A Few 2024 Personal Highlights: ONE ART, Community, Publications, & more

Note: I meant to publish this back when I put it together in early January and, promptly, forgot… My hope is that this says something noteworthy about my priorities.

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What is interesting about the following is that, from the looks of it, I’ve slowed down… which anyone who is paying attention knows is not the case at all. Instead, my focus has shifted rather dramatically away from seeking to platform my own work in favor of platforming the work of others which, for me, has truly been far more satisfying. Human altruism is never clearcut. So, this is not a “woe is me” post by any means.

I am looking forward to sharing a new poetry collection, Take Care to be published by Moon Tide Press later this year.

I look forward to serving the ONE ART community, the poetry community, the literary community, and the arts communities, in general, in 2025 and beyond. Idea for ways I can better do so? Please share. Some form of grant funding (angel investor?) would really help me out.

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A few highlights from this past year…

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~ ONE ART: a journal of poetry ~

ONE ART ranked #4 (in the poetry category) in Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards for 2024!

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Meet “The Fish List”— a new list ranking lit mags

ONE ART ranked #73

Full list of 1,829 lit mags here.

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ONE ART in Verse Daily:

Kim Addonizio — Eschatology

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~ My Poetry Publications ~

Rewritten Memories - Red Eft Review

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Tomorrow - Front Porch Review

Front Porch closed, sadly, when editor Glen Philips died.

I wrote a piece on substack about The Legacy of Glen Philips and Front Porch Poetics

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Featured Writer for March 2024 - East Ridge Review

Big thank-you to editor, A.R. Williams!

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Irene Toh of Red Wolf Journal republished an older poem of mine and included another poem in RWJ’s “leaflets” series.

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Tattoo - Right Hand Pointing

Cold Light - Right Hand Pointing - 20th Anniversary issue

Thank you Dale & RHP Team!

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Eye Model - MacQueen’s Quinterly

Thank you, Clare!

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Honest to God - Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

Thank you, F.J.!

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Strain - Etymology Literary Journal - Genus

Thank you, Sarina!

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‘bad anniversary’ & ‘spring coming’ - Shot Glass Journal Issue #43

Thank you, M.J.!

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The Drink - Across The Margin

Falling asleep with candles burning - Across The Margin

Thank you, Michael!

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Powder Keg - The New Verse News

Leveraged by Brain Rot - The New Verse News

Thank you, James!

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for sale

Chekhov’s gun

never fired

Mark Danowsky

MH 54.3

Haiku 2024 (Modern Haiku Press)

Thank you, Paul!

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~ Selected Articles / Essays / Blogs ~

“Please Send One to Five Poems.” How to Navigate Submission Batches (Lit Mag News)

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The Rise & Fall of Lit Mags - periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics

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Dear Lit Mags: Stop Making Submission Guidelines So Complicated (Lit Mag News)

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My History with Poetry Self-Help Guides (Verse-Virtual, February 2024)

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The 10 Best Poems to Read for National Poetry Month

(Tresha Faye Haefner’s Substack, The Poetry SalonStack)

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~ Cleaver Magazine ~

Essays I accepted for publication as Poetry Craft Essays Editor:

Rob Greene - The Devil’s Form

Henrietta Goodman - Metaphor as Seduction

Abbie Kiefer - THE GENEROUS ACT OF PUBLISHING DRAFTS: Letting Poems Exist as Iterations

Eileen Toomey - It Started with a List: CRAFTING A HELIX POEM

Note: If you’ve written a poetry craft essay please send it my way! I can also make myself available for the occasional brainstorm.

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~ Interview ~

Blue Mountain Review

Thank you, Lynne!

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~ A Look Back… ~

2023 + 2023 Wrapped

2022 + 2022 Wrapped

2021 or here + Aspirations for 2022

2020

Publications (by the numbers) – a statistical breakdown of lit mags / presses / anthologies that curated my work over the years (up to 2020)

Selected older publications up to 2016… or here

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