News

11.1.17 Lessons in Breathing Underwater was a finalist for the Sundress Publications open reading selection. 

10.10.17 Grayson Books nominated "Elizabeth Eckford's Walk Toward Central High School" for a Pushcart Prize. 
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10.9.17  J. Journal's Writers on Writing features my brief talk about my poem, "After Bikini Island." Read it here. 
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8.17.17 The #BlackLivesMatter poetry reader has been expanded. It's a big, weighty list of protest poems. It might  unbreak your heart.
 
2.21.17 "Elizabeth Eckford's Walk Toward Central High School" is included in the anthology Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry (Grayson Books, 2017). Order a copy here. 
 
2.2.17 "Yesterday's Bestiary for Tomorrow" is included in the Booth X anthology. Order a copy here. 

1.20.17 "A Brief History of the Leer" is included in the anthology If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Order a copy here. 

11.18.16 Midway nominated "Annie Londonderry Sells Advertising Space on Her Shirtwaist"   for a Pushcart Prize. 

11.15.16 Check out the #BlackLivesMatter Poetry Reader my students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and I have created. Read. Listen. Start somewhere. Start here. 

9.14.16  Received an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. 

9.27.15  Flyway: Journal of Literature & the Environment nominated "Mammography" for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology. ​

Readings

10.26.17 Poetry reading at Stickyz' with Jeffrey Condran, Bryan Borland, and Seth Pennington. 
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10.14.16 Poetry reading at the APA conference, Heber Springs, Arkansas. 

10.13.16 Poetry reading at the Arkansas Arts Council Poetry Fellowship Reception, 6:00 pm at the Historic Arkansas Museum. 

2.28.16  UALR Creative Writing Faculty Reading at Vino's Brewpub in Little Rock, Arkansas (3:00 PM).
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11.12.15  Poetry reading at the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Washington. ​

10.17.15  Poetry reading at APA Conference, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas.