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Yarmouth Port, Wellfleet, Provincetown

This week, I flew home with my mother to Yarmouth, Massachusetts to bury my father’s ashes in the place where many generations of my mother’s family are buried, Ancient Cemetery.

I am back in Florida where I came home to a wall of 95-degree heat inside the cottage due to days-long broken air-conditioner (luckily a repair man arrived last night). But I’m trying to stay in that place I belong with my family, friends, beaches, ocean and ponds and marsh. The sky and trees and voices I’ve known all my life.

A few photos of this week in Yarmouth Port, Wellfleet, and Provincetown - home:

(Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts)

(Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts)

(marsh, Yarmouth, Massachusetts)

(Gray’s Beach boardwalk, still closed due to winter storm damage)

(my great-grandparents’ house, Tom and Hazel Baker, Yarmouth)

(my great-grandparents’ house, Tom and Hazel Baker, Yarmouth)

(swimming at Herring Cove, Provincetown)

(Barnstable, MA)

(Gray’s Beach/Bass Hole at very low tide - water in the invisible distance)

(Mayo Beach, Wellfleet)

(floating at Herring Cove, Provincetown)

Book News

I’ve just booked a couple of initial readings/events in 2027 for Book of Miracles, and if you would like to host a reading/event or share possible reading opportunities with me, please be in touch.

• March 2, 2027: Publication Date for Book of Miracles (Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press)

• March 6, 2027: Book of Miracles Book Party/Launch at Jack Kerouac House, 1418 Clouser Avenue, Orlando, FL 32804

• March 11, 2027: Book of Miracles Reading at The Dali Museum, 1 Dali Blvd, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

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Recent Publications

POEMS

“Turn Around,” Dream Notebook,” and “A Poem in a Magazine” in New World Writing Quarterly: read here

“Refuge of Last Resort,” Elysium Review: read here

“Dear Ghost,” Five Points, Volume 25, No. 1: issue here

“A Garden at Night,” Florida Review AQUIFER: read here

“Fortune,” The Cincinnati Review: read here

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ESSAYS

“Mountain Girl,” StoryQuarterly, Issue # 58: read here

“The Assessor’s Office,” About Place Journal (theme: The Ground Beneath Our Feet): read here

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FICTION

“Aria,” Ghost Parachute: read here