Last week, I received my copies of the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Poet Lore! It looks beautiful. My work is on pages 26-28, but I’ve read several of the others, and they have all been excellent so far. I’m definitely honored to be a part of this issue. You can order a copy here at their website: poetlore.com.

My horror story and mock urban legend, “What Goes Down, Must Come Back Up,” is also up at the online journal Rougarou. You can read it here. This story was inspired by my stay at the Artesian Lakes Resort in Cleveland, Texas in 2009. It was certainly an experience I will never forget, and I’m always happy for my work to appear in any journal named after a mythical monster. Especially one that is so specific to location and the South. However, I’m quite sad that they can no longer afford to give contributers bottles of Tabasco as payment…because that really would’ve been the icing on the cake!