“Crowned” has been nominated for the 2016 Elgin Award 🙂 🙂 🙂

My poem “Succession” has been reprinted in Verse Envisioned, an anthology of poems from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, plus artwork inspired by twenty of the poems. I am honored to be included in the anthology, and doubly so as my poem appears on the facing page to Samuel Hazo’s wonderful poem “And the Time Is.” “Succession” first appeared in Red Rock Review.

Another acceptance from Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, this time for a Xau poem titled “Fault” 🙂

My poem “Roasted Chicken” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. The poem is about cooking with my daughter Lucy.

My poem “Blaze” has been accepted by the Concho River Review 🙂

I am delighted to report that my poem “House Hunt” has been accepted by the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. The poem is about (surprise) our house hunt and also about my daughter Lucy.

A belated Happy New Year to anyone reading this…. My poem “Micha” (a King Xau poem) has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. Also, I am happy to report that I will be one of the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review Frequent Contributors, which means that I will typically have two poems published there a month.

Looking back over 2015, I see that I wrote 106 new poems, had my first poetry book published (Crowned), and had 57 poem publications in addition to those in the book.