Poetry


From One Thing Only (forthcoming from Bull City Press, 2027)

“Glass,” The Common

“Candle” & “String,” Ploughshares

From Might Could 

“Prayer” at Only Poems Daily

“French Walk,” Literary Hub

“Rondine of things seen in the river” & “Your body is,” Oxford American

“On Dancing before Bed,” Poetry London

“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

“Instructions for Healing Within View of Those Who Have Wished You Harm,” the Bitter Southerner

“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, Poetry London


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