A couple of new poems are up at the fine “Left Hooks.”
From “American Life in Poetry”
The poem “Driving West through Somerset County” is up at former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” Web site, and in hundreds of newspapers across the country that run his column each week.
Hot off the presses…
Now available: Issue #180 of Carole Baldock’s Orbis, featuring a few poems from yours truly and a whole host of other excellent poems and works of short fiction…

Recent publication notes…
“Flycatcher in a Three-bay Barn” has been accepted for publication by Neologism Poetry Journal, “To My Mother-in-law, on the Occasion of Her Wake” will appear soon in PoetryCircle, Orchards Poetry Journal will be printing “Window Weights” and “1963 Impala Super Sport Convertible” in an upcoming issue, and “Wrapping Up” and “Billards” will be appearing in Anapest Journal. “Valley View Nursing Home, 1993” will appear in Edify, and “A New Confectionery,” “Darning the Sky,” and “Promises” will be published in Carole Baldock’s excellent Orbis.
Poem Up at the Poetry Foundation…
(Another) poem about a deer, from the Web site of the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143856/driving-west-through-somerset-county
Three Poems Up at the University at Albany
“Off-course” has been published for almost twenty years. This edition features three recent poems on topics ranging from architecture and farm stands to fishing: : http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/issue68/kevin_casey.html
“Snake in Effigy”
From the latest issue of the (very handsomely-bound) Maine Review…
Recent publication notes…
Obsessed with Pipework will be publishing “Tableau Vivant at 30,000 Feet,” and “Abandoned Bicycle,” “Clearing His Throat,” “A Last Supper,” “Snowmobiling at Midnight,” “Birthday Postcard” and “Poverty” will appear in an upcoming issue of FRiGG…
April publication notes…
“Botany Lesson” and “Partridge Hunting” were accepted for publication by The High Window, and Calamus Journal will be publishing “Blue Willow China in a Mountain Cabin” later this month. “To the Harpist in the Hospital Waiting Room” will appear in By&By Poetry soon, and “English as a Second Language” was recently accepted for publication by Miller’s Pond Magazine.
Kelsay Books accepted the full-length manuscript “Ways to Make a Halo,” and Sinkhole will be publishing “A Last Supper,” “Mondegreen,” and “Food Poisoning” in an upcoming issue.