This year was going to be the year I busted 100 rejections again, until it wasn’t. But I’m still working toward the goal even if I don’t believe I’ll reach it. In my reboot era, I’m collecting rejections (and a few acceptances), and I have some tips.. Read More
Reimagine Reality at Inlandia Journal’s Issue Launch August 20
Reimagine reality in Inlandia Journal’s Summer 2026 Speculative issue. Register for the August 20 launch for readings and artist talks. I’m grateful to be among them! Read More
Marching Toward Dystopia with Sublimation
Sublimation Volume 3, Issue2, is marching toward dystopia, and I’m right there on the march with two poems in its pages. Now available! Read More
The Obsessions of the 5th Annual Poetry Pub Crawl
Johnson City Poets Collective’s 5th Poetry Pub Crawl, held October 9, was a night filled with poets in pubs (and like venues) with performances, prizes, poems to obsess over, and plenty of joy. Read More
Rawhead’s Bloody Bones Issue is Live
Bloody Bones, first special issue of Rawhead Journal delivers on this theme, and one of my poems is included. Plus more poetry and photography news. Read More
Tennessee Voices 2024-2025 Now Available
Tennessee Voices Anthology, 2023-2024, Poetry Society of Tennessee’s poetry anthology of winning and selected poems, is now available. (And I’m in it!) Read More
#amreading August 2025: #notwriting?
This month, I take on the Nicole Sealey Reading Challenge. Read More
Work Published in Abyss & Apex Issue 95
My poem “Relapse” wasrecently published in Abyss & Apex, the Hugo-Nominated Magazine of Speculative Fiction. Read More
Chasing #100Rejections and Poetry Events
#100rejections: Write. Submit. Repeat. The chase for rejections is on. I’m chasing poetry events being held across Tennessee, too. Read More
#amwriting: Seven Ways to Stay Sane While Chasing (More) Rejections
I’m still alive, just busy living the creative life, engaged in practice and collecting rejections (and a few acceptances). Read More