2014 publications, prizes, reviews, etc.

Much gratitude to the literary journals, anthologies, and contest sponsors that published my work over the past year, including these:

POEMS:

• North Carolina Literary Review, James Applewhite Poetry Prize -- winning poem, two finalist poems
• Magnolia Gardens poetry contest, "Garden of Romance" -- second place
• The Beasts Swallowed the Moon..., a part of The Columbia Broadside Project 
• Fall Lines, the summer issue of Jasper
• Blanket Stories, Ragged Sky Press
• The Frank Martin Review
• Kakalak 2014
• One, Jacar Press
• The Southern Review blog, Throwback Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 -- reprint of the poem "That Year"
• Qu, Queens Univ. of Charlotte MFA program

BOOK AWARD:

• Brockman-Campbell Book Award, sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society --  Honorable Mention (one of two)

ESSAY in The 2015 Poet's Market, published by Writer's Digest:

• "The Usefulness of Silence" (pretty exciting to see this called out, with two others, on the cover)

REVIEW of My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass:

• North Carolina Literary Review: "A Poem Has Happened Here," review by Fred Chappell

MY REVIEW:

• North Carolina Literary Review: "Near Matter and the Distant Stars" --  review of Coal River Road, by Kathy Ackerman, and Transcendental Telemarketer, by Beth Copeland