Publications

2026

“Desert Hearts, 1985,” Poetry Magazine (forthcoming)

“alien & mechanic & uncanny,” and “When your roots run deep,” Prairie Schooner (forthcoming)

“O my floating life,” Poet Lore (forthcoming)

“Ode to Knowing,” and “On Sweetness,” Sugar House Review (forthcoming)

“Ars Poetica with Midlife Dating and Wyatt and a Murder Ballad,” and “Kissing Amelia Earhart in the German Patisserie Parking Lot,” slips slips (forthcoming)

2025

“Ruin Porn,” Salt Hill Journal

“ars poetica with lost Mexican city,” Shō Poetry Journal

“Partial Listing of My Jealousies,” “ars poetica with a broken bucket,” “I am cultivating my field of no’s,” Painted Bride Quarterly

“Invocation,” Poetry Daily

“Woman Peeing in a Barn,” Gulf Stream Magazine

“My Body Is an Archive of,” Asterales

“Ars Poetica with Birth Ledger,” “Ars Poetica with Lye Soap,” “Ars Poetica with Fishhooks, Two Lakes, and a Lure,” “Ars Poetica with Deer Hunting of Two Kinds,” “Now that I’ve loved you through the calendar year,” “Love Poem with Horses,” Salvation South

“ars poetica with a gun” and “Like a Horse Running at the Gate,” West Trade Review (forthcoming, print and online, respectively)

“‘Virginia seemed like always night.’ David Lynch,” Slow Orbit

“The Lily Crucifix (c1450),” “Swallows,” “Bird Song Sounds Out of Tune Only to the Human Ear,” periodicities

“Poem with Split-Level Home and Pleasure,” “Animal Boundaries,” and “Brief Catalog of Blue,” Screen Door Review

“Artist’s Statement in a Mountain Cabin” and “Broken,” Up the Staircase Quarterly

“Writers in Love,” and “It is better to say ‘I am suffering’ than ‘this landscape is ugly.’ Simone Weil,” slips slips

2024

“With Hands Over Our Faces and Laughter in the Grass” and “last night I was sexting and reading June Jordan,” Black Lily Zine (print only)

“Partial Listing of My Kinks” and “Novgorod is a Thousand-Year-Old City Whose Name Means New,” The Raleigh Review (print only)

“Tornado warning of my heart on a clear day,” Psaltery & Lyre

“I Like to Think Emily Dickinson Would Read The Ethical Slut under an Umbrella by the Pool,” Dusie

“In December,” Stone Circle Review

“Happy Easter You Sonofabitch,” featured on VerseDaily

“Happy Easter You Sonofabitch” and “I want to ride through the cornfields,” Iron Horse Literary Review (print only)

2023

“How People Tell Time is an Intimate and Local Fact About Them,” River Mouth Review

2022

Denver Quarterly, “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” and “We usually only recognized our kin when there appeared from behind a large bush out in the field”

Diode Poetry Journal, “The House” and “The Painting Above My Therapist’s Head”

Psaltery & Lyre, “The Body is Water and the Water has Origins” and “Self-Portrait as Dreadnought”

Cave Wall, “When My Grandmother Barbara Jean Was Dying, My Mother Sat On Her Bed and Played House of the Rising Sun on Her Guitar, Because It Was the Only Song She Knew”

2021

Poetry Daily, “Larks”

The Iris Murdoch Review, “The Flaying of Marsyas” and “Poem with a Pair of Fighting Hawks and Iris Murdoch”

Poet Lore, “Without Chickens”

Sweet Literary, “Poem With a Wall Between East and West”

Sycamore Review, “Morning Tasks in Vermont”

You Are the River (North Carolina Museum of Art anthology), “The Artist Declines to Explain the Compositions of Storks”

UCity Review, “Poem with a Fairy Tale, Nesting Hawks and Space,” “Poem with Hundreds of Flowers,” “Poem with a Doe and Running in the Park,” “Poem Beginning with a Couplet from Wang Wei,” “Poem with a Stanza for Each Tree in My Yard,” “Away from the Pines for a Week at the Outer Banks”

Up the Staircase Quarterly, “Larks”

Poetry Northwest, “My Love Snakes the Shower Drain to Keep My Feet from Standing Water”

2020

Verse Daily, “The Lives of My Childhood” (originally published in Cherry Tree)

Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “Why the Names of Flowers” and “Vulture”

Kenyon Review, “Love as a Succession of Absences,” “Poem Beginning with a Line from Claudia Rankine,” “Locusts or Complaint as Protest” (Hear the poems)

RHINO Poetry, “My Mother’s Brown Plaid Drapes”

On the Seawall, “When Someone Says a poem is Masterful” and “Isabel”

Cherry Tree, “The Lives of My Childhood”

Malasaña, “Poem with Winter and New Mattress and Hawk”

2019

The National Poetry Review, “If Childhood Were According to Berries and Flowers”

Ethel Zine Vol. 3, “Syllables like Leaves or a Small Treatise on Fate”

Southern Humanities Review, “A Visitor Says Things are Rotting in Durham, NC”

The Baltimore Review, “Tractors”

Parentheses Journal, “How to Function in an Anxious State” and “The Grammar of Gendered Appropriation”

2018

The Greensboro Review, “I want the plainest things”