I’m pleased to have a poem in Mid-American Review’s 35 year anniversary issue. Read more about the poem, my cat, sleep, and other concerns in my interview on their blog here.
Review of Barely Composed by Alice Fulton
My latest review for Colorado Review:
“The title of this collection encapsulates the way these poems combine honest vulnerability with an almost unraveled, or unraveling, sense of urgency for the self and the world—as if in poetry we are only able to barely eek out the poem before the stakes shift and the poem with it, the poet trailing off behind.”
Colorado Review State of the Stats
I really enjoy making infographics, so like last year, I compiled Colorado Review’s 2014 submission statistics and put them into pretty shapes and charts. Can’t believe it’s my last year interning there!
Click here to read about our 1% acceptance rate and our lovely VIDA numbers.
5 Literary Journas for 2015
In which I recommend 5 literary journals you should read this year (other than Ruminate)
The New Poetry Editor at Ruminate Magazine
…is me! So excited to be coming on as editor after years of working alongside Ruminate. Read more about my vision here.
3 Voices
Come on out to the first reading in this year’s three voices series, which features first year poets and prose writers in our MFA/MA creative writing program at Colorado State. Flier below by yours truly. 
AIR Series
Please join Ruminate Magazine for our second installment in the AIR (artist-in-residence) series, which features
Casey Underwood and Judith Deem Dupree. 
Review of Bin Ramke’s Missing The Moon
My review of Bin Ramke’s forthcoming collection, Missing the Moon (October 2014, Omnidawn), is up at Colorado Review. Best book of poetry I’ve read in a long time.
On Being Strangers with Your Spouse
“It seems paradoxical—to revere the distance between yourself and your beloved—but this distance is what teaches us to reach rather than retreat. ”
Op-Ed: Don’t Ditch Your T.V. in My Dumpster
Check out my Op-Ed in the Coloradoan about dumpster delinquency.
Sadly they were quite link delinquent, so all of the useful recycling links embedded in the article are broken.
Here’s the main one you need for Fort Collins:
http://www.fcgov.com/recycling/centers.php
