Poems Forthcoming and Recently Published
Forthcoming
"The Valentine I'm sending my middle school sweetheart" Copper Nickel, forthcoming
"How I would describe the anatomy of a heron", "The valuations of certain family values"
and "How a country can lay claim to having a people" Witness, forthcoming
"This is what it feels like when I'm telling the truth" and "We know what we're doing!" Pleiades, forthcoming
"A city on the edge of a wilderness. It's called Gigantic." American Letters & Commentary, forthcoming
2012
"Don't think like the mountains. They're nothing like the future." Ploughshares, Spring 2012
2011
"It's OK to be optimistic" & "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth" H.O.W. Journal 8, Fall/Winter 2011
"The responsibility of being an only child" The Believer October 2011
"I know Hephaestus, it's tough loving love" Boston Review National Poetry Month feature
"A word of kindness" & "There is wisdom to smothering" Denver Quarterly 45.4, 2011
"Vesuvius, there are easier ways to make friends" Minnesota Review 77, 2011
"Since when did Mathematics have all the answers" & "Only water is meant to be breathing" Memorious Issue 16, 2011
2010
"When you can't build a city fast enough" Missouri Review online, 2010
2009
"Truth is an emotional logic" Cimarron Review 168, Summer 2009
"To make the apocalypse easy" The Journal 33.1, Spring/Summer 2009
2008
"I can't believe they could take a train into a mountain" Colorado Review 33.3, Fall/Winter 2008
"Desire is light & heavy" & "Confessions from a reticent sailor: The yarrow is gold like the sun" Laurel Review 42.2, Summer 2008
"Calenture (2)" "Vacationing in Florida", "The Word of God is a subtlety", "They dream only of America", "Devotion is too much like this river" Tampa Review 35
"Life as metaphor for an ember" St. Louis Post-Dispatch March 17, 2008
"A rose and a rose to make roses" Mississippi Review 36, 2008
"Spoon or a convenient place setting" AGNI online, 2008
"Serendipity, or How I would insinuate an explosion" Third Coast Spring 2008
"Intimacy can be a strange motion" The Literary Review 2008
2007
"There is an anatomy to trust" American Literary Review Fall 2007
"And the ox will prove itself grateful" Greensboro Review 82, Fall 2007
"This arrangement of impatiens" New Orleans Review 32.2
"If the manna could taste of honey" Smartish Pace 14
