Poems

2025 / Forthcoming

“Waking in Nebraska to the Sound of Stifled Weeping” – Grub Street Literary Review (forthcoming)

“What is Was Like to Love Solana” – Abstract Magazine (forthcoming)

“So I Know” – Abstract Magazine (forthcoming)

2024

Beyond All This” – Quail Bell Magazine (forthcoming)

I Hear You Breathe” – Quail Bell Magazine (forthcoming)

Way Too Deep to Come Back” – The Galway Review (Ireland)

Estate Sale” – The Galway Review (Ireland)

Nightstill” – The Galway Review (Ireland)

On Its Way to Something Else” – The Galway Review (Ireland)

Fragments from the Living Room: Springfield Modern Literature (India)

The Absence You’re Suddenly Aware Of Modern Literature (India)

How We Understand Death Modern Literature (India)

Street Ghazal” – Cuyahoga Library National Poetry Month Daily Writing Program (April 3, 2024).  Poem reprinted with a writing prompt

“We Live in Four Rooms” – Clackamas Literary Review

“Tremor” – Main Street Rag

The Spring We Couldn’t Stop Hurting & Never Learned a Thing– Zone 3

2020

“Solana” – Nimrod International Journal (Contest Finalist)

“This is Mathematics” – Nimrod International Journal (Contest Finalist)

2017

excerpt from “A Hole of Bones & Thread” (from In One Version of the Story) via Verse Daily

2016

excerpt from “Light on Surface” (from In One Version of the Story) via New Issues Press.

2015

I Can Tell You a True Story” – Third Coast  

Advice for the Rescuer“ – Another Chicago Magazine  

2014

Last Words” – Zyzzyva  

 “I Can Tell You a Story” – Best New Poets 2014  (anthology; original copyright in Third Coast)

2012

A Compendium of Photographs: l’Inconnue de la Seine” – Best New Poets 2012

“Let Me Tell You a True Story” – Whiskey Island

“A Dozen Riders Arrive at the Binghamton Greyhound” – Iron Horse

2011

“The Subject in Context” – Gigantic Sequins

Antiphony” – minnesota review

One Reason I Don’t Believe in Hell  – minnesota review

“Street Ghazal” – Southeast Review

“Questions for the Paris Morgue, 1880” – American Literary Review

“This is Where You Are” – Berfrois (Curated photo collaboration with Antonio Bastich)

2010

“What the City Knows” – Southeast Review

A Death Mask is a Way to Perpetuate the Transitory” – DIAGRAM

“Nudie Photo Hunt” – Hayden’s Ferry Review

“Across the Aisle, the Highway Beats as Loud”  – Hayden’s Ferry Review

“Psalm 15 as the Hurricane Takes the Roof” – Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize Winner 

“Slicing Cucumbers for Salad & the Knife Slips” – Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize Winner

“Where We Are Tonight” – Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize Winner

2009

“Mechanics” – Quarterly West

“Where We Are, Where We Are Not” – Confrontation

“Katie Calls on an Evening I Am Not Expecting” – Fourteen Hills

“Certainty of Repetition” – Southern Review

Proximity to What Comes Next” – Cimarron Review

Breaking Up With Katie Over 8000 Miles” – Beloit Poetry Journal

2008

“First Week in Catania” – Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize Winner

“Walking Home Alone, 1am” – Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize Winner 

2007

“After Buying Lunch for a Girl My Age Who I Met on a Greyhound Bus an Hour Ago” – Harpur Palate

“Night Binghamton” – Red Rock Review

“The Edge of Sleep” – Red Rock Review

2005

A Framework” – Maverick Magazine

2004

“We Name These Things Ourselves” – Poet Lore

“What Follows” – Poet Lore

“Tuesday” – Skidrow Penthouse

“Andy and I Share a Smoke” – Adagio Verse Quarterly

“Omaha Transfer” – Adagio Verse Quarterly

“My Father Outlives His Father in Years”  – Adagio Verse Quarterly

2003

“Showing My Girlfriend a Photo of the House My Parents Wanted to Build” – Rearview Quarterly

1998

“Something in Memory” – Wittenberg Review

“This Morning” – Wittenberg Review