News and Events
August 22, 2024
In this election year, I thought I’d write again about the importance of centering education in the conversation about our collective future. Schooling for a Better America is on both on my website and Substack page.
February 27, 2024
The 2024 Exeter LitFest team just announced the line-up for this year’s even, April 5-6, downtown Exeter. I’ll be on a panel of poets with Kirsten Linquist and Chelsea Woodard. Keynote speaker for the event with be André Dubus III, author of nine books, including The House of Sand and Fog, a novel, and Townie, a wonderful memoir. Should be an engaging weekend all around.
February 21, 2024
Just released, my new poetry book: Emu Blis, Bums Lie, Blue-ism (Broadstone Books) — an experimental poetic examination of the notion of the sublime in the 21st Century. Looking forward to hearing what people think
January 3, 2024
I’m thrilled to have one of my poems in the new issue of The Banyan Review. A nice way to start the new year.
November 30, 2023
Nice news today. One of my poems in Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize:
April 14, 2023
A huge thanks to the folks at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH, for inviting me to read alongside poet Ralph Sneeden. It a great night all around.
March 8, 2023
Just wanted to note two pieces I wrote for Teaching While White. One is a reflection on Wendell Berry’s influential book The Hidden Wound, and the another is a shorter related piece today on writer and activist bell hooks.
February 28, 2023
A big thanks to Concision Poetry Journal and Editor Haley Lasche for posting my poem “Bending Spoons” today.
February 9, 2023
Grayson books just released a hardcover version of Adrift. The reason for two editions is that the paperback edition somehow shares an ISBN number with another, now out-of-print book. So there’s some confusion among online booksellers. Both the paperback and hardcover versions of Adrift are available. If you are looking for the paperback edition, I suggest Barnes & Noble or your local independent bookstore.
January 24, 2023
Thanks to Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art for publishing three of my poems this month — and to editors Susan Lewis, Carol Ciavonne, and Bred Sauermann for their kind words about my work.
January 6, 2023
Happy to announce the publication of my second book of poetry, Adrift (Grayson Books) — available at Grayson Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local independent bookstore.
June 8, 2022
I meant to mention earlier, I have two pieces posted — one on the question of the importance of poetry in our fractured times, “Now More Than Ever? On the Relevancy of Poetry.” The other, a short quote related to the ongoing American saga of gun violence against children, “A New Directive for America.”
June 8, 2022
I have a new poem, “Before You (By Which I Mostly Mean I) Die,” posted at The Decadent Review.
January 19, 2022
I’m back at it, writing about Shakespeare — this time on King Lear, and how the play resonates with our times a bit too clearly.
June 16, 2021
I have a new essay — Calling Out and Calling In — posted on the Teaching While White website. It’s my effort to encourage educators (and others) to balance out social-media noise with strategies for positive social change, especially regarding school policies, practices, curricula, and programs.
June 14, 2021
A poem of mine, “Yes, Who Were Those People?” was published in the Delmarva Review — a literary journal based in St. Michael’s, Maryland. Through an arrangement with the Delmarva Review, the poem was also picked up by three area newspapers. There’s something so wonderfully old-school about having the poems carried in local newspapers. Here’s one link to the poem in The Talbot Spy.
April 22, 2021
The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing, recently published two of my poems, “Day Birds at Night” and “Our Overburden.”
February 16, 2021
Marathon Literary Journal, affiliated with Arcadia University’s Creative Writing Program, published “The Frontier.”
February 1, 2021
Into the Void literary magazine published my poem “Utopia” in its Volume 18, Winter 2021.
December 30, 2020
The Hopper, a journal of environmental literature, poetry, and art, published my poem “Turnip, Pulled” as their online feature for today. Nice way to end this dispiriting year.
December 20, 2020
A poem I recently published in the Delmarva Review — “Now That I’m a Grandpa” — has been posted on some Delmarva community websites. Here's one in The Talbot Spy.
May 19, 2020
A big thanks to the team at Well Schooled for posting my article, "Celebrating Rob DeBlois and Accelerated Learning.” I’m still hoping other cities will follow UCAP’s lead and create accelerated learning programs.
June 5, 2019
Glad to see The Sovereignty of the Accidental make it on to a summer reading list. In “25 Books for Your Summer Reading,” on the Independent Ideas Blog, Richard Barbieri writes of The Sovereignty of the Accidental, “Common wisdom has it that poets flourish in youth. But Independent School’s former editor challenges that assumption with a first volume rich in every virtue poetry can command: precise descriptions, original metaphors, personal revelation, cosmic speculation, and lively wordplay.”
May 6, 2019
Three of my poems are in the latest issue of Aji Magazine.
May 1, 2019
I spent two happy weeks at the Vermont Studio Center — writing and hanging out with writers and artists. For anyone considering a residency, I highly recommend VSC.
April 9, 2019
This past weekend’s LitFest in Exeter, NH, was a joy. I appreciate the opportunity to read at Water Street Bookstore on Saturday and to attend the writers’ event at The Word Barn on Saturday night.
This week is my last week in residency at the Vermont Studio Center. It’s been a pleasure to spend so much uninterrupted time working on a second book of poetry — and to meet the other writers and artists in residence. One could get used to this life.
April 3, 2019
A good day. The ice is out on the river and I just got listed in the Poets and Writers Directory.
November 7, 2018
I deeply appreciate the write-up in the UNH Alumni magazine about The Sovereignty of the Accidental. While I mostly studied fiction writing in the UNH Writing Program, I did take a few poetry courses. Clearly, those courses made an impression on me…
November 1, 2018
Carney Sandoe & Associates just published my essay on Michel de Montaigne and education. It’s so interesting the way his views from 1575 intersect with recent brain science research.
October 15, 2018
The Fall 2018 issue of Port smith is out. Includes two of my work-related poems.
September 5, 2018
Will be reading at Water Street Books in Exeter on September 12, 2018.
August 7, 2018
I’m thrilled that two of my poems will be appearing in the Fall issue of Port smith, the new literary journal of “art, words, culture, and place,” based in Portsmouth, NH. Will be out in September.
May 10, 2018
One of my poems, "What We Live For," was just published by Aji Magazine.
May 6, 2018
Thanks to Lenora DiCerce and the folks at Vermont College of Fine Arts for inviting me up to read at their Friday night event. A good evening all around, especially reading poetry while a storm raged outside.
April 9, 2018
I appreciate the nice write-up in my local paper, The Exeter Newsletter.
March 10, 2018
I'll be reading at the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT, on March 21, 7 pm.
March, 2, 2018
Three new poems are being published by the British journal Anapest this month — “After the Blizzard,” “The Slope of Evening,” and “At Charlie Mann's All-Pro Grill.”
January 13, 2018
Just had a wonderful night reading at The Word Barn in Exeter, NH, with writers Meg Day and David Mohoney.