I write poems, and from time to time, nice people publish them. To see my books, go here. Information on my poetry as it appears in journals, chapbooks, and anthologies is below!
Poems in Journals
Laurel Review (forthcoming): [Third Law]
Colorado Review (forthcoming): [The Mountain], [The River], [The Path], [The Mirror], [The Tide], [The Deer], and [The Hawk]
The Texas Review (forthcoming): [This Car is Mostly About Fun], [The Hay], and [Unmorning]
Antigonish Review (forthcoming): [Everyone Died at the End] and [Tongues Make Terrible Sweethearts]
Poems from Here : [At the Mineral and Gem Show]
Handwritten & Co. (Issue 3): [Skeleton Leaves]
Sprung Formal (Iss. 18) : [Interlude: Both God and the Devil Claim Power Over Storms], [Interlude: Invocation for a Fair Number of Victims], [Interlude: The Broken SEALs], [Interlude: On Det. Don Rhymer], [Interlude: And He Shall Appear], and [Interlude: The Lament of Hugh Mongous]
Puerto del Sol (58.1): [Wave Riding Vehicles], [Less Bitter Than Bemused]
CALYX (Vol. 33.3): [Sonnet for the End of the World]
the lickety-split (Feb. 21, 2023): [You Are A Distant Relative of the Pineapple]
The Atticus Review (Feb. 15, 2023): [Kings].
Salamander (no. 55, Fall/Winter 2022-2023: [Self-Portrait as Kraken], [Dis]
Verse Daily: [Unaccented]
32Poems (no. 39, Spring/Summer 2022): [Harvest]
The Slowdown (July 8, 2022): [A Personality Test]
Columbia Poetry Review # 34: [And Always Laughs at Your Stupid Jokes,] [C Student,] [They Can’t All Be Polar Bears,] [It’s All Wheatgrass from Here on Out,] and [Let’s Welcome our Next Contestant]
On the Seawall (Aug. 12, 2020): [Confessions of a Pareidoliac]
On the Seawall (June 30, 2020): [Cinnamon,] [I Love Your Teeth]
Pine Hills Review (June 2020): [Fiesta,] [My Un-Nerudan Despair,] [A Personality Test]
Ploughshares (April 2020): [Beautiful Now]
The Fourth River #7: [February, Maine,] [The Sides]
Court Green #16: [Shore Leave, July,] [The Poppies, the Grandmothers]
Ethel Zine Vol. 4: [Bad Exes]
Little Dog Poetry (Summer 2019): [Barn], [The Good Ship "Good Night"], [January, Maine]
Bennington Review #7: [A Late Pardon]
Apogee (Highpoint University) #56: [Sermon in a Stocking], [A Real Page-Turner], [The Blizzard], [The Boulder]
Poetry Foundation PoetryNow podcast (July 15, 2019): [Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989]
Stonecoast Review #11: [No Word for Blue]
DreamPop Journal: [Liquid Catsuit]
Map Literary: [Think Fast], [The Latin Name Means 'Rummaging Tongue'], [Scarlet Letters]
Kenyon Review Online: [We Are All Terrible], [Leaning Out of the Afternoons], [Tomorrow, I'll Tell People It Was Food Poisoning]
Cherry Tree #5 : [Typecast]
TYPO #29 (April 2018): [Sunstruck]
Sixth Finch (Spring 2018): [Where Their Hearts Were Kept], [At the Point]
SWWIM (October 30, 2017): [The Cuckoo]
The Brooklyn Rail (Jan/Feb 2017): [One Notable Problem with Despair], [Another Notable Problem With Despair], [Geographic Aspects of Despair], [Double-Paned], and [His Masterpiece]
Dusie (2016 Advent Calendar, Day 17): [The Course]
Drunken Boat (Issue 22): [Meet Aristotle]
Parcel (Summer 2015) : [A Witching Hour]
Ladowich: [A Rumor About the Queen of Spain]
Yemassee 22.1: [Blue Plate Special]
LEVELER: [The Scarlet Ibis]
Big Lucks: [Orange Crush], [Greenbacks]
Washington Square (Winter/Spring 2014): [A Change Will Do You Good]
horse less review #16: [Meet Me at Vanishing Point], [The Sun Sets Every Day]
dusie #15: [The Quick Brown Fox], [Gold Rush], [A Primrose Path]
Gondola #4: [Closer Than They Appear]
Ping-Pong 2013: [Pattern: Grandmother], [Pattern: Girafters], [Pattern: Stichblatt], [Pattern: Seagulls], [Pattern: Urwald]
Gargoyle #60: [Purple Haze]
Cartagena: [Famous American Naval Officers], [Pattern: Pillar]
The Pink Line Project: [Gray Matter]
H_NGM_N #15: [Directory Assistance], [Shortwave]
Poetry Society of America: [Red Dawn]
Conduit #24: [Gentlemen Prefer Blondes], [The Mill Stream]
Sink Review: [Whitespace], [Orange You Glad]
Verse: [Brownian Motion], [Gray Lady]
Everyday Genius: [Black Hole]
South Dakota Review: [Applause for this Shared Vigilance], [Bounded in a nutshell, yet . . .] [Love Poem in Four Drafts]
Columbia Poetry Review #25: [A Late Omen], [Doubtless]
Sprung Formal #7: [The Simile]
The Rumpus (Feb. 29, 2012): [In the Pink]
Painted Bride Quarterly #84: [Three Squares and No Funnin'], [Otter Pop Blues], [Tomatoes]
Everyday Genius: [Shinigami]
No Tell Motel (April 25-29, 2011): [How to Get Out of Dodge], [Bucky Follows a Cold Trail], [All in Your Head], [A Crooked Mile], [Can It, Mr. Eastwood]
Propeller (Winter 2011): [The WONDERS of My ENCHANTED GARDEN], [Clarity], [You vs. The Castles of Blue]
Phoebe (Spring 2011):[Atmospheric], [Dogsbody], [The Worst That Could Happen]
The Equalizer #1: [Pattern 4: Mothballs and Sugar], [Pattern 7: Captain Cook], [Pattern 8: Jack Tar], [Pattern 16: Treetops], [Pattern 18: Industry], [The Past Isn't Over], [Jackpot]
Hotel Amerika Vol 6, Issue 2: [Shielded from the sun's thick orange blot], [The Zenith's reruns are interrupted]
Poor Claudia #3: [Malleus Maleficarum], [A Pathetic Fallacy], [Now We See Things Face to Face], [Becoming forgetful, we apply], [The orange is a sweet fruit. It grows]
LUNGFULL! #18: [Sturm Sans Drang], [Last Frontier]
Barrelhouse #8: [Theatrical lightning over the bar], [Say Uncle], [Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor]
So-and-So #2: [High in soft mountains, where indigo], [This actress right for screaming--]
A Handsome Journal #2: [The zenith revels in shadow's heyday],[Dogs bark on a barge on the river at night], [Your army swills down the country lanes]
Beltway Quarterly, Vol. 11, Issue 1:[Sea Shanty], [The Captain], [Ye Mariners of England]
Saltgrass #4: [There Will Come the Great Reshelving], [Damn the Torpedoes]
6X6 #18: [Figure 2.31]. [Figure 3.3 - Pointed Pip], [Figure 4.21 - Colonnade], [Figure 5.18 - Automation], [Figure 3.1 - Zodiac], [Figure 4.7 - Spectators]
LIT #15 : [Loosed to their own devices, islanders], [Across the river, the horizon curdles]
Open Letters Monthly (May 2009): [The Path of Least Resistance], [Sleepwalker]
The Hat #8: [At first, heartbreak made me beautiful], [A fox-shaped car rolls through], [Sail Bait]
LocusPoint (DC Edition): [Sailor's Warning], [Educational], [Lambing time at the Hotel Cordillera], [This is how stalagmites build, meaning], ["A Total Victory For Chaos"]
Bird Dog #10: [Theory Has Nothing on Practice], [And Now, the Monster], [Peace for the Poor Student of History], ["Like the 1950s, Without the Barbiturates"]
Beltway Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 2: [Permanently 1975], [Steve McQueen on His Motorcycle], [The Meat Magi], [Up She Rises], [Superman Would Like to Come Down Now]
Foursquare Special Edition: [The Parameters of This Relationship], [In the Valley of the Shadow of Macrame], [At the End of the Day, We've Got Each Other], [If the World Were Perfect, We Would All Smell Like This], [Revelations of the Bad Hotel Room] (See a review here!)
Listenlight #11: [Argonauts], [Eglantine], [Iditarod], [Optimus Prime] [Ulster]
Coconut #11: [Miscues in the greenery - can you find], [The politician wins the debate by proving], [I halve the rooster's heart again]
Boog City #37 (The Baseball Issue) [Tho' John Olerud Should Walk in the Shadow...]
The Hat #7: [Meditation at Five-Thirty], [Ye Mariners of England]
String of Small Machines (September 2007): [Typewriter keys in abandoned places], [A fantasy of annexes], [An infancy provisionally set]
Hot Whiskey # 3: [The rain catches them on their way back home], [In a role reversal, the dramatis personae], [The ship's propeller churns the rough.], and [Say it with flowers. Bottlebrush aplenty.]
Foursquare #1.2: [Four from Lovely Osip]
Listenlight #5: [Comparisons of unlike things: yesterday's], [The man in the boater and the woman], [Waxy fingers lay gray gloves], [Waist deep in the river, I hear]
Cannibal #2: [Commerce Leaves Us in the Dust], [Prayers for the Occasionally Happy]
Small Town #10: [Valentine], [Skin], [A Prophet Among His People]
Drill #7: [Sea Theology], [To Comprehend the Scientific Temperament], [Pineapple Honeymoon]
Kulture Vulture #4: [Darla's Journey, Jessica's Hope], [Sea Shanty]
Upleasant Event Schedule (March 2006): [Panthers], [Just Calm Down], [Them Dreary Black Hills]
Typo #8: [History of Time]
La Petite Zine #19: [He Ate the Sandbox]
Octopus #5: [The Blue Ox], [And the Invitation Read: Payable on Death], [Monster Island Domestic Drama: Already in Progress]
Goodfoot #6: [Riddle]
The Tiny #1: [The Robot]
Poetry Less Than Daily (April 28, 2005): [What's Your Number?]
No Tell Motel (January 17-21, 2005): [Time Warp Girl], [Another Reason Mom's Not Welcome at the Wives' Club], [Rumor Has It Her Bedroom Window Is Locked from the Outside], [Homecoming], [The Recruiting Videos for the Japanese Navy Have Song-and-Dance Numbers]
Painted Bride Quarterly #74: [The Eyepatch], [The Pirate Cure], [The Daughter of Israel Hand]
LIT #9: [Too Late Now]
Muse Apprentice Guild (Summer 2004): [This Verse is Closed]
Canwehaveourballback #19: [Calamity Pays the Piper], [It All Comes Down to the Sweet Science]
Exquisite Corpse #14: [Max Ernst], [Calamity Speaks to the People]
Chapbooks
The Woman, The Mirror, The Eye
Bloof Books 2015
Mayport
Poetry Society of America 2006
A Good Attitude
Flying Object 2014
Novelty Act
Ugly Duckling Presse 2004
from “On Dreams”
Dusie 2013
Twenty Questions for the Drunken Sailor
Dusie/flynypntar press 2009
Poems in Anthologies
Cape Cod to Nova Scotia: Art, Ecology, Poetry of the Gulf of Maine
Storey Press 2027
Read to Me Some Poem: 20 Years of Longfellow Days Poems
Moon Pie Press 2024
The Meat Book
How Whiskey Press 2006
The Book of Scented Things
The Literary House Press 2014
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel
No Tell Books 2006
Full Moon on K Street
Plan B Press 2010
A Slice of Cherry Pie
The Private Press/Half Empty - Half Full 2006
The i.e. Series Reader
Narrow House Press 2009
Aubergine
Josh Corey 2004
The Manifesto Project
Cleveland State Univerity 2017