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2018 has been all about highs and lows! I'll skip the lows and emphasize the highs.

Since I last wrote, I’ve had a number of humor pieces published—check out "Insensitivity Training" in Robot Butt (https://www.robotbutt.com/2018/06/19/...) and "Children Beg To Return To Cages," in the Daily Squib (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) . Plus, The Satirist has just published my piece "A Misanthropic Guide To The Holidays" (https://www.thesatirist.com/satires/a...). My collection of satirical pieces is finished and I’m actively seeking an agent for the New Year!

On the poetry front, The Charles Carter has published "The Dewdrops of Death"(https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) and “Twilight Reverie.” (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) These are poems from my first collection, ‘Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight,’ that makes an incredible holiday gift FYI (https://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-Lo...). If you do buy it, be sure to write a review on Amazon as it helps tremendously. Torrid Literature Journal Vol XXII has just been published (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) and includes the poem “Weekend Getaway” from my upcoming poetry collection “Feast of Sapphires.” I also have a new poem "Writing on The L.I.R.R.," out in the print edition of New Plains Review (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...). Other recent poetry publications include Street Light Press (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...), Parentheses Journal (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) and Courtship of Winds(https://www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/m...)

My poem "If We Are Doomed" won the 2018 Spirit First Editor's Choice Award. Read it here (http://www.spiritfirst.org/poetry_con...). Humbled and honored to obtain this award—out of more than 2000 entries. Plus I was interviewed about writing here. (FYI...my FB clone isn’t half the poet I am!).

If you like these works, my books are on Amazon, ‘Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight’ (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...) and ‘From The Fridge To The Crackerjack Box. (https://mattnagin.us17.list-manage.co...)’ Would love if you could read some of my writings and provide feedback. Any feedback helps—even the admonition that "I should quit...immediately!

Plus, just in time for the holidays, I now have a Zazzle store with some very cool Nagin merchandise. Weird Jokes, Poetic Inspiration, Zany Graphics, you name it. Check it out! (https://www.zazzle.com/burningflowerp...)

Happy holidays!

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New York's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology

My poem "Birds Singing In My Chest" is now in a new anthology titled "New York's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology." It is available at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/108.... Use this affiliate link if possible https://www.zpublishinghouse.com/?rfs... In case you didn't get to pick up my second poetry book, "Feast of Sapphires," it is on Amazon now, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578508125 and obtaining some terrific reviews. As always, really appreciate any feedback or interaction, so DM me about myself or my work if interested. Have a great day!!!!!