Just in time for Halloween, the Horror Writers Association is releasing their annual anthology of dark verse.  My poem “Peter Pumpkin Eater’s Most Delectable Carving” is in good company in the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XI. 

I wrote this poem after watching a video about pumpkin carving—it’s an amazing art, one at which I demonstrate absolutely zero skill.  In fact, I get a little squeamish at all the textures and smells.  Good fodder for a horror poem. 

Also, this past summer my family went to Enchanted Forest, a beloved amusement park near Salem, Oregon, that I grew up visiting.  I just had to get a photo of the aforementioned nursery rhyme character.