My poem "First and Last" honored with the Poetry Quarterly 2018 Rebecca Lard Award

Poetry Quarterly has selected my poem, "First and Last," as their 2018 Rebecca Lard Award Winner. I am honored for this selection.

"First and Last" is from an unpublished collection, Dark Fathers, about my relationship with my father, which as is often the case was for a long time a problematic one. This poem describes the time when he and I began to reconcile, which always involves forgiveness on both sides. That catharsis and reconciliation began after his major heart attack, which he thankfully survived for another 23 years, a time that allowed us to become loving friends as well as father and son. But in the time of the poem, that was unknown as was his very survival.

Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers and the Poetry Quarterly team for this high honor.

You will soon be able to purchase copies of the issue from their bookstore.

The parent of PQ, Prolific Press, also published my collection, Final Inventory, last October, and you can purchase a copy from their Bookstore.

Thank you Light: A Journal of Photography and Poetry for accepting my poem "Fecundity" for publication mid-March

Thank you Light: A Journal of Photography and Poetry for accepting my poem "Fecundity" for publication mid-March in their "Labor" issue.

Thank you Sky Island Journal for accepting 2 of my poems for publication on April 13, 2019

Thank you editors Jeff and Jason at Sky Island Journal for accepting 2 of my poems for publication on April 13, 2019.

They write:

"Dark Sector Lab, South Pole, March 2014" and "Smith" transport and challenge us in ways that poetry seldom does. The deeper truths within these poems create a gravity that our hearts simply cannot escape. Quiet intimacy, articulate grace, and careful concision are the calling cards of these pieces. Your imagery is elegant, and your craft is airtight. Like all great art, these poems are gifts that keep giving; we discover more about them, and ourselves, with every reading. They create a complicated view of our own humanity, and we are beyond excited to share them with the world.

From February 3 through February 7, three of my chapbooks will be available FREE from Amazon in Kindle format.

From February 3 through February 7, three of my chapbooks will be available FREE  from Amazon in Kindle format. All I ask if that you give them a read and review them on Amazon and Goodreads.

My Amazon Author Page:
amazon.com/author/davidanthonysam

My Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/dasam