The Southern Review and Relief

 Winter poems. Today it’s grey and dripping in my corner of

Washington. All the rare and glorious snow has turned into a wet slog. What better time for poetry.

I am honored to have poems appearing in the winter volume of two of my favorite journals The Southern Review http://www.lsu.edu/tsr/IssuesWinter08.html and Relief Journal http://www.reliefjournal.com/

The Southern Review, under the estimable Bret Lott, consistently puts out one of the finest literary venues anywhere. Relief is a new brand of literary journal for writers who grapple with faith in the midst of daily life.

Seems like most of my writing colleagues are celebrating at AWP this week in NY City. For the next three days, throw a snowball in NY and you’ll hit a writer. Haiku–2 for $5 on every street corner—enjoy!