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