Category Archives: Poetry

Last month Bone Parade released their ninth issue, which features a collection of interesting—sometimes eerie, sometimes melancholy—poems and a fun short story about a debate between a pair of trick-or-treating siblings. My poem “Familiars” closes out the issue—yay! If memory serves, I actually wrote this poem on the same afternoon I wrote “Regrowth” (Rust +Continue reading “New Poem with Bone Parade”

Every year since 1977, Bucks County has held a poet laureate contest for current residents. Past winners of the competition have come from many backgrounds and earned various other awards and professional achievements, including Guggenheims, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, and a Pew Foundation of the Arts grant. This year I was selected asContinue reading “2021 Bucks County Poet Laureate Reading”

I’m delighted to report that Rust + Moth has included my poem “Regrowth” in their Spring 2020 issue. (Make sure to check out the cover art—it’s gorgeous!) I wrote “Regrowth” about a year ago, one afternoon when I was knocked out with a fever. It’s about sympathetic magic in nature—a small taste of how IContinue reading “New Poem with Rust + Moth”