LIONTAMER'S BLUES

If you haven’t yet done so, please take a look at the relaunch of Short, Fast, & Deadly Monthly. The inaugural issue, aptly named [First Words], includes six pieces from me as the featured artist and is available in both print and digital formats. Thanks, Joseph!

see: SF&D | [FIRST WORDS]
see also: PRINT VERSION

Connotation Press was kind enough to publish 3 stories and an interview with me. Meg Tuite and I talked about process, electricity, Keith Richards, and the subversive nature of the prose poem. Also this month, you’ll find other great writers like Paul Scot August and Ryan W. Bradley, so check it out! Thanks, Meg and Ken! see: CONNOTATION PRESS 

Short, Fast & Deadly has released another fantastic issue as well, which happens to include my poem, #14. Thanks for including me, Joseph! see: SHORT, FAST & DEADLY 

Last but not least, Red Ceilings Press has posted 3 poems inspired by a call from Mark Cobley for work regarding “the edge of a sneeze.” Thanks, Mark! see: RED CEILINGS PRESS

Chris Vola flash-reviewed A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF for the Deadly Chaps Press Facebook page and had the following to say:

“David Tomaloff’s A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF is an elegy to a place where the heart’s foibles are lain to tremor, dream-sore: “that things should not escape/doesn’t always mean they don’t”. Prickly-smooth verses skirt the he-said-she wreckage of rebel gardens and cheating mimes, any talisman to pluck at the wane of domestic blear and the wax of sublime synaptic gappery. Love-as-pipe-bomb, nice touch.”

My gratitude to Mr. Vola and to Deadly Chaps head assassin, Joseph Quintela!

I have been informed that my Red Ceilings Press chapbook, Olifaunt, will be used among works by JD Nelson, Joseph A. W. Quintela, Larry Sawyer, Larissa Shmailo, and Felino A. Soriano in Keith Higginbotham’s creative writing class this semester. Can I be in better company? I don’t think so.

 Read along with the cool kids: Olifaunt

Short, Fast, and Deadly (Issue 61) is out. Thank you, editor Joseph A. W. Quintela, for giving my words a good home.

see: S, F, &D (Issue 61)