Poetry


From Might Could 

Not for the,” Image

Early Star,” The Cortland Review

To-do List Found in a Pocket,” “Vase,” “Paper Tape,” & “Cup,” The Rumpus

River Now Called Cape Fear,” Orion

River Beach,” Birmingham Poetry Review

List,” 32 Poems 

Swing,” Blackbird

Blood Cup,” Electric Literature

Stem,” SWWIM Every Day

Floss,” Literary Matters

Plumule, Plumb Rule, & Plum Gouger,” Memorious

From forthcoming projects

Attempt with a Gap in It,” Bellingham Review

Attempt with a Gap in It,” (four poems), Evergreen Review

Poem in Shorthand (Spring),” Poetry Northwest Poem of the Week

“Instructions for Escape,” Electric Literature

Lines to Be Tied to Garment Tags in the Underwear Section of a Department Store,” Cordella

From Smaller Songs

Songs of the Garden,” poets.org (first published in Quarterly West)

Songs of the Inner Room,” Flock

From Ornament


Midafternoon,32 Poems

Qualifications for One to Be Climbed by a Vine,Verse Daily (first published in 32 Poems)

To Do in the New Year,Redux (first published in International Poetry Review)

Honeysuckle,Southern Cultures (first published in the Hopkins Review)

Limax maximus,” Michigan Quarterly Review

For more poems online, see Projects.

And in print at West Branch, the Cincinnati Review, Swing, Seedlings, The Hopkins Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, Southwest Review, The Arkansas International

Soon
“Candle” and “String,” forthcoming in Ploughshares
Three visual poems, forthcoming in The Iowa Review
“Spoon” and “On Dancing before Bed,” forthcoming in Poetry London
“Pencil,” in Revel


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