I am proud to announce

Kestrel has nominated my poem “Why I Don’t Write Lyrics about the Frontier” for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. I am very grateful. The editors of Kestrel, Donna Long, Elizabeth Savage, and Suzanne Heagy have been very generous in publishing my work.

“Why I Don’t Write Lyrics” appears in Kestrel # 25, Fall 2010. Copies may still be available. The poem is also included in Weaving a New Eden.
Kestrel has also nominated Elaine Fowler Palencia’s short story “The Ice Cream Party.” Elaine is a friend and a fellow member of the Green River Writers, so I’m pleased that we share this honor from Kestrel.

This is my second Pushcart nomination. My first was made last year by qarrtsiluni for my poem “Relics.”

Kestrel is traditional print and academic, qarrstiluni is online and open source. Both are fine publications and I urge you all to subscribe, read, submit.

Speaking of online poetry, YB Poetry # 5, Animals has just gone live today. It contains my poem “Pterophylla camillifolia,” which is to say katydid. I had a lot of fun writing this poem and I hope you’ll have fun reading it and the rest of the YB issue. YB is also available in a Kindle version.

AND, Umbrella Volume 5, Number 1 also goes live today. It has my review of Sally Rosen Kindred’s No Eden, along with poems by Maryann Corbett, Rachel Dacus, Rose Kelleher, and others.

I love Umbrella. Be sure to check it out.

And check out too its special feature Carmine Street Metrics, with poems by R. Nemo Hill, A. E. Stallings, Molly Peacock, and Kate Bernadette Benedict herself, with many others.