Books

FULL-LENGTH BOOKS

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If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun

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Winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award

Elixir Press, 2021

 

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Reviewed at New Pages, Tupelo Quarterly, & the Asheville Poetry Review

Interviews with me about the book in Rain Taxi and at the University of Arizona Poetry Center

 

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The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy

 

Steel Toe Books, 2015

 

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CHAPBOOKS

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The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering

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Collaborative poetry written with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson

 

 

University of Toledo’s Aureole Press, 2025

 

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I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest

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micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry written with Dustin Nightingale

 

 

Ghost City Press, 2025

 

 

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ANTHOLOGIES

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Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

Contains my poem “You’re So Gross and I Love You”

Ballantine Books, 2024

 

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Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic and Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020

Contains the broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” illustrated by Amy Meissner

Provincetown Arts Press, 2022

 

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The Open Page: Poetry, Fiction, & Essays on the Art of Writing

Contains my craft essays: “Welcoming Surprises” and “Leaping Before You Look: The Lyric Essay”

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, 2021

 

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New Poetry from the Midwest 2019 

Contains my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun”

New American Press, 2021

 

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Best Microfiction 2020

Contains my microfiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go”

Pelekinesis, 2020

 

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Show Us Your Papers

Contains my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick”

Main Street Press, 2020

 

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A Constellation of Kisses

Contains my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do”

Terrapin Books, 2019

 

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They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing

Contains my poems “Staring Out a Window Echoing the Actual Moon,” “And Me With Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket,” and “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” written collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale

Black Lawrence Press, 2018

 

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Pushcart Prize Anthology 2018

Contains my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do”

Pushcart Press, 2017

 

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Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence

Contains five prose poems from my sequence The Little Book of Monsters: “Happy Birthday to Me,” “Martin Swerves,” “Happiness, in a Way,” “Something Awful, Autumn Nights,” and “Be My Guest”

White Pine Press (Marie Alexander Poetry Series #20), 2016

 

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The Doll Collection

Contains my poem “The Secret Lives of Little Girls”

Terrapin Books, 2016

 

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Best New Poets 2014: : 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

Contains my poem “Gathering a Few Facts”

Samovar Press/Meridian, 2015

 

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Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio

Contains my poems “Wine Tasting, Nine A.M.,” “In This Reality, You Exit at the Next McDonald’s for Fries and a Shake,” and “You Just Sit There Dreaming”

Ohio University Press, 2015

 

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Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

Contains my poems “One Kitchen One Afternoon” and “Whatchamacallit”

Ice Cube Press, 2014

 

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