This Thursday, I’ll be one of the poets reading in "The Borderlands East Reading,” a project organized by Indiana Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik.  The event will take place at Earlham College's Stout Meetinghouse at 7:00 pm, on Sept. 19, 2013 (in Richmond, Indiana).  I’ll be among some wonderful poets, including my UC colleagues Don Bogen and Jim Cummins, as well as Mark Neely, Charity Gingerich, David Baker, Shari Wagner, Daniel Bowman, Jr., Peter Bethanis, Claire McGuinness, Victor E. Krebs, Jeffrey Owen Pearson, Michael Brockley, Elsie Myers Klute, Mary Fell, JL Kato, Gosia Gabryś, and Karen Kovacik herself!  Come out for an exciting evening of poetry!

I'll be giving two readings (one in poetry and one in nonfiction) at the 2013 John R.Milton Writers' Conference at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, SD.  For time and location, visit my events page.  If you don't come to hear me, then perhaps you'll come to hear Pam Houston, Fred Arroyo, Joy Castro, or Kwame Dawes?

I'll be attending the AWP Conference in Seattle this year, and speaking on a panel on Nonfiction Craft and Criticism, titled "When a Poem Can't Tell the Whole Story: Why Poets are Taking up Nonfiction."  I'll be in conversation with Katherine Coles, Gregory Orr, Linwood Rumney, and Julia Koets on the subject.  I hope you'll plan to be there!  Location and time TBA.

Just found out that I'm one of the fifty poets in the the Montreal Prize 2013 Global Poetry Anthology, forthcoming from Véhicule Press!  My poem, "Transit," was selected from approximately 2000 poems from 70 different countries by a stellar panel of judges: Mary Dalton, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kwame Dawes, Kendel Hippolyte, Medbh McGuckian, Sean O’Brien, Michael Harris, Robyn Sarah, Nicolette Stasko, and Chase Twichell. I'm honored and wildly excited to be among so many wonderful international poets. On Sept. 23rd, the prize judge, Don Paterson, will choose one poet among the fifty who will receive the $20,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize.  Yes, I am holding my breath.