“Good Advice (IX)” is now available in the newest issue of Gigantic Sequins. Thanks to the editors and fellow contributors for such a great issue!

Four excerpts from “Good Advice” — IV, VII, VIII, and XII — are forthcoming in Spittoon Magazine, 3.1. Thanks to the editors for giving these excerpts a great home!

“Good Advice (IX)” will appear in issue 4.1 of Gigantic Sequins.

“Good Advice” (VI) is forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of decomP magazinE.

“Poem for Talking Dirt” is in the Spring 2012 issue of The Adroit Journal, with a substantial portion of the sales proceeds going toward the Acumen Fund, which has a mission of making it so that “one day every human being will have access to the critical goods and services they need – including affordable health, water, housing, energy, agricultural inputs and services – so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and unleash their full human potential.”

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I’m very excited to be here with the following writers:

Carmen Adamucci, Susan Aizenberg, Carmen Karin Aldrey, Joel Allegretti, Félix Anesio, Alanna Belak, Justin Belote, Melanie Browne, John F. Buckley, Devon Code, Tasha Cotter, Belkis Cuza-Malé, Rene Dayre, Mark DeCarteret, Alexa Derman, Teresa Dovalpage, Antony Dunn, Orlando Ferrand, Ruth Foley, Adam Gallari, Garth Greenwell, Stephanie Guo, Michael S. Harper, Ernesto Fundora Hernández, Jane Hertenstein, Chloe Honum, Shannon Hozinec, Bryana Johnson, Noah Kim, Andrew Kozma, Shae Krispinsky, Kristin LaTour, Robert Laughlin, Mercedes Lawry, Sydney Lea, Peter Makuck, Rose Miles, John Minczeski, Jacob Oet, Melina Papadopoulos, Noel Quiñones, Rose Richard, Liz Robbins, Tom Sheehan, Ed Skoog, Virginia Slachman, Elena Tamargo, Caitlin Thomson, Matthew Thorburn, Madeline Vardell, Jeremy Voigt, Philip Walford, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Abraham Younes, and Michael T. Young.

Four excerpts from a book-length poem I’m working on called “Rape Envy” — [The times a breath becomes a burn and circus, O,]; [I wanted to invade]; [Let’s pretend for a moment]; and [I wanted to make a double-helix in your mouth and unravel it.] — are forthcoming in Paper Darts.

Three excerpts from “Good Advice” — [Make promises you can’t keep.], [When you finish a writing sentence, the end is nearer to you than when you first started composing it.], and [Sometimes, Southpaw, a wren shits on your windshield and you fall in love] — are forthcoming in burntdistrict.