Poems:
Recent work that’s been published in literary magazines around the globe.
Forthcoming poems (accepted but not yet published) in:
Viridine Literary, All Else Pales 2: A Song, Emerging / Poems About Our Earth, coalitionworks, No. 10, Spare Parts Literary, & Moot Point Magazine.
Older works—not linked below— appeared in: The American Poetry Review; The Spoon River Poetry Review; Northwest Review; Quarter After Eight; Green Mountains Review; The Cleveland Review; Cooweescoowee; Sycamore Review; Sonora Review; & Hawai’i Review.
Thank you to Editor Helen Ivory, Publisher Kate Birch, & the entire staff at Ink Sweat & Tears.
“Here Were the First Flower People—Will You Be a Flower Person?”
in
Ink in Thirds, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 20, 2025
Ink in Thirds book review of And & And: March 2, 2025.
Thank you to C.W. Bryan & Grace Black.
Cover: “Ohio” by Jessica Miller
“Disclaimer”
&
”So Much to Carry & So Little Time”
in
CrayfishMag Number One, February 20, 2025
“How Often You’ve Been Captured in the Background
of Someone Else’s Photo, Selfie or Group, & Have
Never Known?”
in
Waffle Fried Volume 1: Longing, February 14, 2025
“You Know What 9am Feels Like, Right? Like, If Your Watch & All Clocks—Suddenly Worldwide—Disappeared, You’d Still Know What 9am Feels Like, Right?”
in
Ink Sweat & Tears, February 8, 2025
“Sometimes I Feel Like an Explorer During the Age of Discovery”
&
“Stephen Jay Gould’s Peripatetic Circus” (reprint)
in
Copihue Poetry, Volume 4, February 2, 2025
”What It Takes to Solve a Crossword Puzzle”
in
Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 36: December 9, 2024
”To the Poet in the Ground, Working His Way
Through Eternity”
in
Allium : A Journal of Poetry & Prose, November 1, 2024
Nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology 2025:
“Lemon Battery” originally published in
in All Existing Literary Magazine, Issue 3, April 22, 2024.
Thank you, Editors Claire Westbrook & Sonika Jaiganesh.
”Stephen Jay Gould’s Peripatetic Circus”
in
Metachrosis Literary, Issue 4, June 21, 2024
Reprint of ”Briquette”
in
The Paddock Review, May 14, 2024
“The Night I Met Reincarnated Andy Warhol at Bonnie’s Bar & Grill in Fairview Park, Ohio”
in
in JAKE April 27, 2024.
“Lemon Battery”
&
“Muscular Faith: On Five for Fighting’s ‘Superman (It’s Not Easy)’”
in All Existing Literary Magazine, Issue 3, April 22, 2024
Interior of a Restaurant, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1887
“Chez Jean-Paul: A Three-Star Michelin Journal of Poetry & Pâté Can Suck It”
in
in La Piccioletta Barca, March 25, 2024.
“Time & Rockets & Opposites”
“Ignorance of the Present”
&
“Sofia the Flying Telescope”
in
in The Groko Gazette, March 18, 2024.
“When You Think About It, Love Is Mostly Air”
in
The Broken Spine, #SelectedPoetry—March, March 17, 20224.
“In conversation with Bob King”
by
Tejaswinee Roychowdhury & Ankit Raj Ojha,
Editors of The Hooghly Review
in The Hooghly Review, March 12, 2024.
“Burning Birds & Fiery Jets: Mayday Mayday Mayday is French for Help Me”
in
in The Groko Gazette, February 27, 2024.
“Obituary from A Narcissist I Used to Know”
in
in Porch Litmag, Issue 5, February 1, 2024.
“Of the First 40 Pilots for Air Mail, Only 9 Didn’t Crash & Die”
&
“Promise Adventure”
in The Gorko Gazette’s Amelia Earhart Special, December 1, 2023.
”Situation: There’s a Pint of Ben & Jerry’s in Your Freezer. How Many Nights Does It Last?”
(Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
&
”When I Finally Began Talking to Myself In Sir David Attenborough’s Voice”
in LEON Literary Review, Issue 23, December 2023.
In 2023 editors nominated three poems for a Pushcart Prize:
Lisa Trudeau & Laurie Rosenblatt at LEON Literary Review (Boston, Massachusetts) nominated
“Situation: There’s a Pint of Ben & Jerry’s in Your Freezer. How Many Nights Does It Last?”
first published in on December 1, 2023.
Ankit Raj Ojha & Tejaswinee Roychowdhury at The Hooghly Review (India) nominated
“Rules are Rules—Until Necessity Intercedes”
first published in Issue 2, October 15, 2023.
Deryck Robertson at Paddler Press: Peterborough/Nogojiwanong’s Poetry & Art Journal (Canada) nominated
"Go to Your Local Lumber Yard"
first published in Volume 8, April 2023.
To the editors & staff members at these journals: thank you for your graciousness with my work.
I’m proud to be with you in this literary adventure.
”The Archeology of the Ampersand “
in The Rabble Review, Number 7, November 10, 2023.
”Briquette” (first published in The American Poetry Review)
”Lessons in Adaptability”
”Bridget Did the Math, & It’d Take About 6 Billion Aunts to Carry Her Off Like They Did With That Rubber Tree Plant”
in Hawakal Publishers’ WIVES Anthology, November 1, 2023.
”The Time I Brought a Vase Half-filled with Water to Bed”
”Rules Are Rules—Until Necessity Intercedes”
(Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
&
”I Always Thought That Elton John Song Went, ‘Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza....’”
in The Hooghly Review, Issue 2, October 15 , 2023.
Nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology 2024:
“When Will You Stop Trying to Live Up to the Length of Your Own Shadow?” originally published in
in Blue Flame Review, Issue 1: Tessellate, June 15, 2023. Thank you, Editor Keerthisri Kannan!
“I’m Suspicious of the Claim by the Mancuian Band James in Their Song “Laid” (1993)”
“The Sex Lives of my Ancestors”
“Pei Mei’s Takeout Menu Ars Poetica, Incompletely Cited”
in Naked Cat Lit Mag, Issue 2, September 15 , 2023.
“The Ambient Sounds of Assurance”
&
“‘We’re Taught to Faun Over Authority
and Turn Upon the Vulnerable Outside It’”
in The Gorko Gazette, September 1 , 2023.
“This Might Be the Spring She Finally Eats Our Lilac Tree”
&
“The Precision Test’s Success”
&
“In Australia, Fast Zombies Are Called Zoombies.”
in Lean and Loafe: A Journal for New Ecopoetry , August 25 , 2023.
“When the Atlantic Ocean is Gone in 170 Million Years, Where Are You Going to Fish?”
in Metachrosis Literary, August 1, 2023.
Nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology 2024:
“Wanna Know How Geography’s Helped with Anxiety?” originally published in The Gorko Gazette’ s “American Cheese Special” May 13, 2023.
Thank you, Raddy.
“They Were Only Invented in 1947, But There Are Now More Transistors on Earth Than There Are Leaves on Trees”
in The Daily Drunk Mag, July 5, 2023.
“Because the Weather Changes”
&
”The Age Where I Need to Take a Photo & Then Zoom In, in Order to Read the Fine Print”
in Gone Lawn Literary Journal, Issue 50, Buck Moon, July 2, 2023.
“On Becoming My 75-Year-Old Mother’s Medical Marijuana Plug”
in Fahmidan Journal, Issue 16, June 20, 2023.
“Like Frogs Around a Pond”
&
“When Will You Stop Trying to Live Up to the Length of Your Own Shadow?”
in Blue Flame Review, Issue 1: Tessellate, June 15, 2023.
“Dear Sadness”
&
“Prolific Ghost Fuel”
in The Parliament Literary Journal, Mortality Issue, Issue 10, June 11, 2023.
“The Compass Rose is a Liar”
in Aôthen Magazine, Issue 4, June 5, 2023.
“I Went to a Cake Shoppe Specifically Because It Was Called SLICES, But They Only Sold Whole Cakes”
in Olney Magazine, Issue 5, May 22, 2023.
“You Often Startle Awake at 3am Because Where Your Neanderthal Ancestors Lived in Caves It’d Be 9am & You’d Have Overslept Again & Everyone’s Mad at You Again Because You Again Missed the Hunt or Gather”
in Crab Apple Literary, Issue 1, Volume 2, May 20, 2023.
“There’s Documented Evidence of Telegraph Operators in the Distant & Almost Completely Isolated Operation Stations of the American Southwest Falling in Love, Despite the Century Beginning With 18, the Tumbleweeds, the Single Iron Wire, Poles Impersonating Cacti, Dots, Dashes, Omissions, Hesitations, False Starts, & At-First-Unobvious-Yet-Still-Horrific Anti-Indigenous Propaganda “
in Drunk Monkeys, Volume 8, Number 5, May 15, 2023.
“Bomb City”
“The Opposite of Anthropomorphic”
“Wanna Know How Geography’s Helped with Anxiety?”***
“Home Improvement”
in The Gorko Gazette’ s “American Cheese Special” May 13, 2023.
*** Nominated for The Best of the Net Anthology 2024. Thank you, Raddy.
“A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Self-Perpetuation”
&
“I’m a Little Late to It, but Here’s a Review of James Cameron’s Humongous, Gigantic Blockbuster, Avatar: the Way of Water (2022)”
in coalitionworks, May 12, 2023.
“It’s Magic, When Folks Don’t See the Science Behind It”
in Moss Puppy Magazine, Issue 4: Caged, May 11, 2023.
“A Review of History of the Rain by Niall Williams”
in Curio Cabinet Magazine, Issue II: Wonder, May 10, 2023.
“Mothers of America! Please Let Your Children Come Visit Cleveland!”
“Anxiety Mascot”
”Think About All the Things You’re Not Thinking About”
in Words & Sports Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 4, April 28, 2023.
“Gunga. Gunga Ga Lunga”
“My Superpower is Waking Up at 3am and Not Falling Back Asleep No Matter What I Do”
“A History of the People Who’ve Shaped Me, Even When They Weren’t Trying to Shape Me”
“Nuance Near Mount Rainier, Washington, 1947”
in Bullshit Lit, April 14, 2023.
“Go to Your Local Lumber Yard”
(Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
in Paddler Press: Peterborough/Nogojiwanong’s Poetry & Art Journal, Volume 8, April 2023.
“Mnemonic Device for the Periodic Table of Elements”
in Don’t Submit! March 24, 2023.
“Wax Management”
in Full House Literary: The Games Room, March 2023.
“Meet & Greet with Zaphod Beeblebrox”
&
“Travel Tip #3: Antarctica & Growth”
in JAKE, March 2023.
“Some Cultures Use the Same Word for Blue & Green”
&
“How Little I Know Of How Things Really Work in Florence”
in The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Volume 2, Issue 5, March 2023.
“Arithmetic Word Problem: On Turning Fifty”
“The Birds Know Why”
“When International Travel Makes You Feel Like You’re a Time Traveler”
in Spare Parts Literary Magazine, Volume 5, February 2023.
“Sometimes I Worry That My Imposter Syndrome Isn’t Good Enough Imposter Syndrome”
in The Viridian Door, Issue 2, February 2023.
“Olfactory Ecology”
in Alien Buddha Press’ Anthology, The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected, February 2023.
“The Cosmos of Small Details: When A Young Poet Asked for Advice”
featured as poem of the day at Ink Sweat & Tears, November 8, 2022.
“Distinction Without Difference“
in Emerge Literary Journal's Issue 23, September 2022.
“When Dad Asked Why I Don’t Go to Church Anymore”
&
“If the Water Molecules Making Up X Change Moment-by-Moment, Then the Banks and Locale Surely Define a River, Right?”
in Unlikely Stories Mark V, August 2022.
“Meme Machine: /noun/ Nothing More Than Cogs & Gears That Produce Cultural Replications, Fanciful Flights, and Losing Battles for Long-Term Evolution, Unless You End Up Under Glass in the Natural History Museum”
in The Dillydoun Review, Issue 19, August 2022.
“The Ships Hung in the Sky Much in the Same Way that Bricks Don't”
in Red Ogre Review, July 2022.
“Everything We’ve Taken the Time to Learn, We’ll Eventually Forget”
in Muleskinner, December 2021.
“Upon Seeing a Red-Headed Ground Beetle I’ve Decided: I’m More About Protection of the Weak Than I Am Survival of the Fittest”
in A Poetic Inventory of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, September 2021.
“At What Point Does a Superpower Become a Burden"
&
"Today Reminds Me"
in Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, fall 2021.
“Part of a Traveling Exhibition”
in Narrative Magazine, Poem of the Week, April 5, 2020.