Selected Poems Available Online:
“Hey Oracle–Tell Me About John Henry” (2025) in The Coachella Review
“Arietta Melancholia” (2025) in Heartwood Literary Journal
“Velocities of a Yard” (2025) in The Citron Review
“Hand Weeding” (2025) in The Talon Review
“Atonia, Eve of St. Mark,” “Early Easter” (2025) in Vita Poetica
“Scene from Columbo“ (2025) in Vilas Avenue
“Flight Path, St. Louis,” “Hudson Yards” (2025) in City Key
“Keeping the Meridian,” “The Changing Light at Plainsboro” (2025) in Ilanot Review
“Man With a Parrot,” (2024) in Welter
“Amphion” (2024) in Menagerie
“Riverside Park, After Light Showers” (2024) in 1922 Review
“Dumey and Son Office Equipment” (2024) in Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy
“Not In Ourselves” (2024) in Portland Review
“The Sentinels of Straus Park,” “The First Cool Day” (2024) in Thirteen Bridges Review
“Jumping the Turnstile” (2024) in Third Wednesday
“The City Ideal” (2023) in Ekphrasis Magazine
“Gunnison River, Black Canyon” (2023) in Plum Tree Tavern
“Congregations of the Savannah,” “The Enigma of Amsterdam Avenue,” “The First Plague” (2023) in The Tomahawk Creek Review
“Green Acre” (2023) in Compass Rose Literary Journal
“Construction” (2023) in La Piccioletta Barca
“He-Balsam,” “Impressions of September Corn” (2023) in Paperbark Literary Magazine
“Crow” (2022) in Fauxmoir
“The Begonia and the Blue Jay” (2022) in Meniscus Literary Journal
“Civic” (2022) in Quibble
“De-Winter,” “Lines from New York, On the Massachusetts,” “New River, Pandemic” (2022) in The Write Launch
“After Goliath,” “Before the Vanity,” “Over an Abandoned Courtyard” (2022) in untenured
“Curt Flood in Copenhagen” (2021) in Words & Sports
“Church Softball” (2021) in The Under Review
“Susquehanna, Cooperstown, 2019” (2021) in Change Seven Magazine
“North River, Hudson Beach,” “Wedding of the Waters” (2021) in Cathexis Northwest Press
“Autumn Fog, St. Croix River,” “Kennebec Mission,” “Motif at Nineveh Creek, Indiana” (2020) in Wild Roof Journal
“Mucalinda” (2020) in River Heron Review
“Pine on the Penobscot” (2020) in The Maine Review
“Ice on the Androscoggin” “Interior Sea,” “New Harmony” (2019) in Burning House Press
“Major Works” (“Binding the Waters”) (2019) in LETTERS Journal
“Reclamations” (“Recuperacions”) (2019) in La Presa
“Mormon Boys Dancing to the Drummer in Prospect Park,” “The New Madrid Fault” (2017) in Review Americana
“code noir” (2017) in whirlwind
“American Beeches” (2016) in Plum Tree Tavern
“The Clearing” (2016) in Plum Tree Tavern
“On the Billy Graham Freeway” (2015) in Still: The Journal
Selected Poems Available in Print:
“St. Margaret, Bridgeport” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (2025)
“á Campus, Late July” in Appalachian Review (Summer/Fall 2024)
“An American Lot” in Appalachian Review (Summer/Fall 2024)
“No Cirri” in Appalachian Review (Summer/Fall 2024)
“Old Couple in an Old House” in Appalachian Review (Summer/Fall 2024)
“Pittsburgh (Fabrications)” in Appalachian Review (Summer/Fall 2024)
“Methods in Rising” in Clockhouse (2023)
“Gee’s Bend—Pettway” in The Heartland Review (Spring 2023)
“Aids to Navigation,” “South River, Kittatinny,” “South River, Trenton” in Inkwell Literary Journal (Spring 2022)
“The Seventh Plague,” “The Tenth Plague” in Consequence (Spring 2022)
“Waltz for Debby” in High Shelf Press (March 2022)
“Scioto After a Thunderstorm” in Worcester Review (2021)
“Running After Dawn, Tallasi” in New Mexico Review (Fall 2021)
“Eleutherian Mills” in Broad River Review (2021)
“Collapse of the Thruway, Schoharie Creek Bridge” in Crosswinds (2021)
“Little Missouri Overlook, Theodore Roosevelt National Park” in Spoon River Poetry Review (Summer 2020)
“The Easter Pageant Roman Soldier” in COBALT (2019)
“Riverside Park Invasive” in Jelly Bucket (2019)
“Bradford Pears on the Church Grounds,” “The Order of Comediennes,” “Panthera” in Cimarron Review (Summer 2018)
“Below the Line,” in cahoodaloodaling (2017)
“Yemoja and Oshún: A Topography” in Alligator Juniper (2017)
“Strangers’ Gate” in W.B. Yeats Society of New York
“Offender” in American Journal of Poetry (2017)
“Francesco on Black Friday” in Mississippi Review (Summer 2016)
“Country Gods” in Kestrel (2016)
“Nativity Scene on the Courthouse Lawn” in Appalachian Heritage (2016)
“The Psychic in Atlantic City” in Adanna (Fall 2015)
“The Discovery Center” in Nassau Review (2014)
“Hubble Creek” in Berkeley Poetry Review (2014)
“Experience at Princeton Junction” in Episodic (2013)
“A Heartland Neighborhood” in Broad River Review (2013)
“Passing Over” in Chaffin Journal (2013)
“Summerkill” in Big River Poetry Review (September 2013)
“The Remains of Amelia Earhart” in The Appendix (2012)
“The Feast of Saint Anthony” in Sugar House Review (2011)
“The Nannies in the Library Café” in Blue Collar Review (Winter 2010/2011)
“Cairo” in Potomac Review (2010)
“Carpetbaggers,” “Muscular Christianity—The Mirror Stage,” “The Painter Tries to Write a Poem,” “Percolations of Divine Love,” “A Visit to Jonathan Edwards’s Grave—After Study” in Red Clay Review (2010)
“God Shed His Grace” in Ruminate (2010)
“Opening Our Eyes During Prayer, Tuesday Night Bible Study” in The Litchfield Review (Spring 2009)
“And Then One Day” in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley (2003)
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