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Writings Featured Online

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• "The Direction They Were Headed," a short story, published by The Galway Review

• "Fly in Our Salad" read on Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown

• "One-Legged Pigeon" featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry

• "O, Trout" published in The Penn Review

• "Horace, I Dream of Watches" reprinted on Verse Daily

• "Driving All Night" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac

• Blog post on "Horace, I Dream of Watches," published in The North American Review

• Three poems - The Iowa Source

• "Pretend It Was Just the Wind" - The New Yorker

• "Summer Leaves" - West Texas Literary Review

• "Gray Water" - The American Journal of Poetry

• "Because It Is Cold and Nightfall Comes" - Duende

• "A Flock of Starlings" and "Fishing in the Rain" - Juxtaprose Magazine

• "Husbandry" and "The Lost Boy" - American Journal of Poetry

• "Music from a Farther Room" - The Massachusetts Review

• "The Falling Man" - Pif Magazine

• "Forgetting" - Green Linden

• "Flying Saucers" - Poetry Daily (first published in Salamander)

• "The Maine Attraction," essay, The Christian Science Monitor

• "Uncle" - Poem of the Week, The Guardian, UK

• "Purgatory Chasm" and "The Temple Toggle" - The American Journal of Poetry

• Poem in Your Pocket Day - "A Glossary of Chickens"

• "Conch" - Poems in Profile, Ireland

• Four Poems - The Galway Review

• "All the White" - The American Journal of Nursing

• "Heat Lightning" and "Returning to Iowa" - Shenandoah

• "Shoring Up" - The New Criterion

• "Cordon Sanitaire" - American Journal of Nursing

• "Loons" - Pif Magazine

• "Making Love in the Kitchen" - The New Yorker

• "Soldier Course" - The New Yorker

• "Sleeping with My Dog" - Pif Magazine

• Feature on Verse Daily: "Ararat"

• Feature on Poetry Daily: "Lot's Wife"

• "Lot's Wife" - The New Yorker

• "A Glossary of  Chickens" - The New Yorker

• "Sisyphus" - Beloit Poetry Journal

• "Picking Pears" -  Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac

• "First Year Teacher to His Students" -  Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac

• "The Garden" - On Verse Daily

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Articles and Interviews

• Interview on The Massachusetts Review blog

• Feature in New Jersey Monthly

• The Anchor newspaper, Rhode Island College

• NEA Today - Profile

• The Inner Music Blog - Interview with Michael T. Young

• "High School Teacher Makes His Mark Among International Poets at Princeton Poetry Festival" 

• Spotlight: Princeton University Press Blog

• Connotation Press - Hoppenthaler's Congeries - An Interview and Four Poems

 

Residencies

• Blue Mountain Center

• The Heinrich Boll Cottage

• The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award

• Article on the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award

• Dispatch from PEN Northwest (a short piece on the Boyden residency)

• Mesa Refuge

• Marble House Project

 

Awards

• Bergen County Teacher of the Year

• Anne Halley Poetry Prize, The Massachusetts Review

• New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

• Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship in Creative Writing

• Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching

     Award

• Rebel Seed Entertainment Adapted Screenplay Competition

     (finalist)

• Sow's Ear Press Chapbook Award