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New Review on The Scrapper Poet
Thank you Karen Weyant for making Mud Cakes the February Poetry Pick for The Scrapper Poet. I am touched by the selection and your very generous review! A professor at Jamestown Community College in New York, Weyant’s first chapbook, Stealing … Continue reading
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Fateful Phone Calls and Spring Training
Thank you Melissa Reeser Poulin for your wonderful write up for Bespoke Truckee on my experience publishing with Bona Fide Books! It’s little loving gestures like these that help keep the world of small press literature alive and well. And … Continue reading
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Winter Reading
A major congratulations to fellow Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize winner Lexa Hillyer, whose first book of poems, Acquainted with the Cold, is now available from Bona Fide Books. Jeanne Marie Beaumont says the “greatest gift of this book is … Continue reading
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Sending My Little Ones Off to School
Two poems from Mud Cakes have been selected for inclusion in several forthcoming textbooks. I just signed an agreement for “Amelia Avenue” to appear in Welcome to My World: A Writing Course. Co-authored by Theresa Malphrus Welford and Martha C. … Continue reading
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Farewell to a Friend
This week I am saddened to say goodbye to Karen Blomain, novelist, poet, playwright, friend, mentor. I first met Karen as an undergrad at Kutztown University in 1994 soon after I decided to major in Creative Writing. I was immediately … Continue reading
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Forecast Calls for Human Rain Delay
Just got word that Sport Literate will publish my new poem, “Early Exit,” later this year. It’s my tribute to former Indians First Baseman Mike Hargrove, my favorite player from the “bad old days” of ’80s baseball in Cleveland and … Continue reading
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Memory LINKS
For a chronological listing of news stories, reviews, video links and other online resources for Mud Cakes and other publications, please check out the new and improved LINKS tab on this site! My thanks to my Web designer, James “Garfield” … Continue reading
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All His Life has He Looked away… to the Future, to the Horizon
Okay. I’m ready to retire. Ride off into the twin sunsets! I’ve been linked to YodaTV. My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
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Stories for the Throne
It’s here: Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction! It’s an anthology of 88 “short short” stories and includes one of my pieces, “For Wile E. Coyotoe, Apetitius Giganticus“, which originally appeared, in a different form, in the Green Mountains … Continue reading
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Good News out of Paterson
Mud Cakes has been chosen as a Finalist for the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize. The winner of this year’s prize is Dorriane Laux for her book, The Book of Men. To commemorate the winner and finalists, the Poetry Center will … Continue reading
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