Locomotive Cathedral (poems) March 2025 from @BackwatersPres @UnivNebPress and Best American Poetry 2024. Work in @32_Poems @SouthernHReview @conduitmagazine
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Congrats to the 2026 swamp pink Prize Winners!
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The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1. This year's contest is judged by Diane Seuss, the author of six books of poetry, including MODERN POETRY (2024) and FRANK: SONNETS (2021). wp.me/p4J9AE-j87
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One of my all time favorite journals. Happy to be among this issueās contributors
Our Vol. 42 No. 1 & 2 Winter and Spring 2026 issue is out in the world. New work from @RosebudBenOni, @mashawrites, Debbie Urbanski, Catherine Kim, @LucasLJorgensen, @MCzyzniejewski, @BFdeB, Tom Kizzia, Lauren Camp, and many more. Get your copy here:
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18 Jun 2025
"LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL speaks to the tension between my desire for stillness/eternity and the unstoppable propulsion of change," says @BFdeB in an interview with @TupeloQ.
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25 Jun 2025
In LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL @BFdeB builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth.
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17 Jun 2025
It was always
an empty bottle.
We were always
the dark.
Ardor is still
random and dizzy
and someone turns
the lights on
and the room
without the bottle
keeps spinning.
āAndrea Cohen, āSpinning the Bottleā @DiodeEditions @FourWayBooks diodepoetry.com/cohen_andreaā¦
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21 May 2025
Tuesday, May 27, at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD at 7 pm. I'll be reading and in-conversation with two highly acclaimed poets: Jennifer Martelli from MA and Subhaga Crystal Bacon. writer.org/event/bacon-francā¦
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16 Apr 2025
My newest poetry collection, MONSTER GALAXY, releases April 30th (MoonPath Press)! Preorders at Bookshop.org are discounted!
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4 Apr 2025
We are hosting SIX, count 'em, SIX amazing readers to celebrate National Poetry Month. Register at the link to hear these poets!
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15 Jan 2025
Can you please share this call for submissions? I'm so excited about our next theme and the forthcoming issue! š„°
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South 85, the official, faculty-edited journal of the Converse University low-res MFA program, is open! Our smart & eager team will read your work with care. $100 Editor's Choice Award for ONE published piece & we nominate for prizes. (Please share)
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.@BFdeB's LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL was included in @PublishersWkly's Spring 2025 Poetry Preview! Wide-ranging in their subjects and sensibilities, these collections [serve] as reminders of what poetry can offer its readers in uncertain times.
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