I’ll be reading poetry at the events listed below, courtesy of Ars Poetica Kitsap County and Arts & Humanities Bainbridge. Looking forward to meeting the artists and poets who made this happen!

• Sun., April 7 at 1:00pm – 8th Annual Ars Poetica Exhibit & Poetry Reading at Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA. (Exhibit open through April 27.)
• Sun., April 28 at 2:00pm – Poetry Corners Reading at Bainbridge Island Library. (Chapbooks will be available for purchase.)
• Sat., May 4 at 7:00pm – Ars Poetica Exhibit & Poetry Reading at Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse, Poulsbo, WA.

4Culture and the Poetry on Buses team sent me this photo of my poem, “Photosynthesis,” on display at Northgate Transit Center in Seattle. So honored to be included in this installation.

My short story “Lawrencium” was recently reprinted by the good people at Unreal Magazine. They’re looking for more stories about unusual experiences and odd creatures. You can submit to them here: http://unrealmag.com/submit/

Room Magazine is publishing “Loowit, Cowlitz: A Pentaptych” in their upcoming issue, Emergence. This piece went through several transitions before it reached its current manifestation, exploring the influences of rain, river, and mountain on human landscapes, both inner and outerwise. If you’re not already a Room subscriber, I hope you’ll give them a read.

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Writers Resist featured my prose poem “Flood, Fire, Mountain” in their 2018 anthology, and I couldn’t be more pleased! Out now, this book features a stellar cast of writers, including folks like Nikia Chaney, Alina Stefanescu, and Jonathan May, to name just a few.

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I’ve been working on a collection of short stories for the past year, and just printed out the first draft. 4 pounds and 5.5 ounces.

My “prosetry” chapbook, A Music of Ribs, was selected as a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition! I’m honored to be on this list:

https://www.blacklawrence.com/spring-2018-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/

My short story, “Lawrencium,” was featured in Longshot Island‘s newsletter. You can check it out here: https://preview.mailerlite.com/s3h6k6/967682147622064506/n9z0/

Mink River by Brian Doyle

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It’s been awhile since I read a novel so evocative and lyrical. The plot unfolds as naturally as breathing. Everything in the world of Neawanaka, Oregon is an essential part of the story: the places, people, animals, the river and the sea, the rain and the trees. All five senses are fully engaged and emotionally aware, with an effect not unlike reading Virginia Woolf or Bruno Schulz for the first time. While some stream-of-consciousness prose tends to distance the reader from the characters, or tends to focus primarily on one character, Doyle manages the opposite; the depths of everyone and everything are interconnected and illuminated. I only regret that I discovered this book a full year after Doyle’s passing. I would have loved to ask him about the process of writing Mink River.

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Longshot Island just published my slipstream story, “Lawrencium.” It’s about a giant jellyfish that invades a Canadian town. You can read it here: http://www.longshotisland.com/2018/08/20/lawrencium/