Poetry (Forthcoming)
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- “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” in Bennington Review
- “In Bed with Green Gels” in North American Review
- CHAPBOOK – The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering (collaborative poetry written with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson) at Aureole Press
- “Placatory Congregation” in Heavy Feather Review (written collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson)
- “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” in The Boiler (written collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson)
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Poetry (Selected) *Linked titles are available to read online*
- “Hawk Shadow Here to Help” in The Kenyon Review
- “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” in American Poetry Review
- “You’re So Gross and I Love You” in the anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift published by Ballantine Books
- “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists” in Verse Daily (first published in Colorado Review)
- (Full-length Craft Essay) “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life” in American Poetry Review
- “Birds and Stars Suite” in Blackbird
- “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” in The Normal School
- “Air Damp As the Back of the Throat” and “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up” in The Iowa Review
- “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides & Glass” in The Inflectionist Review (written collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson)
- “Yonder” in The Cincinnati Review (written collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson)
- “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” in Diode (written collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson)
- “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground” in Mid-American Review
- (Full-length Lyric Essay) “Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?” in Alaska Quarterly Review
- “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” in Fugue
- “Night but Unlike Night” & “Peel the Black Walnut Bark like Small Fists in our Fists” in Colorado Review
- “Red Birds the Size of Fists” in Zone 3
- “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” in Moon City Review
- “Sunlight Spun on Spools” in Postcard Lit Issue 1 (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale)
- “Don’t Fall” (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in Idaho Review
- “How the Sun Got Crushed That One Monday” in Conduit
- “The Body the Fact of It” and “Great the Light Failing Again” in Diode
- “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted” in Tampa Review
- “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” in Fugue
- “Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife” in LIT
- “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” in 32 Poems
- “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” in the North American Review
- “Sneaking Back Inside” featured at Poetry Daily
- “Birds Come in Two Basic Sizes” and “Fugus Beneath the Bark, Oil” in Terrain.org (with audio of me reading them)
- “Groundhog Full of Yellow Roses” in RHINO!
- “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down,” and “We Are Different in This Room” in Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal
- “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out” in Sweet: A Literary Confection
- “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in New South
- “The Island Designated Yes” (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in The Shore
- “Circuitry Suite” commissioned by Compagnia de’ Colombari for the Whitman on Walls Anthology & performance August 2022
- “A Crumb of Wind” and “Here Beside Us with Us” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in CutBank
- “Flavorfest, Sparkle Supreme, Seascape, Eversweet” “How Many Exoplanets Will It Take” and “Pinkies and Stumpies” in Court Green
- Interview with me about my second book in the print edition of Rain Taxi vol. 27 no. 1. Spring 2022
- “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns” and “That’s Me When That’s You” in West Branch
- “Our Dust Collection in Great Demand,” “I’ll Wait Here In Steam I Make Myself” and “We Come from the Orchard Eating” (collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale) in The Laurel Review
- “Look! Fruit!” (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale) in Bat City Review
- “Stop Doing That” in Broadsided Press‘ first 15 years anthology
- “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute” in Barrow Street
- “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Rest of Your Life” in The Los Angeles Review
- (Lyric Essay) “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in the Bellingham Review
- “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” in the New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press
- “Let Go Inside Let It Out” in Salamander
- “Blood in the Air” in The Greensboro Review
- (Lyric Essay) “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” in Southeast Review
- “The New Avenues the Only Avenues We Have” in Witness
- “A Mushroom Now and Then Pushing Through the Needles,” “Taking One Spoon of Earth,” and “Wispy and Withstanding Storms” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in The Rupture (formerly The Collagist)
- “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in Denver Quarterly
- “Black Bean Sauce” and “Like a River Stood on End” in Cherry Tree
- (Microfiction) “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” in the Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology (See me read the story on my new YouTube page!)
- “What I’m Left With” in The Iowa Review
- “As If It Didn’t Need Me” in DIAGRAM
- “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather” in Smartish Pace
- “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” for the Show Us Your Papers anthology from Main Street Rag
- “Until the World Cracks in Half,” “Last Bites Mostly Your Own Saliva,” and “Say that Again” in Sou’wester
- “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” in Zone 3 Literary Journal
- “Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” in The Cortland Review
- “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music,” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths,” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake” in Bear Review (collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale)
- “Spoiled Persimmons Crash Against the Opening” and “Water Falling Down” in diode issue 12.2
- “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” in Hobart
- “I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too” in Poetry Northwest
- “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” in Gulf Coast
- “It’s Something People in Love Do” in Terrapin Books‘ anthology A Constellation of Kisses
- “The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse” in Arts & Letters
- “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors” in Raleigh Review (2020 Pushcart Nomination for “Waves Frozen…”)
- “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” in The Cincinnati Review (with audio)
- (Lyric Essay) “Root That Mountain” in The Florida Review (CNF Meek Award winner for 2018!)
- “Shelter Awhile” and “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands” in Colorado Review
- “I Smell the Dirt All Around Me and Above” in Pleiades
- “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin” in Sixth Finch
- (Micro-fiction) “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals To Get at the Good Stuff” in The Spectacle
- (Lyric Essay) 900’33” in Essay Daily
- “Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us” in Blackbird
- “In Small Significant Ways We Are Horses,” “To Keep At Least Partially In the Air,” and “We Are Many People Some Okay” in Alaska Quarterly Review
- “It’s Something People in Love Do” in the 2018 Pushcart Anthology (Previously Published in Sycamore Review)
- “To the Dirt Which Will in Time Consume Us All” in Narrative Magazine
- “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in The Massachusetts Review
- “We Live on a Foreign Planet This One” and “Sneaking Back Inside” in cream city review
- Collaborative prose poems, written with the poet Dustin Nightingale, in Bayou Magazine
- Collaborative prose poems, written with the poet Dustin Nightingale, in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press)
- “A Small Choir of Sour Voices” and “I Am a Speaker You Are Vibrating” in Southern Indiana Review (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale)
- “On a Foreign Planet Surrounded by Sugar Maples” and “Bats and Applesauce” in the North American Review
- “One Push on Top Is All It Takes” in Passages North
- “A Lot Going On Up There” Poem of the Week (December 11, 2017) at Narrative Magazine
- “The Sky We Want to Reach Up and Press Our Thumbs Into” and “One Theory of What’s Happening Out There” in Meridian
- “The Low Crumble of Distant Applause” in The Laurel Review
- “Shadows of Blackbirds on Our Arms” and “Let’s Arm Ourselves with Supple Skin” in Southwest Review
- “Every Day a New Planet” in Jellyfish Magazine (Collaboration with Dustin Nightingale)
- “35 Parts Per Thousand” and “Good Morning!” in (Collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) Hotel Amerika
- “Elegy for the Travel Agents” at Verse Daily July 18, 2017 (First Published at Southern Indiana Review)
- (Lyric Essay) “Strike Anywhere” in Quarterly West
- “These Seagulls Are Better More Gullier Than the Ones in the City” in Crazyhorse
- “Elegy for the Travel Agents” and “Beaver Lake” in Southern Indiana Review
- “We Might As Well Be Hovering” in The Iowa Review Blog
- (Lyric Essay) “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough” in Passages North (Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology)
- Six poems featured in the Missouri Review issue 39.4
- “The People Who Live Near Us Are Our Neighbors” in Ploughshares
- “Save the Receipts For a Kind of Diary” in Hayden’s Ferry Review
- “What Can I Do?” in Quiddity
- “Right Like Yellow Along a Banana” in The Laurel Review
- My first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015)
- [Not a poem] My personal essay “An Elephant Walks Into a McDonalds” in Boulevard
- 3 Collaborative Prose Poems in Pith (Written with Dustin Nightingale)
- “A Fern Uncurling in Her Skull Is Not an Answer Or a Reflection” and “I Love Where I Am Right Now” in Gramma (2 collaborations with Dustin Nightingale)
- “When Looking at Old Photos Only Makes It Worse” (Collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in Jerry Issue 11 – including a collaboration statement
- “It’s Something People In Love Do” in Sycamore Review
- “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” and “At First It Buzzed Then Even the Buzzing Stopped” in Mid-American Review
- “The Hay Out There and the Hay in You” in Phoebe (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
- “A Recognized Maritime Signal for Distress” and “How Is Knowing That Supposed to Help” in Slice Magazine
- “But I Live Here (Empty Place)” in Cider Press Review
- 2 Collaborative Prose Poems (Written with Dustin Nightingale) in Horsethief Issue 8
- “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot” (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale) in Ghost Ocean 19 – with audio
- “I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale) in Barnstorm – with audio
- “Otherwise Inexplicable Animation to the Forms Above” in The Collagist
- “The Mutual Building” in Rattle issue 52 (with audio)
- “When Mom and Dad Have Had It for the Night,” “Hello Everyone I’m One of You Now” and “We’re Here Don’t Forget Us” in Public Pool
- “Bring Me With You” in Columbia Poetry Review
- “A Mud Puddle Shaped Mud Puddle,” “Lunch Hour Is an Hour of Our Lives,” and “The Stars Are Out and They’re Trying to Get Your Attention” in Pool
- “Raising the Titanic” and “I Think That Guy Came With a Violin On His Back and Wants To Play a Song” in elsewhere (collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale)
- 3 Collaborative Prose Poems & an Interview in Wildness Issue 5
- “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” Two Peach (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale)
- “Brush Aside the Noise with Locks of Matted Hair” in The Boiler (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale)
- “We Give Ourselves New Medals (We Give Ourselves a Chance)” in Poetry Northwest
- “Holding My Head in Both My Hands” and “We Were Doing Fine and Then We Disappeared Peacefully” in The Journal
- “He Must Have Gone To Sleep Eventually” in The Southampton Review
- “We Come Here Every Day So You’ve Already Won” in River Styx(Honorable Mention 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest, judge Andrew Hudgins)
- “The Sweet of Being Made Right” in Sixth Finch
- “Saving Myself (For Something)” and “We’re Actually Fabulous” in Fairy Tale Review‘s Ochre Issue (“We’re Actually Fabulous” nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize)
- “And Me with Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” and “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in DIAGRAM
- “The Automatic Door Will Open Even For You” and “Over and Over Until We Actually Die Which Is Tomorrow Eventually” in Another Chicago Magazine
- “Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in Radar
- “Gluing the Teapot Back Together Anyway” and “Run For Your Life But Don’t Forget To Tie Your Shoe” (collaborations with Dustin Nightingale) in JuxtaProse
- “Setting Things Around Me Free” (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in Red Paint Hill – with audio!
- “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” in The Doll Collection, a poetry anthology from Terrapin Books (first published in Subtropics)
- “Fetch Me That Jimson Weed” in Flash Flash Click
- “9 Lives and 8 Legs” and “In My Dreams I’m in a Small Capsule Spinning Free” in Powder Keg Issue 7 (collaborations written with Dustin Nightingale – with audio!)
- Five prose poems from my sequence “The Little Book of Monsters” in Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence from The Marie Alexander Poetry Series
- “Barely Managing the Houseplants Thing” in Redivider
- “As If Hurtling” in The Greensboro Review
- “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” (with audio) in Rattle issue 50 (2015 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist, selected as one of the Most Powerful Stories of 2015 by Story Magazine, and Runner-Up for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award)
- “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” in Crab Creek Review (semifinalist for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize)
- “The Construction of a Massive Concrete Dam” in Zone 3 (collaboration written with Dustin Nightingale)
- “Wings Like Powerful Versions of Me” in New South
- “Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners” in Witness (read an interview about this poem on Great Writers Steal)
- “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old” featured at Verse Daily June 11, 2015
- “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like” in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art issue 53 (winner of 2015 Poetry Competition, selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly)
- “Gathering a Few Facts” in Best New Poets 2014
- “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” in Booth online and print issue #9 (Shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize)
- Finalist for the 2015 Rumi Prize in Poetry from Arts & Letters
- Three collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale in Souvenir
- Six collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale in Jam Tarts
- “You’re Welcome To the Rest” in Salt Hill
- “Mostly It’s Me Taking” in The Hollins Critic
- “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” in Subtropics
- “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” featured on Verse Daily, July 8, 2014
- “Creation Myth” in Prairie Schooner
- Three poems in the anthology Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios (Ohio University Press)
- “Nobody Is Ever Missing” in Barrow Street
- “On Mother” in Barrelhouse‘s comedy issue
- “Almost the Woods” and “There’s Always Abracadabra,” (written in collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in The Chattahoochee Review Fall/Winter 2014
- Two poems in the anthology Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, Ice Cube Press (2014)
- “The Weight of Everything” in inter|rupture (written in collaboration with Dustin Nightingale)
- “Even The Best of Us Are Generally Waiting” in The Pinch
- “The Nearness of You” in Ninth Letter
- Two collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale in Whiskey Island
- “Back From the Edge of Hunger” in Third Coast
- “A Raising” in Rappahannock Review
- Five collaborative prose poems written with the poet Dustin Nightingale in Toad Suck Review
- “Incredible Journey” (a collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale) in Beecher’s
- “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” featured on Verse Daily, July 14 2013
- “Kindling Me” in Salamander
- Five poems in The Gay Head Lighthouse Anthology
- One poem in Quarter After Eight
- “Only Better (Black Moths),” “Thomas at Home in the City,” and “If You Must Know” in Paper Darts
- One poem in Cream City Review
- “Single Male Seeks Someone Who’ll Stay” & “Sword Swallowers in Transition” in The Minnesota Review
- “Sword Swallowers in Transition” nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize
- “If Only I’d Thought of It” in Nashville Review (2013)
- “Apparently, I’m Not a Joiner” in B O D Y (2013)
- “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” in The Southeast Review (2013)
- “A Marriage Made on the Dining Room Floor” in Gargoyle (2013)
- “Still Life with Plums” in Poetry East (2012)
- “How We Make It Home Eventually” in The Los Angeles Review (2012)
- “The Tale of the Clerk and the Miniature Desperado” in Kugelmass (2012)
- “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me” in NAP (2012)
- “This Year Will Be Your Last” & “On Top of an Already Losing Personality” in Painted Bride Quarterly (2012)
- “Little Buzzings” (a collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale) in Yemassee (2012)
- “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” & “New Year’s Resolution TBA” in SCUD (2012)
- “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” in The Bakery (2012)
- “I Keep a List of What I Must” at The 22 Magazine Blog (2012)
- “She Rattles Dishes” & “Grasslands” in On the Cusp (2012)
- Our Apple Trees” in Thrush Press Broadside Series (2012)
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“Stop Doing That” reprinted in Broadsided (2012)
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“Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling” in Spillway (2012)
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“(They Were) There All the Time” in Crate (2012)
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“Done Playing Hard To Get” at The Nervous Breakdown (2012)
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“Me in My Place” in Cellpoems (2012)
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“All Purpose Me” & “The Wrestling Coach Taught Us Health” in Forklift, Ohio (2012)
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“(This Town Is) Barely Managing To Hold It Together” in Tar River Poetry (2012)
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“These Summer Nights in December” in Fourteen Hills (2012)
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“Caterpillars and Grass Snakes,” “The Exact Opposite of Exile” & “No, I Will Not Be Your Girlfriend” in NANO Fiction (2012)
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“Free Verse” & “You Can Always Buy a New Dress” in Arts & Letters Prime (2011)
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“A Little Quantum Physics Can Be Dangerous” in The Lumberyard, Issue 8 (2011)
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“Help! I’m Floating!” in The Cortland Review, Issue 46 (2010)
- “Improving the Odds” in Everyday Genius (2009)
- “Sure, You Always Land On Your Feet” in Inch Magazine, Issue 10 (2009)
- “Science Fiction Family” in Faultline: Journal of Art and Literature (2009)
- “Stop Doing That” in Poet Lore (2009)
- “Emily, It’s Better This Way” in Arsenic Lobster, Issue 19 (2009) – Reprinted in Print Anthology & Verse Daily (9 Sep 2009)
- “In Time To Save a Life” in Arsenic Lobster, Issue 19 (2009)
- “The Forlorn Sound of Reveille” in Cutthroat (2009)
- “I Never Intend to, How ‘Bout You?” in Harpur Palate (2009) – Reprinted in Verse Daily (26 Nov 2009)
- “Leapt Upon From a Great Height” in Ghoti (defunct) (2008)
- “In This Reality, You Exit at the Next McDonalds for Fries and a Shake” in The Cincinnati Review, Issue 4.2 (2008) – Reprinted at The Writers Guild at Bloomington Weekly Reading
- “Infinite Divisibility Is a Nice Idea” in The Cincinnati Review, Issue 4.2 (2008)
- “Preparing Phoenix for Dinner” in Stone Table Review (defunct) (2008)
- “She lifted her arms but she wasn’t surrendering.” & “The Salvation of Edna” in Permafrost, Vol 29 (2007)
- “A Look at Our Dangerous Friend” & “Being Necessary for the Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy” in Juked (2007)
- “First Indications (of Trouble at the Ranch)” in NOÖ Journal (2006)
- “Cuckold at the Zoo” in Burnside Review (2006)
- “At Smalls, When Everybody Shuts Up and Listens” in Spout Magazine (2006)
- “Wasting Disease on the Frontier” in I-70 Review (2006)
- “Typical, Really” in Redactions (2005) & Nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize – Reprinted in Coal City Review (2006)
- “The Delicate Balance of Maple Avenue” in Lawrence Journal-World (2005)
- “Bedtime Story for Vicious Parents” in Whistling Shade (2005)
- “Love Is a Revolutionary Act” in Zygote in My Coffee (Featured Poem of the Week) (2005)
- “I Can’t Thank Her Enough” in My Favorite Bullet (2005)
Broadside
- “Our Apple Trees” | Thrush Press Broadside Series (2012)
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“Stop Doing That” | Broadsided (2012)
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“Happy Birthday to Me” | Architrave Press Edition 2 (2012)
Interview/Article
- Articles & Interviews
- Rain Taxi Spring 2022, vol. 27 no.1 (print edition only)
- Interview (2020) | Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
- Flour City Yawp June 8, 2017 | Radio Show & Podcast
- Where It’s At with Bob Early | Audio Podcast
- Mini Interview About Collaborating | Wildness Issue 5
- The Campbell Conversations | 24-minute radio interview on WRVO (stream or download as a podcast)
- Full-Length Interview by Kangsen Feka Wakai | Folio Issue 31
- CNY Books & Authors | Syracuse Post-Standard / Syracuse.com
- Hey, Why’d You Do That? | Great Writers Steal
- Five Pressing Questions | Paper Darts
- Adventures with Poet Christopher Citro | 5-9: Working Writers
- Questions of Collaboration | Broadsided
- Ask the Author | Pank Magazine
- Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in Poetry
- Article in The Lawrence Journal-World
- Article in Arts in Action
Audio/Video
- “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” in The Cincinnati Review (with audio)
- Flour City Yawp June 8, 2017 | Radio Show & Podcast
- Where It’s At with Bob Early | Audio Podcast
- “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot” (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale) in Ghost Ocean 19 – with audio
- “I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” (collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale) in Barnstorm
- “The Mutual Building” in Rattle issue 52 (with audio)
- “Setting Things Around Me Free” (collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in Red Paint Hill
- “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” at Rattle.com
- “9 Lives and 8 Legs” and “In My Dreams I’m in a Small Capsule Spinning Free” in Powder Keg Issue 7 (collaborations written with Dustin Nightingale)
- Poetry reading at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse (10/23/2015), released as part of the Talk About Poetry podcast (Listen via Soundcloud or iTunes)
- “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” in The Bakery (2012)
- “A Sea Voyage and the Attendant Perspective,” “For We, the Wide Awake,” “Plenty of Room Here Under the Big Top,” and “Homeschooling Is Really Taking Off” in Superstition Review (separate audio & video podcasts, available through iTunes) (2012)
- “They Must Bake an Awful Lot of Cakes,” “Lifestyle of the Non-Quarterback and the Non-Cheerleader,” “Those Daring Old Men,” “One Woman Show” & “Have It Your Way” in PANK Magazine (2011)
- “Keep It Up and You’ll Freeze Like That,” “Get Your Climbing Boots On, Betty,” & “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old” in > kill author (2011)
- “A Few Perks of the Writing Life” in Blast Furnace (2011)
- “Help! I’m Floating!” in The Cortland Review, Issue 46 (2010)
- As a guest on The Poets Weave (before taking over as host) Show 1 | Show 2 | Show 3 | Show 4
- “Typical, Really,” “Bedtime Story for Vicious Parents,” & “The Happy Valley B&B Will Prevail” in The Lawrence Journal-World
Nonfiction
- (Lyric Essay) “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere as a Little Cough” in Passages North (Online Bonus Content)
- (Lyric Essay) “Go Away and Stay Right Here” in Colorado Review (Spring 2014)
- (Personal Essay) “An Elephant Walks Into a McDonald’s” in Boulevard
- “The State of Flash (& Prose Poetry): Why We Write ‘Em!” at NANO Fiction (September 2012)
- “Taking Pride In One’s Job (Cleveland Airport: December 29, 2002)” in Airplane Reading (2011)
Reviews I’ve Written
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My review of I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These by Anthony Tognazzini (BOA Editions) from Indiana Review Issue 30.1
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My review of Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies by Jim Daniels (Eastern Washington University Press) from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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A portion of the above was excerpted as a blurb on the back of Jim Daniels’ Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
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Editing
- Currently: Poetry Editor for decomP magazinE, a monthly online literary magazine
- Formerly: Associate Poetry Editor for Indiana Review, Associate Editor Lyric Poetry Review, Sphere (Ohio University’s Undergraduate Literary Magazine)
Reviews of My Writing
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My poem “On Mother” is singled out in a review of Barrelhouse 13 published at The Review Review (Summer 2014)
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My poem is singled out in a review of NANO Fiction V5N1 published in New Pages (May 2012)
Anthology
- “It’s Something People in Love Do” in the 2017 Pushcart Anthology (Previously Published in Sycamore Review)
- “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” in The Doll Collection, a poetry anthology from Terrapin Books – first published in Subtropics (2016)
- Five prose poems from my sequence “The Little Book of Monsters” in Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence from The Marie Alexander Poetry Series (2016)
- Two poems in the anthology Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, Ice Cube Press (2014)
- Three poems included in Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios (Ohio University Press, fall 2014)
- Five poems in The Gay Head Lighthouse Anthology
Broadsides
- Available here!
Chapbook
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Orbiting the Sundress: Prospero’s Pocket Poets Volume 2, Issue 6. Unholy Day Press, Kansas City (2004)