The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

My review of Charles Simic’s The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (one of Ausable Press’s final titles) was recently published by Rattle. To read the review click here.

The Greasy Puppeteer

The Madison Review has revamped their website, including an archive of previous issues. My thanks to the editors for choosing my poem “To Dance with the Greasy Puppeteer” as the feature poem from the Fall 2007 issue. To read the poem click the image above. To purchase a copy of Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, the collection in which this poem appears, click the image below.

Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (2009)

Hand-set, letterpress-printed, four-deckle, two-color broadsheet

My thanks to David McNamara, editor of sunnyoutside, who has published my poem “Podunk” as a limited edition broadsheet. If interested in a copy, click the image above. If interested in a copy of Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, the collection in which this poem appears, please click the image below. My thanks again for all of your support.

Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (2009)

New Review in Pleiades

The new issue of Pleiades is out with poems by Mike White, J. Allyn Rosser,  Martha Collins, G. C. Waldrep, Jim Daniels, Rusty Morrison, Andrea Baker, David Wagoner, Joshua Kryah, and Bruce Bond; fiction by Amina Gautier, Christine Sneed, Richard Burgin, & Gary Fincke; essays by Amy Benson, Melissa Kwasny, & Sarah Gorham; and a folio of Arabic poetry in translation featuring poems by Adonis, Ashur Etwebi, Ghassan Zaqtan, Amjad Nasser, Asmaa Azaizeh, & Dalia Taha (translations by Fady Joudah, Khaled Mattawa, & Rasheeda Plenty); and my review of Sandra Beasley’s I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize.

Salamander’s New Website

The editors over at Salamander have posted excerpts from their Winter 2010/2011 issue including my poem “Alarm,” which is forthcoming in my latest collection Quality of Life (due out in 2013 from Black Lawrence Press). To read the poem click here.

Sugar House Review

My poem “Reception” appears in the latest issue of the Sugar House Review, along with work by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Charles Harper Webb, Steven D. Schroeder, Alison Pelegrin, Greg Pape, Dawn Lonsinger, Rob Cook, an Rafael Campo, among many others. My thanks again to the editors for their selection.

National Poetry Month Spotlight

My poem “Nightcap” (originally appearing in Poet Lore) was recently featured on Black Lawrence Press’s National Poetry Spotlight with a brief interview. To read both click here.

Gulf Stream

The latest issue of Gulf Stream Magazine is out with a variety poems, fiction, and non-fiction, including an interview with Edwidge Danticat. My thanks again to the editors for publishing my poem “On Turning Thirty-Four.”

Passages North

The new issue of Passages North is out (Volume 32, Number 1) with work by Traci Brimhall, Nick Courtright, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Frank Giampietro, Bob Hicok, Dawn Lonsinger, Matthew Thorburn, Lili Wright, and many others. My thanks again to the editors for publishing my poem “Neighbors.”

Notre Dame Review

The new issue of the Notre Dame Review is out with work by John Ashbery, Yves Bonnefoy, Sandra Kohler, Colette, Inez, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Leslie Ann Miller, Gary Soto, Marcela Sulak, and David Wojahn. My thanks to the editors for including my poems “Mugging” and “History.”

Father Dirt

The new issue of Pleiades (31.1) is out with poetry by Katy Miller, Chris Forhan, Victoria Chang, Katie Galvin, Brian Barker, CJ Evans, Jehanne Dubrow, Mark Irwin, Bruno K. Öijer (trans. Virginia Häggblom), Michael Snediker, Melissa Kwasny, Cynthia Cruz, Marvin Bell, Betty Adcock, Adda Djørup (trans. Roger Greenwald), John Matthias, and Steven D. Schroeder among others; and essays, fiction, and reviews, including my review of Mihaela Moscaliuc’s Father Dirt.

Poetry on Tap

The 2011 issue of Alehouse is out with poetry by D.A. Powell, Rebecca Foust, Tara Betts, and Rebecca Dunham among many others. My thanks to the editors for publishing three of my poems: “Valentine’s Day, 2010,” “Our Rescue,” and “Meditation.”

New Issue of Salamander

The new issue of Salamander is out with fiction by Emily Van Kley, Molly Patterson, and Lee Johnson; a lyric memoir by Julie Marie Wade; and poetry by Franz Wright, Frannie Lindsay, John M. Anderson, Sally Molini, Aidan Rooney, David Surette, Mary Bonina, Chard deNiord, Tara Skurtu, and Alan Feldman, among others. The issue’s cover painting is by Andrzej Jackowski. My thanks again to the editors for publishing my poem “Alarm.”

Sawdust

My poem “The Actress” appears in the latest issue of Sawdust, the alumni magazine of Stephen F. Austin State University, as part of a feature on the literary journal Regarding Arts & Letters. To read the poem scroll to p. 10.

Disquieting Muses

My poem “Perigee” appears in the latest issue of the DMQ Review. From the editors:

The DMQ Review is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2010 issue featuring the poetry of Brian Diamond, Mark Liebenow, Laura McCullough, Jill McDonough, Brian McGackin, M. Nasorri Pavone, R.A. Riekki, T. Savoie, Karen Schubert, Sarah J. Sloat, J.R. Solonche, David Sullivan, Jason Tandon, and Angela Narcisco Torres, with artwork by Carol Bennett.

In collaboration with Peter Davis, editor of Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets On Books That Shaped Their Art, Volumes I & II, the DMQ Review is also pleased to feature the essay and new work of E. Ethelbert Miller, our Summer 2010 Featured Poet.

New Review of Heckler

Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (2009)

A review of my poetry collection Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt appears in the latest issue of the Green Hills Literary Lantern. An excerpt:

Reading Tandon’s poetry is like pushing through the twelve hours of an all-night Relay for Life.  At 9:00 PM the white paper bags decorated to honor fighters and victims of cancer are lit up from the inside by candles and make you cry.  At 6:00 AM, tired and drained, you laugh to see those special luminaries lining the track crumpled up and thrown away.

To read the full review click here. If you are interested in a copy of the book, click here.

Close Calls

My micro-review of Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry appears in the May/June 2010 issue of the Boston Review. To read a variety of poems, essays, and reviews from this issue click here. To read a selection from the most current issue, click below.

Ellipses…

The new issue of Ellipses…Literature & Art is out with fiction, non-fiction, photography, art, and poems by Dan O’Brien, B.J. Best, Sally Van Doren, Lyn Lifshin, Susan Thomas, and many others. My thanks again to the editors for including my poem “424 Buchanan Street.”

Bellingham Review

The Spring 2010 issue of the Bellingham Review is out with poems by Rae Gouirand, Melissa Kwasny, Tarfia Faizullah, Heather Kirn, Bobby C. Rodgers; creative non-fiction by Nancy McCabe, and fiction by Vanessa Blakeslee. My thanks again to the editors for including my poem “My Father Attends to the Death of His Father.” To read a selection of work, click here.

Parthenon West Review

The new issue of PWR is out with over a 150 pages of poetry by a range of poets including Bob Hicok, Alison Hawthorne Deming, George Kalamaras, Patty Seyburn, Maxine Chernoff, Camille T. Dungy, Matt Hart, Peter Jay Shippy, Nina Corwin, Mihaela Moscaliuc, L.S. Klatt, and translations of Virginie Lalucq, Shimon Adaf, and Yosana Akiko. My thanks again to the editors for selecting my poems “Waiting for Sleep” and “Newlywed.”

Small Press Bookwatch

Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt (2009)

My thanks to the editors of the Midwest Book Review for their short write-up on Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, calling the collection a “witty analysis of the world…entertaining and insightful.”

Big Things Briefly

A brief review of my poetry collection Wee Hour Martyrdom appeared recently in Off the Coast.

To read additional reviews of this book, reissued in 2009 by sunnyoutside, click here.

Poet Lore

The new issue of Poet Lore (Vol. 105.1/2) is out with poems by Dan Stryk, Doug Ramspeck, Ronald Wallace, Sandra Meek, D. Nurske, Annie Boutelle, Bruce Cohen, Aimee Sands, an essay entitled “Writing about Writing” by Linda Pastan, and my poem “Nightcap.” My thanks again to the editors for their selection.

National Poetry Month

My poem “Work” from Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt was recently featured on Black Lawrence Press’s National Poetry Month Spotlight.

Dark Things

The new issue of Pleiades is out (30.1) with poems by David Wagoner, Sandra Beasley, Gastao Cruz, Collier Nogues, H.L. Hix, Tomaz Salamun, and Martha Rhodes, and book reviews by Dana Levin (on Vasko Popa), Brian Barker (on Mark Halliday), Zach Savich (on Chris Forhan), Matthew Thorburn (on Russell Edson), Joanna Penn Cooper (on Michael Dickman), my review of Novica Tadic’s latest poetry collection Dark Things, and much, much more.

The Writer’s Almanac: Take Two

Yesterday on The Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor read another one of my poems from my collection Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt. To hear his reading please click here.

Also, while Amazon is temporarily out of stock and you wish to purchase a copy of the book, you can buy directly from Black Lawrence Press. Thanks once again for your support!

Verse Daily

My poem “Grace” was featured today on Verse Daily. Enjoy your read!

The Writer’s Almanac

I am honored and excited to announce that Garrison Keillor has selected my poem “Cleaning up after the Dog” to read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac.  It will air on Wednesday, February 17th. Click here to find out when and on what station you can hear the show.

And if you like the poem, you might be interested in checking out the rest of the collection, Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt. Thanks, as always, for your support.

The Century Mark

2010 is off to a fine start. A few more poems have been accepted from my new manuscript, Quality of Life, including my 100th publication. My thanks again to the editors and staffs of the following journals:

Ellipses: “424 Buchanan Street”

Faultline: “Friday Night”

Passages North: “Neighbors”

Notre Dame Review: “History,” “Mugging”

Silk Road: “Continents”

Forthcoming Poems

My thanks to all the editors and staffs of the following magazines for selecting poems from my new manuscript Quality of Life. These will be appearing some time in 2010-2012. I wish everyone a happy holiday season and new year.

Bellingham Review: “My Father Attends to the Death of His Father”

Blue Earth Review: “Elegy,” “The Explanation”

Georgetown Review: “Friends”

New York Quarterly: “Early Retirement,” “A Good Heat for Haying,”  “Sugaring,” “Quality of Life”

Parthenon West Review: “Newlywed,” “Waiting for Sleep”

Poet Lore: “Nightcap”

The Portland Review: “Christmas Putz”

Regarding Arts & Letters: “Happiness,” “Love Poem (Redux)”