Allison Joseph has selected my poems “The Birth of Venus,” “Liminal Passage,” “Ice Storm,” and “Journal of the Plague Year,” for the 2022 Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry. The prize includes $1,000 and publication of the poems in Arts & Letters’ upcoming Fall issue.
INTERVIEW WITH BILL MCKIBBEN FOR THE NEW YORKER CLIMATE CRISIS NEWSLETTER
Dear Specimen is featured in this “Passing the Mic” segment of Bill McKibben’s weekly newsletter. Thanks for your insightful questions, Bill, and for giving me the opportunity to share some of the collection’s poems with your readers.
Finalist-2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship
My chapbook manuscript titled “Riddles of Flock & Bone” was selected by judge Patricia Smith as finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2019 Chapbook Fellowship. Out of a field of approximately 400 entrants, “Riddles of Flock & Bone” was one of her two finalist picks. I am honored to have been recognized by a poet whom I greatly admire.