Selected Poems

“Front Row” and “Spring Snow” forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review
“Sustenance in His Countenance” and “How He Sees Me” forthcoming in Café Review
“Claim and Cling” published in Freshwater Review, Spring 2024
“Of Seeing Wang Hui’s ‘Clearing After Rain Over Streams and Mountains’” published in The Lowell Review, Spring 2024
“Far Away” published by the Academy of American Poets, Fall 2023
“In the Clover” published in Pleaides, Fall 2023
“An Act of the Mind” published in Five Points, Spring 2023
“Plodding Through” published in Rhino Poetry Spring 2023, Rhino Poetry Award Finalist
“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
“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 Hexaëmera”, 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” in Verse Daily
“Third Day, Friday, May 1, 1992” in Tupelo Quarterly
“Prank,” “Reading Bill Knott in Aruba,” and “The Ceremony Drowned” in Narrative
“Invocation at the Merrimack” and "Zenith of a Given Place” in Carolina Quarterly
“L'Origine du Monde” and "Resolve” in Profane
“Arthur's” in Nimrod International
“Mulch” in Salamander
“Tuggin'” in Slate
“Ballistics” in Memorious
“Deciduous” in Memorious
“Pilot Verse” in Tupelo Quarterly
“Ordeal by Water” in Iron Horse Review, Winner of the 2015 Trifecta Prize
“Nude in a Tree” and "Incision” in The Boiler
“Under Blue Blankets” in Booth
“Repose” in Southeast Review
“My Stripper” and "Lessons” in drafthorse review
“Oceanography” in Switchback
“Of the Father” in DMQ Review
“The Whale” in DMQ Review
“The Pin Monkey” in DMQ Review
“On the Rocks” in The Rumpus
“Behold, Here Is My Mark” in Missouri Review, Poem of the Week
“Bully Pulpit” in Tupelo Quarterly, finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize
"Bounce” in Breakwater Review