Preorders open for THEY SAID from Black Lawrence Press!

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Happy National Poetry Month! I am pleased as punch to show you this beautiful-weird new cover for They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing—and more pleased than punch to announce that preorders are now open!! 

Poet-friend Isobel O'Hare and I co-wrote a poem that appears in here. You can read about our process in the back of the book once it makes its way to your hot little hands. The full list of contributors, advanced praise (including from the editors of ZYZZYVA—I swooned), and order link are in today's BLP announcement.

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In other Poetry Month news, Society of Young Inklings interviewed me as their resident poet for their monthly newsletter, the Ink Splat. You can read about me writing poems for online communities as a teen, gushing about Matthew Zapruder, and being inspired by young writers here.

Second edition of Inevitable What released

I am pleased to announce that after a lovely limited-edition run with Sad Spell Press, my chapbook, Inevitable What, lives on in a new format! The second edition is available as a paperback and an ebook (for Kindle, Nook, and the whole slew), featuring several new watercolor illustrations by my fabulous collaborating artist, Sirin Thada.

Laura Madeline Wiseman recently asked me about Inevitable What and other things over at The Chapbook Interview. Give it a peep here.

Happy holidays!

Publication announcement: "Cosmologies" in Vine Leaves anthology

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Today is the official release date for this handsome coffee-table book, Vine Leaves Literary Journal: A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe. It includes "Cosmologies," a vignette I wrote some years ago in a creative writing class with Kate Evans.

The prompt was "you are an astronaut," and while many in my class wrote madcap sci-fi adventures, I thought about how children can believe they are anything. I wrote from the perspective of a mother recognizing that she can still create magic for her young son, but she won't always be able to.

The book of vignettes and photography is available to order at various sites here. If you, like me, are obsessive about adding books to the "to-read" list in Goodreads, you can find and add it here.

Annnnd stay tuned for another book-related announcement soon!