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Check out my first full-length book, Things We Don't Know We Don't Know from the Backwaters Press, winner of the 2007 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and a Contemporary Poetry best seller
After earning my MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis, I moved back to Omaha where I live with my wonderful wife Sarah and baby daughters Sophia and Lucia. I edit PoetryMenu.com, a listing of every Nebraska poetry event (and, yes, there are a lot, see for yourself) and founded Morpo Press which, since 1997, has published 29 chapbooks by up-and-coming local writers. I also run the Omaha Healing Arts Center Poetry Slam (on the 2nd Saturday of every month, drop by and say "Hello," starts at 7:30) as well as the occasional reading series.
Over 100 magazines and anthologies have published my poems, including Laurel Review, Prairie Schooner, The Morpo Review, and the online edition of Mississippi Review. New Michigan Press released my chapbook Mistranslating Neruda in 2003; not to be outdone, Lone Willow Press put out When The Bough Breaks in 2005.
I've read poetry everywhere from behind the podiums of the Nebraska Book Festival to the stages of the National Poetry Slam as well as at universities, high schools, libraries, book stores, radio shows, state fairs, art museums, bars, ice cream parlors, and coffee shops across the country.
