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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,” “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,” “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” “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 PressPhoenix 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 ,”“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 Pilcrow & Dagger The Presence of Absence 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 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 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 POEM (#102), November 2009 – “Sit with Me” and “Lying Down in the Garden”