Tupelo Press 30/30 Project: Day #23

My twenty third poem for 30/30, “Mourning Dove” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog. This poem was inspired by the mourning dove nesting on the third floor of the building I teach in everyday. I’ve always thought of mourning doves as kind of frumpy, but there is something stoic about this one.

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Tupelo Press 30/30 Project: Day #22

My twenty second poem for 30/30, “Catacomb Saints” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog. Thank you to Emily for your support & amazing prompt! Here’s the article that inspired the poem: “Meet the Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism’s Forgotten Martyrs” by Rachel Nuwer.

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WhiskeyPaper: National Poetry Month Special

If you follow my blog, you know that I blogged about Leesa Cross Smith’s amazing first collection, Every Kiss A War. In addition to being an amazing writer herself, Leesa is also founder & editor, along with her husband Loran Smith, of the online journal WhiskeyPaper. I love everything that Leesa writes, so I was extremely flattered when she asked me for some poems to feature on the WhiskeyPaper blog for National Poetry Month.

I’m also very honored to be have my work alongside poems by Michael Dwayne Smith, who edits & publishes Mojave River Review.

Read our National Poetry Month feature here.

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