Events for Late Epistle

• In September 2024 I will discuss What Woman That Was at Eno Friends Meeting in Hillsborough NC.

• In June 2023 I read from What Woman That Was as part of a creative writing panel stream at the Society of Early Americanists Conference at the University of Maryland.

• In 2022 and 2023 I discussed What Woman That Was in adult forums at New Garden Friends Meeting in Greensboro, Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, and Durham Friends Meeting, as well as in two different university classes.

• In December 2022 I was the featured reader with What Woman That Was in the Well-Versed Words online reading series. A recording of the reading is available.

• In August 2022 there was a Final Thursday Press release reading for the book at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, IA.

• Late Epistle is a finalist for the 2024 da Vinci Eye award for cover art from the Eric Hoffer Awards.

• What Woman That Was was a finalist in both the poetry chapbook and narrative poetry categories in the American Book Fest’s 2023 Best Book Awards.

• I am now the semi-official poetry reviewer-at-large for North American Review. I’m a bit nervous but excited! If you have a new book, especially one that engages with the history or meaning or culture of America, feel free to let me know.

• Oden Brewing was thrilled with the successful Poetry on Tap reading and open mic I organized there in September, and it’s going to become a recurring feature, every other month of so. If you’re an NC-ish poet interested in being featured, get in touch!

• I received an Honorable Mention in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2023 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship contest; 5 out of 42 anonymous poetry submissions were recognized.

• I will be on a panel at AWP 2024 in Kansas City in February 2024 (in person or possibly Zooming in) — “How the Sausage is Made: Debut Poets on Making a First Book.” This will be my first AWP except for a handful of sessions at the 2021 virtual one.

• I’ve been invited to contribute to an anthology of contemporary poets writing about Anne Bradstreet. My early Americanist career seems to be having an interesting afterlife…. stay tuned!

• In June 2023 I attended the Society of Early Americanists Conference—my former academic home base—at the University of Maryland as part of a creative panel presenting readings of poetry engaging historical material.

• My poem “Horizons” was a finalist for the 2022 James Applewhite Poetry Prize and will appear in the Winter 2023 online edition of the North Carolina Literary Review.

• In 2022 my poem “An Origin Story” was nominated for a Pushcart by Waterwheel Review, and my poem “Border-Crosser” was nominated for a Pushcart by Poetica Magazine. “Metropolitan,” from What Woman That Was, was nominated for a Pushcart by Final Thursday Press.

• My poem “Bane,” published in ellipsis … literature and art, was co-winner of the 2022 ellipsis Prize, judged by Carolyn Forché.

• My poem “Fever” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021 by Lavender Review.

• My poem “Thicket” received an honorable mention for the Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society.