My essay, "A Life Imagined," appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. I'm grateful to editor Kevin Larimer for the opportunity and encouragement to write this piece. In the essay, I share the story behind my new book, Dear Almost, and talk about my writing process.

Wendy Wisner was kind enough to answer my questions about her poems and essays over at the Ploughshares blog. In the interview, we talked about her latest book of poems, Morph and Bloom, and how her prose writing influences her poetry.

My poem, “Come Back to Tell Us,” is the Poem-a-Day over at the Academy of American Poets website. Big thanks to Alex Dimitrov, Mary Gannon and all the fine folks at the Academy. This poem is a piece from Dear Almost, my book-length poem, which will be published by LSU Press next month.