Mad Rush is a new literary journal, published quarterly with a focus on poetry and flash fiction.

My poem “Solar Powered” has just been published in its inaugural issue.

It’s editor, Craig Scott, is asking four questions of each of its contributors. My responses are here.

Cracking a nut is really not an art form, and so no one will dare to call an audience together and entertain it by cracking nuts. If he does it nevertheless, and does so successfully, then it must be a matter of something more than merely cracking nuts. Or it is cracking nuts, but we must have ignored some aspect of this art form because we mastered it too well and it took this new nutcracker to reveal its true nature to us, and it can even help his demonstration if he is a little less proficient at nutcracking than the rest of us.

– Franz Kafka, from “Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People”, in Metamorphosis and Other Stories, translated by Michael Hofmann

I have such a crush.

My poem “Fishwife” has been published in issue 5 of Line Zero.

Earlier I mentioned that my poem “Innocence” was published in CV2. That poem is now available on their website along with other excerpts from that issue, which is pretty cool.