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Publications
- Barren Magazine, August 2020 – “Poem in Which My Body is a Ransom”
- Eunoia Review, August 2020 – “It’s My Birthday and I’m Thinking About Death”
- Stirring – A Literary Collection, Spring 2020 – “Traveling North with Grief”
- Linden Avenue Literary Journal, March 2020 – “To Make Sense of This World Again”
- Jelly Bucket, Winter 2020 – “Monsieur Degas is Going Blind,” and “Telling the Family There is Nothing More They Can Do” (print journal)
- Chiron Review, Winter and Fall 2020 – “Flight,” “Seven Ways of Looking at a Shooting,” and “Peacock Hill” (print journal)
- PanoplyZine, January 2020 – “What Words Cost”
- Main Street Rag, 2020 – “Definition of Middle Age,” “Hunger,” and “From the Balcony” (print journal)
- Sky Island Journal, Winter 2020 – “Tangles” and “Shopping for Sweaters”
- Ghost City Review, October 2019 – “Advice after Losing a Spouse”
- Remington Review, September 2019 – “Darker”
- Door is a Jar, October 2019 – “Nightfall,” and “Therapy” (print journal)
- Spank the Carp, Spring 2019 – “The Pact”
- The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Spring 2019 – “Marbles” (print journal)
- Boxcar Poetry Review, Winter 2019 – “Begonia”
- Subprimal Poetry Art, December 2018 – “Into Morning“
- Synaeresis Arts + Poetry, December 2018 – “A Dream,” and “Facts about Lightning”
- Note: “Facts about Lightning” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- Tule Review, December 2018 – “Welfare Office” (print journal)
- Note: “Welfare Office” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- Dragon Poet Review, August 2018 – “Hematology” and “First Winter Morning”
- Anomaly Literary Journal, June 2018, Issue 6 – “Losing a Son,” “Running” and “The Minotaur’s Last Interview”
- Number One 2018, Fall 2018 – “Playing Dead,” and “Photograph of Home” (print journal)
- Mojave Heart Journal, June 2018 – “Letter to Andrew from Flagstaff,” “The Silence,” and “Hypnosis by Landscape”
- The Comstock Review, Summer 2018 – “What Your Mother Taught You About Love,” and Winter 2018 – “Dear Pieces of My Broken Youth” (print journal)
- The Hunger, Spring 2018 – “Sun and Rain”
- Negative Capability Press, April 2018, National Poetry Month Daily Facebook Posts – “Letter to David from Onyx Cave” and “Letter to Stephan in Wiesbaden from the Exchange Student”
- Wisconsin Review, 2018 – “Gone Again” (print Journal)
- Sky Island Journal, April 2018 – “How to Spell America”
- Note: “How to Spell America” was nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize
- Sheila-Na-Gig Online, 2018 – special issue: 50/50 Editors and Poets from 50 States – “On Hold,” “Letter to Beth from Vermont,” and “Letter to Victoria from Monteagle Mountain”
- The Inflectionist Review, Spring/Summer 2018, Number 7 – “Unknowing” (fragment)
- Noctua Review, Winter 2018, Volume XI – “Letter to Debbie from the Lincoln Park Zoo”
- Ristau: A Journal of Being, January 2018 – “An Ending,” and “Postcard to Shelley from Sanibel Island” (print journal)
- Note: “An Ending” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- WINK: Writers in the Know, Fall 2017 – “Loving a Dying Man” (print journal)
- BlazeVOX, Fall 2017 – “My Name is . . .,” “Postcard to my Father from the Mojave Desert,” “The First Time I Ate Oysters,” and “I Won’t Call This a Love Poem”
- Streetlight Press, Issue 2, Summer 2017 – “At the Retreat,” and “Postcard to Laura from Eureka Springs”
- Forage, Summer 2017 – “There”
- Mud Season Review, 2017 – “Kitchen,” “The Small Book of Virtues,” and “Calligraphy”
- Note: “Calligraphy” was nominated for Best of the Net and was named a Finalist
- Wildflower Muse, July 2017 – “My Father is a Poem I’ll Never Write,” and “Split”
- WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, anthology, 2018 – “Blue Moon and Bright Mars”
- Sheila-Na-Gig Online, July 2017 – “Anniversary,” “Stillborn,” and “Child on a Balcony”
- Note: “Stillborn” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- Oyster River Pages, August 2017 – “Available Light,” “Between Us,” and “Visit from my Lost Child”
- Note: “Visit from my Lost Child” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- The Hungry Chimera, 2017 – “Ripples” and “Keep the Hand Moving” (print journal)
- Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, 2017 – “Peach Iris” (print journal)
- CEO Literary Magazine, January 2017 – “Photograph” and “Love Poem”
- Daphne Magazine, 2017 – “Tributaries”
- Chautauqua Journal, June 2017 – “Anthem”
- Treehouse, An Exhibition of the Arts, August 2016 – “Ghosts Use Logic to Convince My Mother They Exist,” “Synesthesia,” and “Religion”
- Number One, 2016 – “Wabash,” “Fair Park,” and “Morning” (print journal)
- Rivers Within Us, October 2017 – Poetry chapbook of 30 poems, Unsolicited Press
- Phoenix Soul, July 2016 – “Austin, Texas”
- River and South Review, 2016 – “Advice” and “Laundry”
- Heartbeat, March 2016 – “If Only”
- Euphemism, 2016 – “Tattoo” and “Discovering Sex”
- Firefly Magazine, Summer 2016 – “Night in June”
- Courtship of Winds, 2016 – “Dream Whisperer,” “Eucharist,” and “Most of All”
- Qu Literary Magazine, Spring 2016 – “Driving West Across Montana”
- Loveliest Magazine, Summer 2016 – “Selfie” and “Eve Finds Adam Asleep in the Garden”
- Gambling the Aisle, March 2016 – “Parallel Parking”
- Poems on Loss Anthology – Little Lantern Press, 2016 – “Caldwell Lane”
- Lindenwood Review, Issue 6, June 2016 – “Pentimento”
- POEM, May 2016 – “Kyrie Eleison,” and “Lost”
- Icarus Down Review, January 2016 – “Did I Ever Tell You”
- Through the Gate, 2016 – “Pomegranate”
- Gnarled Oak, Issue 6, Winter 2016 – “Frost Flowers”
- Feminine Collective, December 2015, January 2016– “To Kiss a Married Man,” “Once,” and “To the Human Barbie, From Barbie”
- Hypertrophic Literary Magazine, Winter 2015 – “How We Fit”
- Spirit Wind Poetry Gallery, October 2015 – “The Ladder,” “Sunrise,” and “From Lightning”
- 4Ink7, 2015 – “The Black Ant”
- Clementine Poetry Review, 2015 – “Revival”
- Big Muddy, 2015 – “Dimension of a Dream”
- Main Street Rag, 2015 – “Red Summer”
- Apeiron Review, Summer 2015 – “River Man”
- Red River Review, May 2015 – “Friends”
- Pilcrow & Dagger, March 2015 – the poem “Collage” and the mixed media art piece “Fly Free.”
- The Presence of Absence, December 2014 – Poetry book of 40 poems, winner of the 2014 Janice Keck Literary Award for Poetry
- Rose Red Review, Autumn 2014 – “The Sex Life of Swans”
- Number One, July 2014 – “Morning Practice,” “Color Wheel,” and “In Sickness”
- Third Wednesday, Winter 2014 – “Coda”
- Fields Magazine, Winter 2013 – “Waino and Plutanor”
- POEM (#110), November 2013 – “Splitting Atoms” and “Memorial for Stephanie”
- Flycatcher Journal, January 2013 – “The Chicken House”
- Number One, 2013 – “Three to Six Months,” “Miss Landmine,” “Fracture”
- Continuum, July 2012 – poetry chapbook of 24 poems published by Finishing Line Press
- Number One, 2012 – “Five Weeks,” and “The Taxi”
- Trajectory, Summer 2011 – “Smoke and Mirrors”
- Slant, Summer 2011 – “Oracle”
- Because I Said So – Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenthood, 2011 – “Night Terrors,” and “Eleven”
- Number One, 2011 – “Sometimes When I Look at You,” “On Finding a Photograph of Myself as a Child” and “Turning”
- POEM (#104), November 2010 – “Studying Scupture, I Pose Myself,” and “The Lullaby,”
- Number One, 2010 – “Photograph of Grandmother, 1938,” “His Mother’s Hands,” and “Haunting”
- Motif vol 2, Come What May, 2010 – “Charmer”
- Third Wednesday, Fall 2010 – “Sins of the Father,” and “In the Broken Places”
- Yemassee, Spring 2010 – “Common Miracles”
- POEM (#102), November 2009 – “Sit with Me” and “Lying Down in the Garden”