cameron alexander lawrence

I'm grateful to the editors of Cold Mountain Review for giving this, the only dog poem I've ever written, a home. 

Kristin George Bagdanov, EDITORS RUMINATE: ON THE POETRY OF ISSUE 46, A WAY THROUGH

I'm happy to have a poem—a love poem (of sorts)—featured today at The Shallow Ends. With all gratitude to wonderful poet/editor Eloisa Amezcua for seeing something in it. 

Many thanks to editor Sebastian Hasani Páramo for publishing my poem “The Weight” in the most recent issue of The Boiler. 

Hannah Cohen for The Wilds. Read the rest of her thoughts here.

If you’re looking for a magazine to subscribe to, I’d highly recommend this one. 

Check out the whole issue at typomag.com

I'm happy to have one of my poems, from an ongoing series interacting with the films of Ingmar Bergman, up today in the new issue of Muse /A, with thanks to editor Gregg Murray and the rest of his team. This poem focuses on Bergman's 1953 film by the same title, "Sawdust and Tinsel." Bergman remains one of the most important writers for me—I learn so much from him about the power of images to speak soul to soul, to say what can't be said.

I’m grateful to have my poem “Good Friday” in the latest Saint Katherine Review alongside the work of a bunch of people I love and admire. 

Many thanks to poetry editor Joe Hoover for giving this one a home in the latest issue of America. 

I’m happy to have my poem “Crystal Ball” in the latest issue of Verdad, with thanks to poetry editor (and talented poet) Bill Neumire for taking it.  *Painting, also the cover of the issue, by Louis Russomanno

Thanks for reading! More to come.

(FFWGR) Last year, I was honored to be on a panel with friends and fellow writers Angela Doll Carlson, Gaelan Gilbert and Scott Cairns at the Festival of Faith and Writing. Here’s a recording of our time together, just released. 

I’m happy to have my poem “Caveat Spectator” in the new (and beautiful) issue of Wildness, based in the UK. My thanks to Michelle and Peter and the kind folks at Platypus Press. 

I’m grateful to the kind and talented Brent Newsom for giving two new poems of mine a home in the latest issue of Ink & Letters.  Here’s one from the issue:  EVERYTHING IS ALREADY INSIDE SOMETHING ELSE from the crumbs inside the toaster, to the moon inside the earth’s orbit. But much closer to home: the car is ticking cool in the garage. His keys are in the basket. And in the bedroom he’s inside her inside the dark, her familiar contours visible against the fingerprints of two calloused hands, instruments the priests won’t hesitate to tell him he should press together in silence, that one day he might find God within himself, and himself within God. Yet lying here, cooling in his sweat with her asleep beside him, he somehow knows, is sure—he already is, he already is.

Congrats to all the winners of this year’s Orison Anthology Awards, and Brandon Jordan Brown in particular! I’m grateful to have had my poem, “Burning Mount Athos,” selected as a finalist by Philip Metres (you must check out his book Sand Opera, and be sure to check out the good work the folks at Orison are doing). 

Note: On Wednesday night I went to bed early, after a long day of traveling home from abroad, and was woken early in the dark hours by my children. I lay in bed after putting them once again in theirs, unable to go back to sleep, and decided I would see what I had missed while in the air. My Facebook feed was awash in statements of mourning over the death of Philando Castile. I quickly found a story in the Times and lay there reading, in tears. When I later watched the video of what happened, the thing that came to mind was the sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. I wanted to write my own list of commandments that would amplify the message of that one, and to speak specifically to police shootings within the context of an all too familiar religious (though selectively applied) text.