SC state parks Artist-in-Residence Program

The South Carolina State Parks system notified me earlier this week that I've been selected for their 2010 Artist-in-Residence program. Very exciting news! My week-long residency will be at Oconee State Park, Mountain Rest, the third week in May. After living in a cabin there for the week--exploring the park and spending time writing about its flora and fauna--I'll turn in a framed poem to be hung somewhere in one of the cabins or other facility on their grounds. I was told that only one poet was selected for 2010, and I'm honored to be that poet.

Pushcart Prize nomination

The editors of Cave Wall, a literary journal of poetry and art, notified me this week that they have nominated my poem "Landmark Inn" for a Pushcart Prize. I am truly honored and grateful. The poem appeared in the fifth issue of the journal, along with poems by Christopher Buckley, J. P. Dancing Bear, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, and other poets I'm proud to be published with. Here is the table of contents of that issue, with a link to my poem:

Cave Wall, issue 5