Poetry


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

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

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

Swing,” Blackbird

Blood Cup” & “Instructions for Escape,” Electric Literature

Stem,” SWWIM Every Day

Floss,” Literary Matters

Plumule, Plumb Rule, & Plum Gouger,” Memorious

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.

In print

“Endearment (turtle dove),” Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Annual

“Climate Picture,” Live Canon’s 2024 Christmas pamphlet

“Bell,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum

“Petunia,” “Bringing in the garden on the night of the first frost,” & “After Taking Out a Splinter,” the Georgia Review

“Aubade at the Summer Solstice, with Language Study and Work Clothes,” the Gettysburg Review

“Productive,” Poetry Northwest

“Prayer,” Southwest Review

“Marsh Rose, Primrose, Leatherflower,” Arkansas International 

“Scissors,” Asheville Poetry Review

And at 1110, the Denver Quarterly, the Florida Review, Measure, Nelle, Poetry InternationalSewanee Review, South Dakota Review, Southern Cultures, Southern Review, Subtropics

Soon
“Candle” and “String,” forthcoming in Ploughshares
“Endearment (precious)” and “Plumule, Plumb Rule, & Plum Gouger,” forthcoming in Seedlings
“Rules for Proximity” & “HITCH WORLD,” forthcoming in West Branch
“Common,” forthcoming in The Hopkins Review
“Early Star,” forthcoming in The Cortland Review
“Not for the,” forthcoming in Image
“Emerald,” forthcoming in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology 
“Attempt with a Gap in It,” forthcoming at Bellingham Review
Three visual poems, forthcoming in The Iowa Review
“Wish for Continuance,” forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review


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