Along with the about-to-be-published Hecht Prize anthology, I'm excited to have poems in two other anthologies headed to bookstores soon. My poem, "A Blessing" -- which has nothing to do with the James Wright classic -- is included in Bigger than They Appear, an anthology of very short poems, edited by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer and available for pre-orders from Accents Publishing.

Rather than a strict line-count, the limit here is that no poem can be more than 50 words -- including the title! (This actually caused me to make one final little revision, as my poem was found to weigh in at 51 words.) 

With 316 pages of poetry by 192 poets, this collection of small poems is a big book!

Also coming soon... well, early next year anyway, which is "soon" in poetry-time: A Face to Meet the Faces, an anthology of persona poems edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, published by U of Akron Press. My poem, "Graciela and the Song of One Hundred Names," from Subject to Change, is one of the approximately 200 contemporary persona poems collected here.

It's funny, the title kept making little ripples of sonic memory in my ear, but it wasn't until I googled it for more info that I was reminded where it comes from: "Prufrock," of course!

Here's a nice excerpt from the back cover: "These poems embody characters from popular culture, history, the Bible, literature, mythology, and their diversity is reflective of the wide range of authors working in this genre. The anthology also contains brief explanatory notes written by the poets to help historicize and contextualize their characters and personae."