Writing
Poetry
“Not for the,” Image
“Early Star,” The Cortland Review
“Attempt with a Gap in It,” Bellingham 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
“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.
Print only
“Rules for Proximity” & “HITCH WORLD,” West Branch
“Wish for Continuance,” The Cincinnati Review
“Endearment (precious)” and “Plumule, Plumb Rule, & Plum Gouger,” Seedlings
“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 International, Sewanee Review, South Dakota Review, Southern Cultures, Southern Review, Subtropics
Soon
“Candle” and “String,” forthcoming in Ploughshares
“Common,” forthcoming in The Hopkins Review
Three visual poems, forthcoming in The Iowa Review
“Spoon” and “On Dancing before Bed,” forthcoming in Poetry London
“Pencil,” in Revel
“Wooden Spoon,” in Swing
“Marsh Rose, Primrose, Leatherflower,” in The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (Paloma Press, in collaboration with Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and Poets for Science)
Essays
“New Methods in Tooth Brushing,” the Common online. Named a notable essay of 2021 in The Best American Essays
“‘This resonant, strange, vaulting roof’: Contemporary Sonnets Beyond Iambic Pentameter,” Annulet, and in The American Sonnet (University of Iowa Press, 2023)
“‘And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,’” Every Atom: Reflections on Whitman at 200, North American Review online
“What Can I Give You?,” Contributors’ Marginalia on Maggie Smith’s “Love Poem,” 32 Poems
“Wake Up!,” Contributors’ Marginalia essay on Zeina Hashem Beck’s “Adhan,” 32 Poems
“Five Poets of Place,” Vela
“Durham Main Post Office,” in In Quire, Picture Postcards project
“Falling Through the Screen,” American Scientist
“Serious Nonsense: Edward Lear’s natural-history illustration won him scientific credibility. Now his nonsense verse may do the same,” American Scientist
“Book Reviewing in the Sciences: A Conversation,” American Scientist
“Epic Science: At an international colloquium this September, researchers will tell the story of science poetry’s evolution,” American Scientist
“Savory Individuals: A field study reveals new evidence for airborne communication in sagebrush plants,” American Scientist
