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The final of my miniMag poems in now available in Issue 104. You can read it here , beginning on page 10. Thank you to miniMag for being a great home for so much of my recent work.

Now out in Millennial Pulp , Volume 4, available exclusively in print. You can purchase a copy here . Here is a taste of the poem: Re: Little Green Men The morning that the news breaks out and all the talking heads announce, they’re real, they’re here, they’re among us...

The second of my miniMag poems, "Something's Rotten in the State of Oz" is now out. You can read it here on page ten.

My Poem, "Parade [Art Installations]" is now available to read in miniMag Issue 101. I will have a few more pieces coming out with miniMag in the coming weeks, so be sure to look out for those. You can read the poem, which appears on page 2 of the issue, here. I've included an excerpt below. Parade [Art Installations] The wind is over-strong and so balloons are left half-inflated— Snoopy’s nose caves in, and his paw drags feebly along the pavement. On either side: bodies pack in, retained by frosty rent-a-fence. [ Imagine an installation: a wide wall painted black, a grid of porcelain noses affixed, as if cold bodies are ghosting through the wall, but only make it nose-far before their magic’s spent...

Exomorphosis, the 2024 edition of Havik, which features my poem, "Cyberpunk Protagonist," is now available. A print copy can be purchased here, while the collection can be read in digital format here. "Cyberpunk Protagonist" appears on page 243.

The 2024 edition of the Clackamas Literary Review is now available for purchase! My poem, "It Still Comes To Mind," is featured in the collection. You can purchase the edition here. I may or may not post "It Still Comes To Mind," here on the website at some point, but I've decided to keep it exclusive to the collection for now, other than a small sample you can read below. It Still Comes To Mind Dad had cried at the makeshift Holocaust museum that our eighth-grade class had made. It was comprised, mostly, of diaries: imagined artifacts, once held by hands whose youth, whose hopes, whose warmth had been too brief...

I am excited to announce that the inaugural issue of the Quibble Quarterly, dubbed "Ripple," is now available in print! You can buy the issue here, or subscribe to the quarterly here at a discounted rate. My poem, "Triptych: Squashed Bird on Driveway," is included in the collection alongside other great writing and art from over fifty contributors. Additionally, be on the lookout for new poetry forthcoming in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Prairie Home Magazine, Symphonies of Imagination, and Pittsburgh's own Oakland Review. I've now cleared thirty poems (!) accepted for publication in over a dozen outlets - I am very grateful to the editors and readers who have supported my work.

I'm very glad to be a part of new literary magazine Prairie Home's second ever issue, in which my poem "After" is featured. Read it here.

My poem, "When Lovely Words Will Not Appear," a kind of ode to writer's block, is now published in Uppagus Issue 62. You can read the full poem here. When Lovely Words Will Not Appear They are not in the fragile rim Of that white, porcelain vase Placed, to beautify the foyer, Atop the claw foot table there...

I recently came across the Origami Poems Project and was inspired to make use of their format for "micro-chapbooks" that can be printed on standard letter paper and folded origami-style into a miniature book. For my own microchap, I decided to feature a selection of my jazz haiku, several of which are featured in Jerry Jazz Musician's 2024 Jazz Haiku Collection, alongside some never before seen additions (thank you again to Jerry Jazz Musician for supporting my work). If you are interested in printing out a copy for yourself, you can find a pdf at the bottom of this post. Instructions for folding can be found here. Additionally, I plan on littering (in the legal sense) some copies around Pittsburgh, so be on the lookout if you are a fellow yinzer!

I'm excited to announce that a recent poem of mine, "Silicon Valley Ghazal," was featured today on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily. Subscribing to Autumn Sky's mailing list is a great way to start each day with compelling writing, so I'd definitely recommend doing so! The ghazal is a rather ancient poetic form originating in seventh century Arabic poetry, although it is often associated with the great Persian poets, such as Hafez. The form is comprised of couplets, each being a complete statement or idea. The form also includes a complicated rhyme scheme, where a "refrain" word is repeated at the end of each couplet, preceded by the rhyme (in my poem, for example, "old machinery," "cold machinery," "household machinery"). The ghazal began to gain prominence in english poetry in the mid 20th century, beginning with attempts to translate the form that forwent many of of its structural requirements (see "bastard ghazals"). The english language ghazal found more solid footing in 90s, although it apparently remains fairly common to ignore some requirements. With this in mind, I wanted to do my best to stay true to the form, with one exception: the classical ghazal takes up themes of love, eroticism, longing, loss, and the spiritual or mystical dimension these notions encompass, but in my case I utilize the form somewhat ironically to comment on our contemporary reliance and addiction to technology. You can read the full poem here. Silicon Valley Ghazal An endoskeleton draped in steak’s outdated, old machinery. Your flesh will fail—why not live on as sterile, cold machinery? You think an android maid is just some gimmick that’ll come and go? You’ll wonder how you went without this key household machinery...

I've gotten some good news regarding accepted poems over the past week or so, so I thought I'd collect all the updates in a single post. "Re: Little Green Men," a piece I wrote in response to the UFO/UAP fever that has gripped popular culture and discourse over the past couple of years (did you notice how many superbowl ads featured aliens?), is forthcoming in Millennial Pulp, Volume 4 in the spring or summer of this year. I will provide another update when the publishing date is finalized. This publication is exclusively available in print, so I am planning to post the full poem here on the blog once the issue has been out for a while. "It Still Comes To Mind," a poem about my experience participating in my middle school's annual "Holocaust Museum" capstone project for the eight grade, is forthcoming in the Clackamas Literary Review in early May. This will also be a print exclusive. "Parade [Art Installations]," "Something's Rotten in the State of Oz," and "Join our Club," will be out in miniMag, Issues 101, 102, and 104, respectively, in June. Finally, a reminder that "When Lovely Words Will Not Appear" will be out in Uppagus in May and that the print version of Quibble Quarterly, Volume 1, in which my poem "Triptych: Squashed Bird on Driveway" is featured, will be available in late March.