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Thanks to the Air Schooner Reading Series for featuring me in their first installment, in which I read poems and wax philosophical about love.

Check out my new poem, “Fishwife,” in Issue 10.1 of Redivider.

Thanks to Laura Madeline Wiseman for including my poem, “After He Breaks Her Arm,” in the powerful new anthology, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence.

Green Mountains Review published a great 25th anniversary poetry retrospective this year, in which they reprinted “To the Ghost in My Front Yard. Read editor Neil Shepard’s introduction to the issue here.

Thanks to Extract(s) for publishing two new poems, “To Chant Back the Summer” and “Wow and Flutter.” You can read them both here.

I reviewed Jane Springer’s Murder Ballad over at Phantom Limb. Let me convince you to read her book!

The amazing poet Stacey Waite interviews me about “Strange Love” on an episode of Air Schooner. Listen here.

“Intersections,” one of the poems from In the Human Zoo, is in the new issue of The Paterson Literary Review.

Find out more about Des Moines’ new literary festival, and read my poem, “The Mother, The Girl, The Mirror that Speaks,” at dsm Magazine.

Check out Kelcey Parker’s blog, where I answer some tough questions about how I became a writer.

Thanks to River Styx for kicking off Issue 87 with “The Last Time We Were Easy.”

Two new poems, “Call Me” and “Love Song with Condemned Building,” are out in the Spring 2012 issue of Bellingham Review.

Thanks to The Rumpus for including “I May Have Made Something Up” in their National Poetry Month project!

Poets & Writers Magazine asked me to offer some advice on poetry contests. I hope other poets find it useful!

“The Resurrectionist’s Wife,” a poem from The Body Is No Machine, was just reprinted in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012).

Check out two new poems–”[Saint] Euphrosyne” and “[Saint] Pharaïldis”–in the new issue of The Pinch.