This fall, thanks to a grant from the Morris Area Arts Boosters, I’ll be a visiting writer in Ms. Knochenmus’s Creative Writing class at Morris Area High School. Great first day with these students! So looking forward to next month!

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Thrilled to have a poem in the new anthology Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems out now from Negative Capability Press. Thanks to the editors for including “Savannah” in such good company! Likely the only time I’ll share pages with a former president!

Hey gang, I’m putting together a playlist for an upcoming Largehearted Boy piece on Charmed Particles (one of my longtime writer dreams come true!) and to play before/after my upcoming launch events. Who’s got suggestions for me? Hit me with your best songs re: physics, suburbia, Mary Kay ladies, local politics, gentlemen explorers, encyclopedias, cultural assimilation, novelty convenience foods, living history facilities, and/or the kind of music baby genius high school girls would have been into circa 1989.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

• “Particle Man,” They Might Be Giants
• “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” the Monkeys
• “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want,” the Smiths
• “I Envy the Photons,” the Lesser Birds of Paradise
• “Atomic Power,” Uncle Tupelo
• “Supercollider,” Radiohead

I can’t wait to see what you guys suggest!

Newcity‘s Fall Lit Preview is out today: A huge thank you to Christine Sneed for the kind words about Charmed Particles (“a brainy, witty page-turner”) and for letting me rub elbows with such an accomplished crew! New books by Lauren Groff, Joe Meno, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Floyd Skloot—so much good stuff to read this fall!