Jeff Hecker reviews Sprung in the New Orleans Review. He calls Sprung poetry of “natural endurance and strategy” and “the eye of the tiger.” Love it! Thanks, Jeff.

I have poems in the current issues of California Quarterly and Les Femme Folles and in the anthology Beverage Anthology (Pirene’s Fountain, 2012). My essay “My Sister’s Ghost” appears in the anthology After Dark: A Collection of Haunting Tales (Diversion Press, 2012). I have poems forthcoming in Silver Blade and Strange Horizons. Two poems from Sprung and three poems from First Wife are forthcoming as the feature in Poetry Magazine, Summer 2013. My review “Wishes for New Orleans: The Wishing Tomb by Amanda Autcher,” is forthcoming in the spring 2013 issue of Prairie Schooner, Spring 2013. Finally, forthcoming is the poet on poet interview “‘They Wouldn’t Be Poems If I didn’t Make Them’: A Conversation with Laura Madeline Wiseman” in Menacing Hedge by Amorak Heuy. We talk about Sprung and my forthcoming collection First Wife from Hyacinth Girl Press.

In reading news, I’ll be reading in the group holiday read at the South Mill,

Reading (poetry) in the Group Holiday Reading at Tuesdays with Writers
7 p.m., December 4, 2012
South Mill, 48th & Prescott, Lincoln, Nebraska

at Crescent Moon in February,

Reading (poetry) in Poetry at the Moon with TBA
7 p.m., February 25, 2013
Crescent Moon, 140 N 8th St #10, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508

and at a reading with an amazing poet at Indigo Bridge early in 2013. More on that soon.

Finally, I’ve received proofs on Unclose the Door my forthcoming chapbook on Matilda Fletcher.

It’s just lovely!

I hope you’re as thankful as I am this holiday season.