New Poetry & Prose Published in Spring 2025!

Other People's Mothers released September 2, 2025

Quick Change Artist has won the silver medal for poetry in the 2025 Florida Book Awards!

Upcoming Literary Events:

I'll be reading from Quick Change Artist: Poems in Asheville, NC, with Bruce Beasley and Susanne Paola Antonetta on Sunday, February 22nd at 1 PM and from Other People's Mothers in Louisville, KY, with Paul Griner on Thursday, February 26th at 7 PM!

AWP Baltimore, March 4-7, 2026

Thursday, March 5--

AWP Book Fair, Fourth Genre booth, Signing from 10:00-11:00 AM

AWP Book Fair, Harbor Editions booth, Signing with Denise Duhamel from 12:00-1:00 PM

Off-Site Event, Reading fiction at Pickles Pub, 5:00-8:00 PM

Friday, March 6--

AWP Book Fair, Texas Review Press booth, signing from 10:00-11:00 AM

Off-Site Event, Reading poetry at Vinyl + Pages, 5:00-8:00 PM

Old News, Good News

Here's a video of me reading my poem"When I Was Straight" for the FIU MFA faculty reading series:

Check out a reading and interview I did with the Stonewall National Museum & Archives here.

Take a look at my micro-memoir "Yentl," published in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction here.

One of the happiest pieces of news I've received in recent months is that my hybrid-forms project P*R*I*D*E won the inaugural Hunger Mountain Chapbook Prize. It was released during June 2020 (Pride Month!) in a limited-edition volume (with stunning cover designed by Kelly McMahon) to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting by name and likeness.

“This collection of poetic microessays is the hybridity we need right now—lyric & narrative, real & imagined, fierce & tender, in love with the world & critical of it, so much fun & deadly serious. I admire Wade’s range of timbres, the ways this collage makes me feel validated & seen, & how much PRIDE makes me hopeful for a better future.”

—Erin Stalcup, Hunger Mountain Editor

For a short video demonstrating how perfect this book looks, click here.

And after this video inspires you to learn more about the book designer, check out May Day Studio in Montpelier, Vermont.

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