I am incredibly grateful to the editors of the North American Review for including my poem “Vacation” in their Spring 2024 issue, along with work by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Martín Espada, Daniel Halpern, George Kalamaras, Timothy Liu, David Tucker, G.C. Waldrep, and many others.
I am grateful to the editors of the Alaska Quarterly Review for making my poem “Because There Was Nothing” from their Summer/ Fall 2023 issue available on their website.
My thanks to the editors of the Harvard Review Online for publishing my poem “Meditation at Snowfall.” Click the image below to give it a read.
I am grateful to the editors of The Midwest Quarterly for including my poem “After Many Weeks of Busyness, I Sit in the Backyard with a Bottle of Beer” in their Summer 2023 issue, along with work by Michael Ansara, Terri Brown-Davidson, Brendan Galvin, George Kalamaras, Andrea Potos, Tony Whedon, David Starkey, and many others.
Grateful to the editors of the Alaska Quarterly Review for including my poem “Because There Was Nothing” in their Summer & Fall 2023 issue, along with work by Matthew Zapruder, Virginia Konchan, Jennifer Barber, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hemmert, Laura Kolbe, and many others.
Grateful to the editors of the Paterson Literary Review for including my poem “That Which Was Scribbled” in their 2023 issue, along with work by Jim Daniels, Marge Piercy, Martín Espada, Bob Hicok, January G. O’Neil, Vivian Shipley, Matthew Thorburn, Barbara Crooker, and many others.
I am happy to announce that my fifth full-length poetry collection This Far North is now available for pre-sale from Black Lawrence Press. You can purchase a copy at a discount and help support a small press in the process. Click the cover for details, and thank you for your support!
Honored to have my poem “Out Here, at the Edge of the Land” from my forthcoming book This Far North published in the Summer 2022 issue of Prairie Schooner, along with work by Marilyn Hacker, Tomaž Šalamun, John Kinsella, Corrie Williamson, Timothy Donnelly, Fleda Brown, Jehanne Dubrow, Bruce Bond, Traci Brimhall, Nancy Eimers, and many others.
My thanks to Terry House, editor of the Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio “Poem of the Month” series, for featuring two of my poems from my latest collection The Actual World (scroll down to February 2020). If you like what you read, consider picking up a copy!
Thank you to the editors of the North American Review for publishing my poem “Coyote” on their companion site, Open Space.
The Fall 2019 issue of Poetry East is out with work by Ted Kooser, Gerald Stern, Maura Stanton, Michael Chitwood, Todd Davis, Marsh Muirhead, Alison Pelegrin, and many others. I am grateful to the editors for including my poems “Please Understand,” “Poem,” and “Urdhva Mukha Svanasana” among this wonderful group of contributors.
The spring 2019 issue of The Laurel Review is out with poems by Sasha West, Arthur Vogelsang, Jim Daniels, David Dodd Lee, William Virgil Davis, Chris Forhan, M.A. Vizsolyi, Zach Savich, Tom Paine, Bruce Cohen, Rich Bursky, and Albert Golbarth, among many others. My thanks to the editors for including my poems “At the Office” and “Thinking about Laughter.”
I wish to thank Diane Goettel and everyone at Black Lawrence Press for believing in this book, and for all of their time and hard work publishing it. The Actual World is now available from Small Press Distribution, Amazon, Powell’s, and other on-line retailers.
I also want to thank those of you who pre-ordered a copy and those of you who will purchase one in the future. I hope to see you at a reading soon!
Please contact me if you know of a local library or bookstore that might like to carry this title, or if you know someone interested in a review–or if you simply want to comment on the poems. I’d love to hear from you, and I very much appreciate your interest and support!
I am so pleased and proud to announce the publication of my fourth full-length collection of poetry, The Actual World. The book will be published in August 2019, and if you are interested in pre-ordering a copy, please do so from Black Lawrence Press. We thank you for your generous support!
The Winter 2018-19 issue of Ploughshares is out with new poetry by Jill Osier, Sally Ball, Ellen Bass, W.S. Di Piero, Keith Ekiss, Alice Friman, Rebecca Hazleton, Karen Skolfield, Mark Yakich, and the late Tony Hoagland.
My thanks to Ladette Randolph and John Skoyles for including my poem “Man Paddling Canoe with Dog” with this wonderful group of writers.
Jason Tandon 