I’m honored, humbled, over-the-moon, dancing on clouds, but really at a loss for words to adequately describe the news that Skin Shift and I have been included on the eighth annual list of debut poets from Poets & Writers magazine (Jan/Feb 2013 issue). Here are the twelve of us:
- Zubair Ahmed
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
- John Chávez
- Feng Sun Chen
- Laura Cronk
- Natalie Diaz
- Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
- Matthew Hittinger
- Shara Lessley
- Adam Vines
- Marcus Wicker
- Angela Veronica Wong
Contributing editor Rigoberto González selected and introduces us (my profile/spread is on pages 72-73). The entire experience of Skin Shift coming into the world, from writing it to having Bryan select it as one of SRP’s titles, to working with him to put it together and with Michael DiMotta to do the cover, to its launch and reception–it has been one helluva magical experience. This is one post I don’t know how to properly exit, so I’ll leave you with a snapshot:
Congrats!