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MAXSpeaks 2019 Youth Poetry Slam

25/4/2019

 
This year's The MAX (Mississippi's Arts + Entertainment Experience) Youth Poetry Contest + Slam in Meridian, MS, was a truly wonderful event. High schoolers in Mississippi are writing some amazing poems, and it was an honor to hear them in person. Thank you to Antavia Mason for organizing the event and inviting me to serve as a judge. If you couldn't make it, you can watch some of the performers on The MAX's Facebook page. 

AWP 2019 Offsite Reading in Portland

16/3/2019

 
This year's AWP approaches, and I'm grateful to be reading alongside Samar Fitzgerald, Cade Leebron, David Mura, Gale Marie Thompson, Kathleen Winter, and others at "An Evening with Witness & American Literary Review." This offsite event is happening in Portland on Friday, March 29th, from 8:00-10:00 PM at Paddy's Bar & Grill. More details can be found on the Facebook event page. 
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Image from American Literary Review's Facebook

"Florida Orange" on Poetry Daily

22/2/2019

 
The great folks at Poetry Daily chose my poem "Florida Orange" (originally published in Shenandoah) as today's Featured Poem. All my thanks to the Poetry Daily team for sharing my work, as well as Shenandoah for first publishing the piece. Read "Florida Orange" on Poetry Daily here. 
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Image from Poetry Daily's Instagram (@poetrydaily365)

Hattiesburg Writers' Workshop

25/1/2019

 
Next week I have the privilege of leading a community workshop for the Hattiesburg Writers' Workshop. Sponsored by the Hattiesburg Arts Council, the Writers' Workshop course meets for six sessions, each focusing on a different element of craft. For this session, which meets on January 28th at 6:00 PM, poet Todd Osborne and I will lecture on structure across genres by looking at poems and stories by Claudia Emerson, Agha Shahid Ali, Tobias Wolff, and others. Visit the Writers' Workshop event page for more information about the course. 

Jet Fuel Review Best of the Net Nomination

18/9/2018

 
So grateful to the Jet Fuel Review team for nominating "Return to the Queue" (published in their spring 2018 issue) for this year's Best of the Net anthology. It has been such a pleasure appearing in their pages and experiencing firsthand the care with which they treat their authors. See the official announcement for a list of nominees in all genres. 

Mississippi Book Festival

21/8/2018

 
Thankful for the opportunity to lead a workshop for young writers at this year's Mississippi Book Festival with my Center for Writers colleagues. In just one hour, these creative young people completed an invention exercise, discussed a model flash fiction story, and wrote their own strong drafts! Literary talent continues to thrive in Mississippi. 
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Photo from USM English's Facebook

Featured Author at Jet Fuel Review

8/7/2018

 
All my thanks to the wonderful editors at Jet Fuel Review for choosing my poems for their July/August Features. Grateful to be featured alongside such wonderful artists and authors, including Emari DiGiorgio and Raeleen Kao! 
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Image courtesy of Jet Fuel Review

Community of Writers Poetry Workshop 2018

2/7/2018

 
I had the most wonderful time at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley's Poetry Workshop this year! Seven days, seven poems, seventy-two talented participants, six generous faculty members, six craft talks, four (?) nature excursions, and one trip to the beautiful Lake Tahoe =  one of the most enriching poetry gatherings of my life. So thankful to have participated in this humbling and uplifting week!
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View from High Camp
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Bob Hass
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Lake Tahoe

American Literature Association 2018

31/5/2018

 
Grateful to have participated in the panel 'Untimely Regions: Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida' alongside Luis Iglesias, Antonio Ló​pez, and Cris Hollingsworth at this year's American Literature Association conference in San Francisco. 
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Image courtesy of the USM English Facebook page

Fairhope Conference 2018

8/4/2018

 
Spent the weekend enjoying readings and listening to pedagogy discussions at the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers' annual conference in Fairhope, AL. It was a pleasure to read alongside so many Gulf Coast writers, especially my past and present Center for Writers cohort. A big thank you to GCACWT's president, wonderful poet and person Katie Riegel, for organizing such a wonderful event. 
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Past & present Center for Writers students: Chad Foret, Anastasia Stelse, me, Todd Osborne, Tom Holmes, and Drew Jordan
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Photo courtesy of Todd Osborne
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