Congratulations to the 2020 National Jewish Book Award Winners. In particular, congratulations to the winner and finalists for the Berru Poetry Award in Mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash:

 

Win­ner:

Nau­tilus and Bone

Lisa Richter

Fron­tenac House

 

Final­ists:

How to Love the World

Elvi­ra Basevich

Pank Books

 

Asy­lum: A per­son­al, his­tor­i­cal, nat­ur­al inquiry in 103 lyric sections

Jill Bialosky

Alfred A. Knopf

 

Seder

Adam Kam­mer­ling

Out-Spo­ken Press

Holiday Song

 

Thanks to Colorado Review and Furniture Press Books, in which this poem appeared.

2020 Akron Poetry Prize

Honored that my book, Lately, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Aimee Seu and the entire list of finalists and semi-finalists.

New Poems in Columbia Poetry Review

Pleased as punch to have four poems in the amazing new issue of Columbia Poetry Review. You're going to want to read the issue straight through...

New Poems in Kestrel

 Grateful to have three poems included in the new issue of Kestrel.

Here's one of them:

 

Silk Road

 

In the burnished tree

what cold branches

now stare down

and are affixed

with the last of snow

for winter’s just a metaphor

for the kind of loss

we figure on—

forgive me,

friends.

Best of the Net Nomination

Honored to have a Best of the Net Nomination from Mark Danowski's One Art 

Boston Poetry Marathon

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