Pages 35-37 from my graphic novel How Capitalism Did End appear in issue number five of this independent journal. The issue is specifically designed to be read on smartphones. A nearly free copy can be ordered by following the link below.
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General updates from my writing life.
NEW WORK IN ECOTONE
Pages 21-24 from Make—a graphic poetic sequence exploring the reality of “the page under the page”—will soon be featured by Ecotone, the literary magazine dedicated to reimagining place. To learn more about the magazine follow the link below:
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NOVEL EXCERPT IN THE GEORGIA REVIEW
The entirety of Chapter 7 from it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in the winter 2022 print issue of The Georgia Review.
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NEW WORK IN INVERTED SYNTAX
Four pages from a book-length project The Extravagant Art of Seeing: Thoughts While Tearing Up a Novel Late One Night (an essay enacted) can be found in print issue four of Inverted Syntax.
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NEW WORK IN POSIT
Pages 33-40 from Make—a graphic poetic sequence exploring the reality of “the page under the page”—have just been published in issue 31 of Posit. The Editor’s Note features a small acute essay about each included work. To explore this independent online journal follow the link below:
HOMAGE TO ROCHELLE A. MURRAY
From 1968 until July 31, 2022, I had one librarian.
At the start, when I was five, racing into the Davenport Public Library weekly, the overdue fines piled up fast. But Miss. Murray never refused to check out a book to me. She kept a quiet tally, trusting someday I would settle up.
More than fifty years later, she was still on the job, aiding research involved in writing projects, sending me notes like this:
“The Special Collections Department had the enclosed information I thought you would like to have.”
Rochelle played an important role in the local writing community that offered me a safe and inspiring haven when I had no other hopeful place to go as a troubled teenager in Urban Iowa. She was a staunch advocate of literacy, a gentle warrior the world is weaker without.
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NOVEL EXCERPT IN NORTHWEST REVIEW
An excerpt from Chapter 7 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in this venerable print journal out of the University of Oregon.
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WYSO BOOK NOOK INTERVIEW
Recently I had a wide-ranging conversation addressing various literary projects with Vick Mickunas, host of the NPR author interview show Book Nook.
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Click this link to access a related review of Full of Hunger and Full of Bread: The World of Jura Soyfer 1912-1939
ESSAY IN NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
“The Sweet Science of Socks”—an extended meditation on the craft of marriage—appears in the Summer 2022 issue of New England Review.
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NEW WORK IN NEW NOTE POETRY
Pages 59-62 from Make—a graphic poetic sequence exploring the reality of “the page under the page”—appear in the spring 2022 issue of New Note Poetry, an independent journal. To read the issue follow the link below.
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