I'm so happy to announce Copper Nickel's new Pushcart Nominations: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Rivka Clifton, Vedran Husić, Keetje Kuipers, @luisamuradyan.bsky.social, and Matthew Neill Null!

The deadline for the Jake Adam York Prize is October 15. But we always hold the door open till OCTOBER 18 for anyone who has an emergency or problem that gets in the way. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD to any poets with a good first or second book manuscript!

Can't wait to read tomorrow (Thursday) with @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social at Basket Books in Houston! We start at 7:30. Come say hi!

Denver peeps! This is tomorrow evening (Tuesday) and will be amazing.

Copper Nickel 41 is at the printer!! Out officially on October 15.

What an incredible experience reading in the Milosz Festival in Kraków with Piotr Florczyk, who translated THE END OF CHILDHOOD AND OTHER POEMS into Polish!

This is one of the coolest things that's happened to me in my poetry life: My Selected Poems is coming out next month in Poland, and I'll be reading in the Miłosz Festival on 2 July. My deep thanks to Piotr Florczyk, Krysztof Siwczyk at Instytut Mikołowski, and Jerzy Jarniewicz!

The Copper Nickel office looking especially beautiful today. (Full disclosure: we’re just a tiny room in the basement…)

It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

And . . . I'm 49. (Feeling: awful but cheerful.)

This heartbreaking Gustave Doré is always worth a visit at the Denver Art Museum…

To get started: here's the cover of my new poetry collection, THE END OF CHILDHOOD, forthcoming in March 2025.