Announcing Moonstone Chapbook Launch

When Larry Robin reached out to me to me about the Moonstone Chapbook Contest I did not know which manuscript he was talking. Around the same time I entered the Moonstone Contest I produced an original chapbook in a three day contest put on by Peter White Public Library in Marquette, MI. That contest had a cut-off of a hundred entrants and I was really confident about the manuscript called tardis companion.

The manuscript that was chosen as a finalist is much better -- not written in three days. It contains some of best work up to date. I am excited to share it with you. The actual launch date will be in November. If you would like to pre-purchase a copy I have made it available at big cartel. It would be helpful to me to estimate the first printing.

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My original cover designs orbited around a stork playing the airplane game with baby alien. You'll be glad to know I decided to take my concept less literally and went with a Northern Renaissance pen and ink rendering by Albrecht Dürer aptly name "The Stork." I figured why not feign sophistication when given the opportunity.

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On of my most successful poems up to date featured in Laurel Review: Proud to Be Volume 13 is my opening poem. A staple of my refugee experience was visiting the Tomb of the Unknown soldier in the various cities we migrate through. Sadly, this did not deter me from joining the Navy.

I'm not obsessed with flight. The airplane game predates the Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk. I think about what it would be like to be a fly like a bird several times a day. Actual flying the kind we do on planes is incredibly stressful to me since 9/11. The strain on the environment is measured against the ability to see what we've done to our overworked planet. The overview effect might just be another narcissistic moment. I've been trying to focus on ecopoetry as an effort to meet moments. I had to include the Goldman Environmental Awards in my dedication for inspiring so much of my work in that space.

I close the collection with a three pantoum elegiac series. It took me almost a decade to address the death of my friend and I am so proud that I was finally able to appease her ghost. Which I say I don't believe in but I always feel her around me.I hope you'll support my work by liking and sharing the poetry videos. The book makes a perfect gift for yourself or a loved one by pre-purchasing The Airplane Game you will receive a signed copy and a complimentary limited edition broadside.

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