2025 Recap

The focus, here, is going to be on personal and professional accomplishments. Much of this, as many know, is interwoven with my literary stewardship, specifically with regards to ONE ART and Cleaver Magazine.

While this might look like a lot, it’s notable that I published much less of my own work in 2025. I have also submitted much less. There’s a longer conversation to be had about these matters. To be clear, I’m not complaining. It’s mostly a matter of how I allocate my time, attention, energy, bandwidth.

Please feel free to use this structure as a tool to keep track of your own goings on over the course of 2026 (and moving forward). I have a Writer’s CV (but that’s more selective). Keeping records is useful as a reminder of what you’ve been doing, seeing progress/direction/changes over time, and also so it’s easier to gather materials when someone asks. I’m including things I didn’t do, in part to show my work and reveal that I’m not doing everything… because no one can do everything. Wise people have said that everything you say “yes” to means you’re saying “no” to a whole lot of other possibilities. It’s easy to forget this.

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~ ONE ART: a journal of poetry ~

‘The 2025 Best Lit Mag Awards: By the Numbers’ (Chill Subs)

‘Great Editor(s) - Best Lit Mags of 2025’ (CS)

“Out of 7,067 votes, these lit mags came out on top in 2025 as having the best lit mags editors around.”

‘Great Editor(s) - Best Lit Mags of 2025’

1. ONLY POEMS

2. After Dinner Conversation

3. MER - Mom Egg Review

4. Fiction on the Web

5. ONE ART: a journal of poetry

6. SWING

7. Feel the Holy

8. Tint Journal

9. Frazzled Lit

10. SmokeLong Quarterly

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ONE ART Poems in Verse Daily

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~ Cleaver Magazine: Essays Curated as Poetry Craft Essays Editor ~

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo - How to Write a Love Poem

Heidi Seaborn - Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times

Note: Heidi Seaborn’s poem ‘Take Five’ (referenced in the craft essay) was first published in ONE ART

Michele Battiste - Other Wisdoms: The Divinatory Potential of Poetry

Matthew W. Baker - Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line

Bunkong Tuon - On Writing “What Is Left” and How a Poem Remembers and Speaks

Elizabeth Galoozis - There’s No Cheating in Poetry

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~ Stay Curious ~

Guest Post: Why You Need a Beta Readers and How to Find the Right One(s) for You by Tresha Faye Haefner

Guest Post: Submission Fees and Their Discontents by Marc Alan Di Martino

Balancing Act: The Realities of Running a Literary Journal without Submission Fees

Erika Dreifus - Finds for Writers #246

Lit Mag News (Becky Tuch) - The Way You Make Lit Mags Feel!

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~ Personal Publications ~

Much gratitude to Michael Simms for curating my poem ‘The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge‘ in Vox Populi. This poem first appeared in Gargoyle Magazine #65 (Thanks, Richard!), and Marjorie Maddox previously selected it for The Poetry Moment.

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My notes from earlier in 2025…

Poetry Moment: ‘The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge’, by Mark Danowsky (WPSU)

So, this is something that feels really cool.

Today, a poem of mine is featured on public radio thanks to Marjorie Maddox.

First time having the experience of a poem of mine being read and shared in this manner.

Shout-out to Richard Peabody (Editor of Gargoyle Magazine) where this poem first appeared, in 2016.

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Our Most Vulnerable - Live Nude Poems - 10.20.25

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Telephone (game) developed and directed by Nathan Langston.

I wrote an ekphrastic poem -- ‘Hawk in the Shadow of a Sycamore’.

Really cool to see how this came together as a global effort.

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Limerence - Sheila-Na-Gig - Volume 10.1, Fall 2025

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Satellites - The Summerset Review - Fall 2025 issue

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Bully Pulpit - The New Verse News - 9.12.25

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Moves - Eunoia Review - 9.2.25

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On All The Time - Mobius: The Journal of Social Change - Vol. 36, No. 3 - August 2025

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3 haiku - The Haiku Shack - Issue 3

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yellow cardinal —

dust of a million

red feathers in the wind

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good news

no weather today

except full sun

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each day

I rewrite the book

of myself

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‘Disappear’ published in The New Verse News - 6.27.25

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published in Under the Bashō (UtB) on 5.24.25

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daily walk

bruised magnolia petals

a temporary carpet

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“hospital tiling” Modern Haiku - Issue 56:3

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hospital tiling

I’d love it

in my kitchen

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Issue #110 of Failed Haiku (a journal of senryu)

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I side eye

the full moon

as if it knows

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a rock thrown

at a poet

hits a therapist

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a friend returns to the pond with no name

published by whiptail: journal of the single-line poem

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~ Personal Essays ~

My Personal Favorite with Mark Danowsky (Kelly Fordon’s Substack) - 11.2.25

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~ Collaborative Projects ~

My poem for Telephone -- ‘Hawk in the Shadow of a Sycamore’

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~ Photography ~

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~ Poetry Chapbook ~

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~ Poetry Collection ~

Take Care (Moon Tide Press)

~ Awards / Grants ~

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~ Interviews ~

Moon Beams interview with Greg Lehman

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4/24/25 - Webinar - Class Visit with Mark Danowsky (Authors Publish). Shared three ONE ART poems and thoughts on my decision to publish them. Took questions in an AMA style format. Shared two of my own poems for educational purposes.

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9.21.25 - Editor’s Panel / AMA

Editor’s Panel with Constance Brewer, Mark Danowsky and Hayley Mitchell Haugen

for The Poetry Salon

Hosted by Tresha Faye Haefner

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~ Featured Readings ~

9.14.25 - Cleaver Magazine Editors / Workshop Leaders / Staff Reading (13 Featured Readers)

Cleaver Faculty Reading 2025

A multi-genre reading

You can hear my poetry reading ~33 minutes in

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~ Professional Development ~

Frostburg IndieLit Festival, September 2025

Co-Hosted a workshop with Jennifer Sutherland entitled ‘What Work Is: Writers on Labor and Injustice’, Sept. 27, 2025

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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Featured Reader for Palace Poetry Group (book club)

Host: Linda Griggs & Martin Willitts Jr.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Rosemont College Writer’s Retreat

Panelist – “Path to Publication”

Panelists: Grant Clauser, Mark Danowsky, Liz Abrams-Morley, Jerry Wemple

Host: Carla Spataro

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Sun 7/27/25 - Keystone Poets x Moonstone Arts (Virtual Event)

Featured Reader

Host: Larry Robin

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Tuesday June 17, 2025

Keystone Poets Reading

Featured Reader

Free Library of Philadelphia

Hosts: J.C. Todd & Amy Small-McKinney

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4/24/25 - Webinar - Class Visit with Mark Danowsky (Authors Publish). Shared three ONE ART poems and thoughts on my decision to publish them. Took questions in an AMA style format. Shared two of my own poems for educational purposes.

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~ Blurbs ~

Jane Edna Mohler’s poetry collection ‘Autumn Clears’

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~ Reviews ~

Review of ‘Take Care’ by Brian Fanelli in The Pedestal Magazine (Pedestal’s final issue)

Review of Take Care by Sean Hanrahan for Mad Poets (10.22.25)

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~ Acknowledgments / Publicity ~

ONE ART poems by Joseph Fasano in The Guardian

Philly Chapbook Review - Take Care mention

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~ New Positions ~

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