about a new eco-friendly method of human body disposal. For reasons I still don’t understand, I immediately wonder what poet/witch/oracle Brent Reichenberger would make of it. I start taking notes.

2022: My poem “Aquamation (for and after Brent Reichenberger)” is out in Hecate magazine's body-horror collection FRANKENZINE. You can read it here.

p.s. Sorry Brent

Another Kitchen Fire, Or The Same One, Again

Just in time for the holidays, my Christmas/fire poem is out in Day Eight's beautiful anthology THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS. (I have a bad habit of starting fires on holidays—probably because that's when I'm most likely to be in the kitchen.)

Read the poem here, and get your copy of THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS here.

Recent Work

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It's been a very fancy few months. Some recent publications:

• Two prose poems in Moonchild Magazine, Issue Six
• One micropoem in PØST, Issue V
• A reprint in Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2020
• A matchbox (!) from Post Ghost Press 
• One poem in small poems for the masses, volume five

One Poem In Aesthetica

My poem "Surreal Monogamist," originally published in Yes Poetry, appears in this year's Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual. Get your copy here.

Three New Tarot Poems

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The Moon: the uncanny landscape of the subconscious, revealed.
The Ten of Pentacles: prosperity, good fortune, dreams.
The Tower: inevitable disaster.

My small poems on these cards are out now in Yes Poetry's new e-chapbook Haunted: Tarot Poems.

Download the free book here or read just my poems here.

New Anthology

My poem "Surreal Monogamist" made it into Yes, Poetry's 2018 anthology Gently/Not Gently. You can download the e-book for free here.

[Image description: Book cover showing a mesh bag of lemons on a light blue background. One lemon has escaped the bag and is decaying. The text reads "Gently/Not Gently: Poems for 2018. Yes Poetry."]

Unrequited

Some more welcome news: two of my space poems will appear in the book Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems About Inanimate Objects. It's a terrific collection, and I'm really happy to be a part of it.

I'll be reading both poems at the book launch party on Friday, June 17 at 7 p.m. at Upshur Street Books in D.C. Come say hi, eat some snacks, and hear some poems. Maybe buy a book. If that's not a good way to spend a Friday night, I don't know what is.

More details are here.