
My twenty fourth poem for 30/30, “Opossum Season” is live. For more i information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.
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My twenty fourth poem for 30/30, “Opossum Season” is live. For more i information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.
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.
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.
My twenty first poem for 30/30, “Rise & Fall” 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 Nick & Katie for your support!

My twentieth poem for 30/30, “Joy” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.
My nineteenth poem for 30/30, “Spanish Moss” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.
My eighteenth poem for 30/30, “Portrait of an Oak Tree in Autumn” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blo
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.

My seventeenth poem for 30/30, “Wild Roses” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.
My sixteenth poem for 30/30, “April 13, 2015: 18th Month Scan ” is live. For more information about Tupelo Press, 30/30 & donations and incentives, please see my previous post or visit the project blog.