Another review of If Your Matter Could Reform is up on GoodReads, as well as on the reviewer’s blog:
And of course the print version has now been released:
With shipping, to U.S. addresses, the total should be $6.00. The shipping to international addresses will, I’d imagine, vary.
Leigh Ward-Smith has been kind enough to post a review of my chapbook on her site, Leigh’s Wordsmithery: https://leighswordsmithery.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/poetry-review-robert-okaji-if-your-matter-could-reform/
Dink Press has released the digital version of my chapbook, If Your Matter Could Reform. The print version will be available on April 19.
“Apricot Wood,” which is included in my forthcoming chapbook , If Your Matter Could Reform (Dink Press, April 2015), has been reprinted on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily:
Dink Press: https://dinkpublishing.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/dink-press-2015-publishing-catalog-as-of-2915/
My chapbook, If Your Matter Could Reform, is scheduled for release in April as Dink Press’s initial publication in its National Poetry Month Series.
https://dinkpublishing.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/dink-press-2015-publishing-catalog-as-of-2915/
I’m very pleased, as you might imagine. Many thanks to Kristopher Taylor for accepting the manuscript. Let the celebration begin!
Matt Larrimore, editor of Four Ties Lit Review, interviews me:
http://fourtieslitreview.com/home/interviews/interview-with-robert-okaji/
I’ve three poems appearing in Boston Poetry Magazine: http://bostonpoetry.wordpress.com/tag/robert-okaji/
I’m pleased that my poem “Trains” has found a home in the current issue of Lightning’d Press.
Pages 35-36
http://www.lightningdpress.com/current-issue1.html
I am delighted that three of my poems are included in Boston Review’s National Poetry Month Celebration:
http://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/npm14-robert-okaji-three-poems
This calls for a toast:
No, no, not that. This:
Cheers!
Quite the interesting mag back in the day. This particular issue saw the likes of Bukowski, Ivan Arguelles, Lyn Lifshin, Norm Moser, Sheila E. Murphy, and, well, me, among others. I was thinner back then, as was my poetry.
no more than
the slow grace
of light turning
the leaf so
patient in the
air and colder
now that sense
of permanence unfurled
it is not
long to wait
as Wang Wei
said in his
letter I listen
for a sound
but hear none
O at the Edges 