Welcome & Happy SUmmer!

Even though technically it's springtime, those of us who teach leap early into summer.  Please feel free to be in touch via the contact page listed to the left.  

New Publishing News

5/11 "The Elixir," a poem I wrote very recently, was accepted by The Silver Blade for next month's issue.  They'd like me to record an MP3 of it for their website... hmm... don't know about that!

5/9 "Night Journeys in a Cardboard Boat," a poem, has been accepted by Third Wednesday and will appear in their upcoming issue. 

4/28 "Enraptured in East Tennessee," a non-fiction piece, has been accepted by the prestigious Punchnel's.  Coming out this summer!

4/27 "Passing Into Shadow," a short story, has been short-listed by Penumbra... Fingers crossed for me, please!

4/21 My short story "Hounded Grey Stop" has been accepted by Bewildering Stories. It'll be out in the next five weeks.  

4/11 EHS just accepted the poem "Poseidon Night" for their Summer Solstice 2013 issue! 

4/9 "Mathematical Emo," a poem, was accepted today by Barely South Review for the September issue!

3/29 "Nightly Drowning" was accepted by OCEAN Magazine, to appear in the Summer 2013 issue.

3/25 "Salt N Pepper: Shut Ya Mouth" accepted by Alimentum Journal & published: www.alimentumjournal.com/featurettes

3/24 “Five Things" accepted by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, to be published in the coming months.

3/18 "Uncles in Jail" accepted by Poetic Story/KY Story for their anthology: available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Story-anthology-misc-authors/dp/1482395290/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365013811&sr=8-1&keywords=%22poetic+story%22

RECENT Appearances

I presented at the 15th Annual John Gardner Conference in Batavia, New York, on 4/13. For the Batavia News Article, Click on the link to the left.  The photo below was taken by my dear friend Helen Maier and shows me at the "Gardner Bench" outside of the Pok-A-Dot in Batavia.