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I'm thrilled that my poem "Lady in the Tower" is one of six finalists for this month's Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest. Hope you'll vote for your favorite at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

My poem has been a finalist before, but has never won and reached 7 million people in the monthly Goodreads Newsletter. If you are a member of the ¡Poetry! group on Goodreads, please vote now. If you're not a member, check out the group -- there's a lot happening there to entertain your inner poet or poetry lover.

My poem "The Fall," which recently appeared in The New Verse News, is now a finalist in the Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

If you are a member of the ¡Poetry! group, or if you join it, you can vote in this month's contest.

This is the first time one of my poems has been ahead in the running for this monthly contest! I'm excited and honored.

I'm so thrilled and honored that my poem "Ride a Red Horse" (about whisky distilling, among other things) is among this month's group of finalists for the Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest. One of my favorites is actually one of the honorable mentions, "Stolen from my Father's Room" by my friend Ko. Please go and vote for your favorite. (You may have to join the Poetry! group to vote if you're not already a member.) There are some really fine poems there this month.

My poem "Doomed Romance," which first appeared in The East Bay Review, is now a finalist in this month's Goodreads Newsletter Poetry Contest. You can vote for your favorite poem at
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

You might have to join the ¡Poetry! group in order to vote, if you're not already a member. The contest, which is held monthly, accepts previously published as well as new poems.

I'll be reading with editors and contributors to The East Bay Review at Oakland's Beast Crawl on July 16, 2016, at 6:30 PM at SomaR Bar, 1727 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, USA. See https://www.facebook.com/events/12089... for details.