The redesigned site (thanks to the amazing Elizabeth Tavares) is up! There are so many new and exciting features will this new design, including:

• dedicated pages for Reliquary, Translation, and Small Gods (forthcoming from New Issues Press), including ordering information, blurbs, reviews, and related media.
• a new Tour page with up-to-date information on upcoming readings, appearances, and lectures. (You’ll be able to find the most recent updates on the new book and new projects here on the Announcements section of the Tour page.)
• a Publications page with updated links to all work available online.
• an Instruction page with links for my new classes at the Blackbird Studio for Writers in Portland, OR, along with information on private manuscript consultations.

Keep an eye out over these next few months for updates on more readings, visits, and updates on Small Gods, including a cover reveal sometime this coming fall! In addition, links are up (at the top of each page) for following me on Twitter, Facebook, and contacting me via email.

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2016

In other news, I’m excited to say that I will be at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference this summer, starting on August 9th, as the Stanley P. Young Fellow in Poetry and assisting A. Van Jordan in his workshop.

It should be a wonderful conference, with readings by so many talented writers over the course of the ten days. If you’re in the Middlebury, VT area, considering stopping by for a lecture or a reading!

Tags: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, A. Van Jordan, Reliquary, Small Gods, Translation, New Issues Press, Stanley P. Young, Middlebury, Vermont, Blackbird Studio for Writers

#AWP2014 is almost here! The excitement builds as the money slowly bleeds away.

I'll be in Seattle this year representing the University of Illinois and Ninth Letter Online, which I'm editing this semester. Should be a wonderful time!

Also, I'll be signing chapbooks at the Accents Publishing Table (AA3) between 12-1pm on Friday, February 28th. Please come by and say hi!

Tags: Accents Publishing, AWP, Ninth Letter, Ninth Letter Online, Reliquary, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Seattle, Washington

Nick Ripatrazone did a wonderful interview with me about Reliquary over at The Fine Delight. Here's a brief excerpt:

That someone would see the piety in these things never occurred to me. Furthermore, that I myself might still engage with, respect and awe these ideas that seemed so far away, was amazing. I still can;t sit here and claim to be some arbitrary definition of a 'religious person,' but the book allowed me to remember what faith (and prayer) might actually be: this skin that's ever-molting; never as stationary and calm as you'd hope it to be.

You should definitely check it out!

Tags: Nick Ripatrazone, Reliquary, The Fine Delight, interview

A video of me reading from Reliquary at Stories & Beer last week:

Tags: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Stories & Beer, Reliquary, Accents Publishing

Featuring Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Haley Crigger, and Greg Pape:

Tags: Accents Publishing, Reliquary, AWP, Boston, Massachusetts, signing

Check out a new (and amazing) review of the chapbook on HTMLGIANT.

Really big thanks to Nick Ripatrazone for the close and attentive reading of the work, and the HTMLGIANT for giving the review a home.

Tags: HTMLGIANT, Nick Ripatrazone, chapbook, AWP, Reliquary

Welcome to my site!

After many months of fiddling, it's finally arrived. Be sure to check out the pages listed above. There's information about my chapbook, Reliquary, which is currently available from Accents Publishing, along with information and links about recent and forthcoming publications. You can also keep up to date on any and all upcoming readings.

Also, be sure to follow me on Twitter via the contact page.

Tags: Reliquary, chapbook, Accents Publishing