Tag Archives: Accolades

Three Pushcart Nominations, Best of the Net Nomination

Two nominations this week.  Whee! Didi Menendez has nominated “In Pursuit of a More Perfect Armor” for a Pushcart Prize (my fifth nomination over the years!). This poem will be debuting shortly in the special November collaboration issue of Oranges … Continue reading

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Fun Article: Moves in Contemporary Poetry

I came across this fun article at HTMLGIANT cataloging the moves we contemporary poets like to make in our work.  “This Is Not About Pears” was mentioned in #36 as an example of “Definition or description by negation” which, I … Continue reading

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Gregory Woods Reviews Ganymede Poets, One for Chroma

Gregory Woods, author of the critical study Articulate Flesh: Male Homoeroticism and Modern Poetry (a well-worn copy of which sits by my desk) has reviewed the anthology Ganymede Poets, One for Chroma: A Queer Literary and Arts Journal. Woods highlights some of our … Continue reading

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Pushcart Nomination

Justin Evans at Hobble Creek Review has nominated my poem “In the Shadow City…” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks Justin!

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Semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize

Just found out The Erotic Postulate was a semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize. Congrats to Oliver de la Paz for his winning manuscript Requiem for the Orchard!  You can read some of Oliver’s work in the first issue … Continue reading

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Finalist for the 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize

I found out on Friday that my second manuscript, Skin Shift, was a finalist in this year’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. It was a finalist last year for the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. If it keeps this track … Continue reading

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Featured on Verse Daily!

“This Is Not About Pears” from Pear Slip is featured on Verse Daily today!

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Cover Boy: Four Poems in MiPOesias December 2008

Please check out the December 2008 (Volume 22, Issue 8 ) MiPOesias. I’m the cover boy! And I have four poems included: “Bethesda,” “Baked Peanuts,” “The Light, the Idea of Light, Repeats Itself at South Beach,” and Zer0 Ground.” And … Continue reading

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Second Pushcart Nomination

David Krump at Oranges & Sardines has nominated “Somersault Precedes Transformation” for a Pushcart Prize. You can read the poem in issue one of O&S: Get your own – Open publication

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PSA Chapbook Finalist

Found out today that Specular Reflection was a finalist/runner-up for the Poetry Society of America’s New York Chapbook Fellowship as selected by Fanny Howe. You can read the winners and finalists here. Congrats to John Estes for the win with … Continue reading

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