SPEC'S - Save The Date...

Details are in flux…but…I will be reading with the best poet in San Francisco at Spec’s on Sunday, August 9th, 2026 — 5pm - 7pm (ish, we’re poets, after all…har har har)

So if you’re in that neck of the woods (or will be) and are interested — save the date! I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say we’d love to see you there!

Heavy Feather / Mirage

A while back, Pete [of Dead Prince Books] was kind enough to send me a grip of fine questions about PSALMS and some other work in general. He put the answers together with a quick review. and now I’m jazzed to see the review and interview have found a home at HEAVY FEATHER. It’s a great venue for keeping up with some independent press scuttlebutt, hear about books, and discover books and projects. My deepest thanks to Pete and to the Heavy Feather crew for giving me a few flowers!

In other news, I about fell over when my aunt found mention of PSALMS in my college alumni magazine! MIRAGE is pretty much what I thought I was seeing — figuring the heat was getting to me! Then a work colleague mentioned seeing it as well — so I knew I wasn’t imagining things [see Page 63!]. I imagine I probably have ol’ Ben Tanzer to thank for this hustle — so if you’re after a little project PR, this is a friendly reminder that he’s often available for hire!

Anyhow — that’s what’s new here at the HQ. Hope you all are staying safe and cool out there this summer!

Coming This Fall...

This bad boy should hit the shelves sometime in late summer or early fall — and I am really jazzed to be printed alongside my nibbling, X.E. Oaks! Only UNM’s Daily Lobo and now this anthology from Casa Urraca can claim that fame (so far)!

From the announcement:
A Year of New Mexico Poetry presents a poem a day, celebrating the people, cultures, communities, landscapes, and traditions of the Land of Enchantment. This thoughtful, uplifting collection evokes the range of New Mexican life, from the poignant to the playful and from the historical to the contemporary.

If you don’t know Casa Urraca — they are absolutely worth a look — churning out NM Book Awards honorees and making a splash all over the state and the southwest. And they have good taste — selecting one of my absolute favorites for this collection. So — if a big, fat book of poems (maybe one a day?) is on your wishlist, then you could do a lot worse than checking out A YEAR OF NEW MEXICO POETRY.