A Year-Old Sestina and Other Goodies

Editors, this is why you have to make sure you have sent acceptance letters out, and writers, this is why you have to make sure your spam settings can let them through. I just found out through a casual search on Google, that I had some poems published in Troubadour 21, over a year ago. Well, better late than never, and Troubadour 21, thank you for the acceptance! Another birthday present!

Note: Sestina Karbala 5 is named for a battle of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

Yes, I'm in Yes, Poetry

Read two poems of mine in the latest issue of Yes, Poetry. The first one is an updated attempt at a troubadour poem, taken from my poetry collection "The Contemporary Wing." If anyone is wondering what a sommelier is, well, look it up. See, you always learn something new at Lo Specchio e La Spugna.