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!
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!
My thanks to the editors of the Cold Mountain Review for including my poem “On the Dock” in their Spring/ Summer 2019 issue. This issue also includes poems by Wendy Barker, Brandon Krieg, R.T. Smith, and writing and artwork by many others. Click the cover above!
My thanks to the editors and organizers of Mass Poetry for featuring my poem “At the Orchard” on “Poem of the Moment.” If you like what you read, you can pre-order a copy of my latest poetry collection, The Actual World, due out in August 2019!
The new issue of Poet Lore is out with work by Traci Brimhall, Michael Collier, Cornelius Eady, Kerry James Evans, Myronn Hardy, David Lehman, Linda Pasta, Hayden Saunier, Jane Shore, R.T. Smith, Adam Tavel, Lesley Wheeler, and Mike White. I am honored to be among this group of esteemed poets, and I wish to thank Jodi Bolz and E. Ethelbert Miller for publishing my poem “Morning Commute.”
This poem is also in my forthcoming collection, The Actual World, available for pre-order now from Black Lawrence Press.
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!
Issue 42 of Salt Hill is out with new work by Lynn Domina, Saddiq Dzukogi, Kevin Phan, Liz Breazeale, and many others. My thanks to the editors for including my poem, “Poem.”
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.
The Winter 2018/2019 issue of Barrow Street is out with poems by Tina Barr, Steven Kramer, Janice N. Harrington, Philip Fried, Virginia Konchan, Nina Lindsay, Martin Ott, Maya Pindyck, and Charles Rafferty.
My thanks to the Lorna Knowles Blake and her fellow editors for including my poem “Weekend Away,” dedicated to Robert Bly.
The Spring 2018 issue of Columbia Poetry Review is out with new poems by Denise Duhamel, Hoa Nguyen, Amy Gerstler, Cole Swenson, Rusty Morrison, Jennifer Moxley, Stephen Gibson, and many others. My thanks to the editorial staff for including my poem “People Talking.”
The new issue of Gargoyle is out with work by Roy Bentley, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Dana Curtis, Jim Daniels, Mark Decarteret, Gary Fincke, Richard Jones, George Kalamaras, Elisabeth Murawski, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Adam Tavel, Michael Waters, Anne Pierson Wiese, Valerie Wohlfeld, and Adrienne Su. My thanks to Richard Peabody for including my poem “Memory.”
The 2017 issue of RHINO is out with work by Eric Pankey, Kristina Marie Darling, Adam Day, Lola Haskins, Andrea Hollander, Michael Homolka, Rochelle Hurt, Rachel Mennies, Alison Prine, Lee Sharkey, Joyce Sutphen, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
My thanks to Ralph Hamilton and the editorial board for including my poem “April Foolishness.”
The new issue of Poetry East is out with poems by Alice Friman, Dobby Gibson, Ted Kooser, Marsh Muirhead, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, and Barry Silesky. This issue also includes paintings by Caravaggio, Titian, and Bellini, along with prose pieces by Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lord Byron, and Walter Pater.
My thanks to editor Richard Jones for including my poem “In the Country.”
Two new poems of mine are up at AGNI Online: “Having Forgotten to Put Out Fresh Towels, I Run Naked and Wet to the Bedroom” and “I Looked Up to See.”
My thanks to William Pierce and the editorial staff for their selections and kind introduction.
The Spring 2017 issue of Lake Effect is out with poetry and fiction by Stephen Dunn, Norman Dubie, Kathy Fagan, Tony Hoagland, John Gallaher, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jeff Gundy, Tina May Hall, Christopher Howell, Robert Gibb, Dorothy Berresi, Christopher Buckley, David Clewell, Alberto Alvaro Rios, and Kathryn Nuernberger.
My thanks to George Looney and the editorial board for including my poems “Directive” and “Dusk.”
The new issue of Poetry East is out with poems by Robert Bly, Bruce Bond, Alan Feldman, Faith Shearin, James Armstrong, Jessica Greenbaum, Jodi Bolz, John Bargowksi, Julia Hanson, Mike White, Rebecca Foust, and Susan Terris. My thanks to editor Richard Jones for including my poems “Early Morning in Late Summer” and “Sudden Death in Middle Age.”
The Spring/ Summer 2017 issue of Poet Lore is out with work by Natasha Trethewey, Chana Bloch, Jim Daniels, William Virgil Davis, Dore Kiesselbach, Andrew Motion, D. Nurske, Carol Potter, Michael Waters, Terence Winch, and many others.
My thanks to the editors for including my poem “Wading out to Tarp the Boat on My Fortieth Birthday.”
The new issue of The Laurel Review is out with work by Maxine Chernoff, Kristina Marie Darling, Kjell Espmark, Sally Ball, Bruce Bond, Matthew Cooperman, Dinah Cox, Shawn Fawson, Alex Lemon, Yang Mu, Martha Silano, Ingela Strandberg, and Tony Trigilio, and an interview with Marcus Wicker.
My thanks to the editors for including my poems “The Engine Has Stalled” and “Moon Poem.”
The Winter 2016-2017 issue of The Journal is out with new work by Rae Armantrout, Lisa Russ Spaar, Monica Berlin, Adam Day, Michael Homolka, Abe Koogler, Kathryn Nuernberger, Nomi Stone, and Leah Umansky, and an interview with Carl Phillips.
My thanks to the editors for including my poems “At Thirty-Seven, I Hear the Cry of a Great Horned Owl for the First Time” and “The Book.”
The Spring 2016 issue of The Louisville Review is out with work by Denise Duhamel, Julie Marie Wade, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Nancy McCabe, Greg Pape, and Jack Ridl, among many others.
My thanks to the editors for including my poem “My Father at Seventy.”
The Spring/ Summer 2016 issue of Poet Lore with work by writers such as Sandra Gilbert, Lorrie Goldensohn, Tony Hoagland, Patricia Hooper, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Vandana Khanna, Frannie Lindsay, Marge Piercy, Barbara Crooker, Patricia Fargnoli, Gary Fincke, Gerry LaFemina, Doug Ramspeck, Carrie Shipers, Lindsay Tigue, Mike White, and includes a selection of translations by Uruguayan poet Idea Vilarino.
My thanks to the editors for publishing my poem “Kindness.”
The new issue of Chicago Quarterly Review (Vol. 22) is out with fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by F. Douglas Brown, George Choundas, Geffrey Davis, Panio Gianopoulos, Tim Keppel, Marianne Kunkel, Glen Pourciau, Ronald Tobias, and many others.
My thanks to the editors for including my poem “Visiting a Friend Who Was Given Six Months to Live Eleven Years Ago.”
The new issue of Gargoyle is out (#44) with an incredible variety of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry by such writers as Tina Barr, Mary Biddinger, Alex Cigale, Barbara Crooker, Moira Egan, Anna Maria Hong, Laird Hunt, Jill Khoury, Gerry LaFemina, Elisabeth Murawski, Noel Sloboda, Derek JG Williams, and Michele Wolf.
My thanks to the editors for including my poems “Locker Room” and “Lines in Early Autumn.”
The winter issue (2015/2016) of Beloit Poetry Journal is out with work by Jennifer Atkinson, Michael Bazzett, Bruce Bond, Andrew Brenza, Jari Chevalier, Nicelle Davis, Chris Haven, Ann Keniston, Patrick Kindig, Éireann Lorsung, John C. Morrison, Miller Oberman, Richardo Pau-Llosa, Jeffrey Schwaner, Melissa Stein, Jason Tandon, Alexandra Teague, Robert Thomas, and Mark Wagenaar.
My thanks to the editors for including my poem “Discipline.”
The new issue of Salamander (#41) is out with work by Gail Mazur, Martha Collins, Wyn Cooper, Carrie Bennett, Chard deNiord, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Jehanne Dubrow, Jessica Greenbaum, Mary LaChapelle, Nicholas Mainieri, Dawn Potter, Gabriel Levin, David Wagoner, and many other fine writers.
My thanks to the editors for including my poem, “At the Orchard.”
The autumn issue of Poetry East is out with new work by Ace Boggess, Jody Bolz, Bruce Bond, Jared Carter, Dan Gerber, Bob Hicok, Meg Kearney, Barry Silesky, and C.K. Williams.
My thanks to the editors for including my poems “L’Arabesque,” “New Year’s Day,” and “Swimming Alone in Broad Bay,” all from my new manuscript, The Actual World.
Jason Tandon 