Kyle McCord

In a few days, I’ll be in Boston.  You can find me at the iO: A Journal of New American Poetry table at Y1 or at the LitBridge table at Q27.

I’m also excited to be reading at:

Gold Wake Press Reading–Wed. March 6th 6:00-9:00 at Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston

Author Signing at K13 for Gold Wake Press from 12:00-2:00

iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Interrupture, and Jellyfish–Thurs. March 7th 6:30-8:30 at Sweetwater Tavern, 3 Boylston Place, Boston (Hosting)

Salt Hill’s AWP Extravaganza–Thurs. March 7th 7:30-9:30 at Fajitas and ‘Ritas, 25 West Street, Boston

Pony Show: Readings from the Dream Horse Press Stable–Fri. March 8th 8:00 at Aviary, 28 South Street, Jamaica Plain

Kraken Eats Boston Alive–Sat. March 9th 7:00-10:00 at Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge

I’m thrilled to announce that my third collection Sympathy from the Devil has been accepted for publication by Gold Wake Press for release in 2013. I couldn’t be more psyched!

Informal Invitiations to a Traveler by Jeannie Hoag and me is now available for pre-order and will be released in a few short weeks.  You can pre-order it at bn.com (Barnes and Noble), Amazon in a week or so, or, even more awesome, your local bookstore.

The link for BN is here: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Informal-Invitation-to-a-Traveler/Kyle-McCord/e/9780982630990/?itm=2&USRI=kyle+mccord

Thanks so much to Brian Mihok,  Jared Michael Wahlgren, and Gold Wake Presss for doing such amazing work!  Check it out!

A review of my first book, Galley of the Beloved in Torment, is up at the Colorado Review’s Center for Literary Publishing!

Check it out here.

I’m honored that literary critic Kristina Marie Darling would choose to examine my work with such care and do such an incredible job.

Thanks so much to Kristina and also to the folks over at CLR!

The Des Moines Register Newspaper was kind enough this week to feature me and the Younger American Poets Reading Series in their business section!

Check it out here.

Also our next reading is coming up this Thursday, March 3rd at 7 pm, Beaverdale Books. It feature Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander, Seth Abramson of the MFA Blog/TSE, and Editor of Pismire Ezekiel Black.

Hope to see you!

I’m pleased to announce that my book of collaborative poems Informal Invitations to a Traveler has been accepted for publication by Gold Wake Press in 2012! My co-writer Jeannie Hoag and I are thrilled to be a part of Gold Wake’s outstanding collection.

This will be my second full-length collection of poems, following Galley of the Beloved in Torment in 2008 from Dream Horse Press. Thank you to everyone over at Gold Wake. Details to come!