Anthology update and other news

The latest additions to my archive at GSU Library. 

Megan Volpert and I selected 65 poets to feature in the forthcoming White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology forthcoming from Madville Publishing in 2026. We've already notified the poets and are getting ready to send contracts. There is some really fantastic work from poets known and new. We can't wait for you to read it! 

In other news, I flushed the chapbook idea I mentioned in my last post in favor of another project that has long been simmering, but it feels like the right time to get it going. This is another collaborative project with one of my most favorite poets. Stay tuned. 

In February, I took another stack of material to the Georgia State University Archive. It was amazing to see the care with which they’ve cataloged and stored my papers and ephemera from my career as a poet and writer. This stack included the working manuscript and proof of Wonder & Wreckage, my first attempt at a chapbook from 1995, and a school assignment from 1987 that has some of my first poems. In the middle of that stack (pictured above) are five notebooks from 1990 to 1999 that contain the handwritten early drafts of poems that would later make it into my collections and a lot of cringe-worthy heartbreak and experiments that were all part of the process. Thank you again to Morna Gerrard for being a world-class curator.

I'm now three issues into my editorship of Georgia Voice – the LGBTQ+ newspaper of record for the southeast. The news for the community continues to be dire as the current administration works to try and erase us, especially trans folks. The anti-trans legislation at the state and local level is absurd and cruel and mainly a distraction from all the other ways lawmakers are trying to strip people of their civil and human rights. You can read the March issue of Georgia Voice here.