First Newsletter: an August Update from MEH
My monthly (?) missive on all things MEH
Recently I’ve been yelled at to start a newsletter about what I’m up to poetically. So here it is! MEH Updates will be a (mostly) monthly newsletter about recent and upcoming events, publications, generally musings, and the like.
Could you access the same information by constantly checking in and refreshing my website multiple times a month? Of course. But I’ve been told that a newsletter sent directly to one’s inbox is an easier system for people.
I’ll do my best to keep this up monthly. But, yes, you can always check in at www.MEHPOETING.com for more regular news
(Or, your know, ask me.).
Latest News and Publications
Award News
I should start with the big news: my poem “the Banjo Player explains” was chosen by A. Van Jordan as the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize winner!
the Colored page, my first full length collection, was named a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s Shelia Margaret Motton Book Prize.
Recent Publications
My second full length collection The Third Renunciation was published by New York Quarterly Books in June. It’s a collection of theological sonnets filled with all the topics and questions you get kicked out of Sunday school for asking.
The other day a stranger asked about the dedication of this collection and I realized only a handful of people knew the connection between this book and a story published in Zone 3 about the death of one of my “grand-kids.” You can read the story here.
My a micro-chapbook (nine poems long) entitled "have you heard the one about…?,” was published by Ghost City Press as part of their 2023 Summer Series.
Because Florida just needs to stop, “when asked what skills we gained from slavery” was published by The New Verse News.
[Say Jesus were not your magic negro—] was published in New York Quarterly. This poem is a part of the series found in The Third Renunciation.
Recent Events
I had the honor will be a part of a panel at the Roxbury Poetry Festival with Quintin Collins, Imani Davis, and Sarah Kersey entitled Culture as Container: How Identities Serve as Forms for Writing. Our photogenic selves ended up in the Boston Globe.
Roxbury Poetry Festival Despite rain, tornado warnings, and biblical hail storms, I survived my poetry readings in Minneapolis
Upcoming Readings and Events
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 ~ Port Veritas (virtual reading)
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 ~ Boston Poetry Slam at The Cantab Lounge
Thursday, September 28, 2023 ~ Gloucester Writers Center
Misc.
Pre-Orders have begun for the anthology Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away from Alan Squire Press. My story (yeah, I wrote some fiction!) “It’s Exactly What You Think” will be included in these pages alongside a grip of talented writers.
