— Martin Achatz, Passages North Poetry Editor
I’m grateful to Jamie Poissant, editor of The Florida Review, for publishing a newish poem of mine in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. “Upon Googling an Old Boyfriend and Finding His Obituary” is one of the poems that will be in my upcoming chapbook, Tango.
Read the poem here.
I can’t wait to share the news that my fifth poetry collection, Tango, has been accepted for publication by Kelsay Books!
The publisher seems a good fit for me, and their books are lovely. The news came during Hurricane Milton prep, so I had to read the email several times before I believed what I was seeing. Tango had been rejected seven times over the last two years, but none of that matters now.
Cue the balloons and champagne, baby!
Many thanks to Concrete Wolf and Managing Editor Lana Hechtman Ayers for choosing my collection Tango as a finalist in their annual chapbook contest. And congratulations to the winner, Jennifer Saunders, for her collection, Tumor Moon. I’ll be ordering that book for sure.
Hopefully, I’ll be dancing for joy at some book publication news of my own before long. But not the tango, and not in these shoes!
I’m happy as a clam that my poem “I Fell in Love With an Octopus” was included in Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry. Thank you to Lana Hechtman Ayers and Sierra Nelson for creating this powerful, lovely collection.
The poem first appeared in my chapbook Flame in 2012, after an experience at Sea World, way before octopuses were cool, way before they were featured and explored in documentaries and fascinating books.
Who among us would NOT fall in love with these mysterious, intelligent, curious and personable creatures from the sea?
Read the poem here.
Photo by Judy Watson Tracy
