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  • The new issue of Pilot Light is live! It features an interview I conducted with Stacey Waite on gender, poetry, and infinite possibility. Check it out here!
  • My little love letter to Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is now available on the Memorious blog, in their Big Loves section.
  • The Fall 2011 issue of Third Coast is hot off the presses and includes “On Fallibility,” which was selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of this year’s Poetry Contest.
  • The new issue of Bellingham Review is out and about in the world. The journal features two poems from In the Human Zoo: “When the Dazzle Isn’t Gradual” (which won Bellingham Review‘s 2010 49th Parallel Poetry Award) and “Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares.”
  • Two new poems, “Call Me” and “Love Song with Condemned Building,” were just accepted by Bellingham Review. They’ll be in print in Spring 2012!
  • “The Resurrectionist’s Wife” is going to be reprinted in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012).
  • “[Saint] Genevieve” won the Robinson Jeffers Tor House 2011 Prize for Poetry! Check out the poem on their website.
  • My new book, In the Human Zoo, won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and was published by University of Utah Press in May 2011. Ask for it at your local bookseller!
  • Last fall, Ben Gardner’s Intermediate/Advanced Drawing course and the folks in my Poetry Workshop collaborated on a project entitled, “Call and Response.” One of the students involved, Molly Bochanyin, assembled a selection of the poetry and art from the exhibition, and it’s now available as a book!
  • New poems from the “[Saint]” series are forthcoming in The Pinch.