Really excited to have a couple new poems in the latest Great Lakes Review. Thanks to Mitch James for giving these a home.

The Great Lakes are one of the largest freshwater systems in the world. Cleveland is innovating to protect them. Stay tuned for the release of a new mini-documentary in partnership with Cleveland Metroparks, NE Ohio Regional Sewer District and The West Creek Team. #confluence #cleveland #cleanwater

Clearly, I might be a bit biased, but it's a great experience! Please share or consider joining!

"When they came to Toronto for work, everything they knew about Canada came from stereotypes and memes about Justin Trudeau. That’s where I came in." From "Brains in Love" By joel fishbane #Fiction in #GreatLakesReview greatlakesreview.org/brains-in-love/

Fabulous news from the good people at Belt Publishing and The Rust Belt Humanities Lab, who are launching a new collaborative journal on “Rust Belt Studies.” Read more here: beltmag.com/theorizing-the…

A small excerpt from a magnum opus I hope to see in print someday.

Big thanks thanks to Ohio Poetry Assn. for publishing my bird-inspired poem in their recent anthology of eco poetry. Reading my way through it now. It's fire!

Big thanks to the folks at Bull for publishing this story. It might anger some of my fellow colleagues in higher ed, which I could understand, but I also think it's fairly balanced and accurately showcases the nuance and challenge inherent in the reality of higher education now.

Midwest writers. Your chance to represent!

Hey #GreatLakesReview community, are you getting rain today?? (5 days to go until submissions open!)

Would love to see more submissions!!! Send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and/or Narrative Maps project.

Still accepting submissions for nonfiction, photograph, and narrative map.

Where to submit this week ✨ All details here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs #WritingCommunity

Can't wait to see what this drums up.

I know the ways black stones seek, can weigh the shine of lake glass inside skirt pockets. My body is haunted by the grandmothers who never leave these shores we know, From Meryl: Autobiography By Lake Angela #Poetry for #GreatLakesReview greatlakesreview.org/meryl-autobiog…

"I can’t rid myself of my American tendency towards self-abnegation, my American tendency towards excess, my American tendency to vacillate between the two." On gooning and American excess. Fascinating read: shorturl.at/nz81j

WHERE TO SUBMIT THIS WEEK. End of the month means lots of closings so we focused on those 🙂 Sub deets: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs

Could there be a better compliment, a bigger achievement, a more proper use of one's poetry?

Hey, this power house read Lakeland Community College, where I teach, so that was pretty cool. If you ever get a chance to hear her live, then Nike--just do it.