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Poems/Essays/Memoir

Poetry

"Peniaphobia," Poetry:
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"Adoration," "Angeli," and "Another Life" in New Letters:
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"Sinkhole Sonnet," and "People with Bridges on Them," diode:
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Selection from “When Wendy Asked What We Dream,” (20-page sequence of 16 poems) American Poetry Review:
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"Abandon" and "The Woven Child":
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"Hatches Harbor," About Place Journal, Black Earth Institute:
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"Twelve Wings" and "Mother of the Holy Hope" in Plume Poetry Journal:
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"Salem, May," The Indianapolis Review:
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"Rape Kit," The Indianapolis Review:
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"Useful Everyday Phrases," Southeast Review:
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"blessed are the dead that the rain rains on," Verse Daily, originally published in Cutbank:
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"Mary Rohan's Mother," Cortland Review:
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"Taxonomies, Vinyl:
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"Little Wing," Verse Daily:
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"Year One," Cagibi:
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"The Strangers Were Poets," SWWIM:
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"The Lost Museum" and "Goodbye to A," Plume Poetry Journal:
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"Mirror of the Invisible World," Plume Poetry Journal
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"River of Grass," Cincinnati Review
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"L'Amoureuse" appeared on the back cover of the May/June 2016 issue of American Poetry Review
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"Hour" No Tokens
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"Natalie Said," What Rough Beast
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"Earth Stars," "My Life is Not a Riding School," "booby trap," Green Mountains Review
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Five poems in diode
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"Miss Nebraska Dissects a Shark for Science Education," Linebreak
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Four Poems in Redux: "Shark Capital of America" from Opium,
"The Face of Jesus" from Ploughshares, "Estate" from Gulf Stream,"Second Language" from Florida Review
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"Swerve," Poetry
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"The Boy With His Mother Inside Him," The New Yorker
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"Ode to My Toyota," Poetry
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"Oh dont," "The City of Your Final Destination," and "Untitled (People on Fire)," Witness
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"Loud House," Best American Poetry blog, from 32 Poems
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"Five Kingdoms," "Eviction," "Ode to My Toyota," from Five Kingdoms, Anhinga Press
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"Anniversary," AGNI
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"early," "Hill Street," and "Reading Room, Worcester," Connotation Press
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"Runaway Queen," AGNI
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"The Face of Jesus," Ploughshares
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"Talk About Failure," Ploughshares
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"Pinhole Camera," "Pool," "The Night Sky," "Marguerite," "City of Shoes," "When I Was the Moon," from Underwater City, U Press of FL
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"Write a Poem That Scares You," Memorious
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"Greenough's Pond," Memorious
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"St. Rita's," Memorious
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"Part of a Song," "Errata," Konundrum Engine Literary Review
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"Little Wing," Verse Daily, from Diagram
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"Twenty Reasons I'm Afraid To Kiss People on the Cheek," "Little Wing," Diagram
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"Meeting the Beekeeper," "St. Petersburg," storySouth
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"Far Fallina," "The Nun Hotel," "Community Sleep Disorder Clinic," and "Ode to Time," Superstition Review
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"Fire with Fire," "Three Men with Guns," Perihelion
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"Hotel Dieu," Sweet
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"One Evening," Clackamas Literary Review
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"Book of Lifesavers," Heliotrope
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"Late As It Is," Asheville Poetry Review
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"Coat," "Black Feathers," from Luckily, Anhinga Press
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"1970, etc.," Country Dog Review
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Essays/Memoir

"Island," Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2024, Issue 100, # 1:
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"Tideland," New England Review:
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"Blood and Water: Poets Writing Nonfiction," AGNI:
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"The Year Without Summer," About Place Journal, Black Earth Institute (Special Mention in 2021 Pushcart Prize XLV Best of the Small Presses):
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"Interstate," Another Chicago Magazine (Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022, ed. Alexander Chee):
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"Emerald City, Hunger Mountain Review:
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"Star Tables," River Teeth (Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021)
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"The Great Spirit of Inventiveness, Guest Editorial, Terrain.org:
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"Live Music," Punctuate:
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"Stone Baby," Zone 3
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"The Cartographer's Assistant," New Orleans Review
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"Journals in Ice," The Common
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"How to Make a Shoe," AGNI
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"Palindrome," Brevity
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"The Other Nana: A Memoir," Brevity
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