Eryn Green Reviews Indian Summer Recycling at Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics

 "Certainty in these poems is recognized as a violence, and one with a quiver of attendant dangers, like oppression, delusions of grandeur and of superiority, and the profound poetic risk of not seeing the ever-shifting world, with all its joys and sorrows, that is always in front of you, and never standing still."

HUGE thanks to Eryn Green for his incredibly generous, tender reading of Indian Summer Recycling (the magnificent field, 2019) that begins with and returns to Emerson's "Circles," an essay that Kirsten and I incorporated into our wedding vows.

Thanks kindly to all the folks at Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics!

Evan Gray reviews Indian Summer Recycling for DIAGRAM

 "Death, dying, decaying is a generative, natural process in Indian Summer Recycling. This requires a new perspective, one that constantly needs reframing.How we each ache and long to be put to rest in ways similar to the 'Spent firework in the grass' that 'must have been some pretty thing.' How we long to become 'Micronutrients from decomposers' that are small but necessary to lifeforms, like the 'Hatchling insects' which 'obscure the clarity of the riverbed,'" etc.

So grateful for Evan Gray's tender and enthusiastic response to Indian Summer Recycling (The Magnificent Field, 2019)--much of which was written nearby Evan's hometown, Jefferson, NC--in the new issue of DIAGRAM! So glad to be caught up in echoes with so many friends there: Kathryn Cowles, Christopher Patton, Adam Tedesco, Shira Dentz.

James Knippen reviews Indian Summer Recycling for Tarpaulin Sky

 “These poems call us to reflect on how our lives impact and are impacted by nature in ways we don’t typically think about, even as our attention and our memories are composted by a living, moving world, constantly recycling itself.”

Dang! I’m so grateful for James Knippen’s incredibly generous, holistic, and insightful take on Indian Summer Recycling for Tarpaulin Sky. It keys into so many attentions that were central to way these poems happened/happen to be speaking to each other.

Salt Lake City Art

 Mightily glad for another go-round with Salt Lake City Art during quarantine this spring. 

Hope you’re well, hunkered down in the nest with all your sweethearts.

Thanks kindly to Joel Long and City Arts for having me! Shout-outs to Jen Tynes, horse less press/ The Magnificent Field . “Dog Creek” is for Kirk Keen.