The 2012 Dark Sky Books Poetry Contest is now accepting submissions.

I’m a huge fan of long sentences. I enjoy reading a sentence that seems afraid of what will happen when it reaches a period.

Glenn Blake’s Return Fire is set, like his first collection, Drowned Moon, along the rivers and bayous of east Texas, where families, legends, memories, and entire neighborhoods sink into the subsiding land and rising waters of natural and man-made disasters . . .