selected Poems and other writings

“Graduated” in Narrative

“Of the Act of the Mind” in Five Points

“Wonder Woman ‘84” in The Night Heron Barks

“Fake Animal News” in Love’s Executive Order

“Real Life” in American Literary Review

“again” in the Rise Up Review

“Saving Throw” in Love’s Executive Order

“Thirteen” in On the Seawall

Said the River When I Begged for Her Song” and “Sapphic” in On the Seawall

“The Adorned Fathomless Dark Creation,” “Getting Out,” “Boys Beyond June,” “Legend” winners of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize

 “Said the River When I Begged for His Song” in BODY

“River Valley Hexaemera”, winner of the Poetry by the Sea’s Sonnet Sequence Contest

“Hannah in Effigy” in OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters

Autobiography” in The Common

“Winter Break” and “Ghazal: Augumtoocooke” in The American Journal of Poetry

"High School Reunion" (Verse Daily)

"Third Day, Friday, May 1, 1992" in Tupelo Quarterly

"Prank, Reading Bill Knott in Aruba, and The Ceremony Drowned" (Narrative)

"Invocation at the Merrimack" and "Zenith of a Given Place" (Carolina Quarterly)

"L'Origine du Monde" and "Resolve" (Profane)

"Arthur's" (Nimrod International)

"Mulch" (Salamander)

"Tuggin'" (Slate)

"Ballistics" (Memorious)

"Deciduous" (Memorious)

"Pilot Verse" (Tupelo Quarterly)

"Ordeal by Water" (Iron Horse Review, Winner of the 2015 Trifecta Prize)

"Nude in a Tree" and "Incision" (The Boiler)

"Under Blue Blankets" (Booth)

"Repose"  (Southeast Review)

"My Stripper" and "Lessons" (drafthorse review)

"Oceanography" (Switchback)

"Of the Father" (DMQ Review)

"The Whale" (DMQ Review)

"The Pin Monkey" (DMQ Review)

"On the Rocks" (The Rumpus)

“Behold, Here Is My Mark” featured as The Poem of the Week for Missouri Review, Winter 2016

“Bully Pulpit” finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, published in Tupelo Quarterly, Winter 2106

"Bounce" published in Breakwater Review, Winter  2016

 

Books:

Tender the River, Texas Review Press (2021)

The Wounded for the Water, Salmon Poetry (2018)

Club Icarus, University of North Texas Press, Vassar Miller Poetry Prize Winner, selected by Major Jackson (2013)

Cameo Diner: Poems, Loom Press, August 2005

 

Anthologies:

Poem “Ballistics” published in Poets Showcase by Hobblebush Books, 2015

Poem “Tuggin’” selected for Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s 2013 Common Threads series

Poem “Club Icarus” published in New California Writing 2012, Heyday Publishing, 2012

 

Poems:

“Paint” published in 32 Poems, Spring 2016

“And This Story” published in Florida Review, Spring 2016

“Mulch” published in Salamander, Spring 2016

"High School Reunion" published in Crazyhorse, Spring 2016

“Behold, Here Is My Mark” featured as The Poem of the Week for Missouri Review, Winter 2016

“Bully Pulpit” finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, published in Tupelo Quarterly, Winter 2106

"Bounce" published in Breakwater Review, Winter  2016

“Shod” finalist for the Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest, to be published Fall 2105

 “Pilot Verse” finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, Tupelo Quarterly, Spring 2105

“This Tune Goes Manly” winner of the River Styx Micro-Fiction Award, Fall 2015

“Ordeal by Water” winner of the Trifecta Poetry Prize, Iron Horse Review, Summer 2015

“Resolve” selected by the Southeast Review for a special feature, “Raising our Voices, Claiming our    

            Words”, Winter, 2015

“Repose” to be published in Profane Literary Magazine, 2015

“L’Origine du Monde” to be published in Profane Literary Magazine, 2015

“Heat Index” published in Briar Cliff Review, Spring 2015

“My Stripper” published in Drafthorse Review, Winter 2015

“Lessons” published in Drafthorse Review, Winter 2015

“Nude in a Tree” published in The Boiler, Winter 2015

“Incision” published in The Boiler, Winter 2015

“Of the Father” published in DMQ Review, Winter 2015

 “Symbols” published in Southwest Review, Spring 2015

“Three Center Two Electron Bond” published in Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2014

"About the Deck an Idiot" published in New Guard Review, finalist for Knightville Poetry Prize, Spring 2015

 “Under Blue Blankets” published in Booth: A Journal, Summer 2014

“Tips for Dove Hunters” published in the Found Poetry Review, Spring 2014

“Pals” published in Naugatuck River Review, Winter 2014

 “Oceanography” published in Switchback

 "Club Icarus" published in Harvard Review, New California Writing 2012, and Poetry Daily

“Tuggin’” published in Slate

“Descent of Man” published in Notre Dame Review

 “Partus” published in The Mom Egg

“The Beauty of a Nail" appeared in Literary Imagination

"Draglines" published in Literary Imagination

"Asante" published in New Guard Review, finalist for Knightville Poetry Prize

"Still Falling" published in New Guard Review, semi-finalist for Knightville Poetry Prize

"A Taking Out" published in Naugatuck River Review

“Aruba, One Happy Island” published in Entelechy International

“Like Superman” published in Entelechy International

"Ashes" published in Cafe Review 

“Under A Bridge” published in Sea Change

“Wahine” published in Sea Change

“Deciduous” published in Memorious

“Ballistics” published in Memorious

“The Whale,” published in DMQ Review

“The Devil Watches the New Idol Tryouts” published in PN Review

“Hierarchy of Paradise,” published in Third Coast

“Identity Strip” published in Entelechy International

“The Pin Monkey” published in DMQ Review

“The Florist” published in Poems Niederngasse

“Gravediggers Union” published in Poems Niederngasse

“Coloring,” published in Renovation Journal

“Mechanics,” published in Renovation Journal

“White Seven Christmas Carol” published in Renovation Journal

“Dear Inventor Lover,” published in The Offering

“The Yucca Hunters,” published in The Offering

“At the Chadwick Music Festival,” published in The Offering

“The Plows” published in The Offering

“Playing the Mnemonica” published in Entelechy International

“The Blades” published in the Connecticut Review

“The Mute” published in Renovation Journal

“The Loop,” published in Entelechy International

“Periscope” published in Entelechy International

"Morning Sickness", published in the Connecticut Review

"Piscatory Diner", published in the Beacon Street Review

 

Essays:

“On the Rocks” published in The Rumpus

Winter Surfing,” “What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?” “Coloring,” and “Christmas Grunts,” “Tales of a Season Ticket Holder,” “The Last Star Wars,” featured on Sunrise 91.5 WUML

“Satori Highway” published in Literary Traveler, Fall 2000.

 

Reviews:

A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Can Teach Us About Justice by Kenji Yoshino, published in The Exeter Bulletin, Fall 2011

Can Poetry Save the Earth? by John Felstiner, published in The Exeter Bulletin, Fall 2009

Lampblack and Ash by Simone Meunch, published in Mantis, spring 2007

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer, published in Mantis, spring 2007