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Published Poems
Year | Title | Journal | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
2025 | Illuminator | Porcupine Literary | |
2025 | Grading on a Curve | Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art | |
2025 | Last Lecture | Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art | |
2025 | Plan B | Azure | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
2025 | Academic Calendar | The Soliloquist Journal | |
2025 | Is there a Final Exam? | Azure | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
2025 | Palinode | Neologism Poetry Journal | |
2025 | Dream Song | Teach. Write. | |
2025 | Trojan Horse | The Common | |
2025 | Ethos, Logos, Pathos | Azure | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
2025 | Full Disclosure | The Missouri Review | Poem of the Week |
2024 | For a Dying Child | International Human Rights Art Movement | Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize - 2nd Place |
2024 | Pop Quiz | Sky Island Journal | |
2024 | Invocation Before a Day of Teaching | Crab Orchard Review | |
2023 | Rate My Professor:
A Rebuttal | Sky Island Journal | |
2023 | Balcony House | Tampa Review | |
2023 | Morning in Three Movements | The Banyan Review | |
2023 | A Drink of Water | The Banyan Review | |
2023 | Synonym for Marriage | The Banyan Review | |
2022 | The Wisdom of the Cave | SWWIM | |
2022 | Inventory | Southern Poetry Review | |
2022 | The Shadow Maker | Sequestrum | |
2022 | War in Eurasia | Sequestrum | |
2022 | Calendar Plans | Relief | |
2021 | Ctrl+Z | Florida Review | |
2021 | On Forgetting Ash Wednesday | Iris Literary Journal | |
2021 | Before the Common Era | Quadrant | |
2021 | Aftercare | Raintown Review | |
2021 | Invocation | Cider Press Review | |
2021 | The End of Knowing | The Criterion | |
2021 | Another Inevitable Romance at Olduvai Gorge | Avatar Review | |
2021 | Ode for My Department Chair Who Left a Face Shield on My Desk | NCTE English Journal | |
2020 | Bingo Night for Missing and Exploited Children | Beacon Press | Blue Room Collective - "Grabbed Anthology" |
2020 | Prometheus's Regret | Halcyone, Black Mountain Press | |
2020 | Smiling at the Executioner | Sky Island Journal | Pushcart Prize Nominee 2020; Best of the Net Nominee 2021 |
2020 | Ode for an Absent Student | Naugatuck River Review | Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi Finalist |
2020 | Afterlives | Pensive: A Global Journal... | Featured in Verse Daily - 2024 |
2020 | Cues | National Poetry Review | |
2020 | Ode to the Heart | Of Poets & Poetry, FSPA | |
2019 | We leave the beaches for the tourists, mostly | Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art | |
2019 | Ode for Amy | Smithsonian Arts&Sciences | |
2019 | Ode for an Ode on a Grecian Urn | Folio | 2019 Folio Editor's Prize - Winner |
2019 | Where Winter Spends the Summer | SWWIM | |
2018 | Anthem | Harpur Palate | |
2018 | On Folding a Fitted Sheet | Harpur Palate | |
2018 | Learning the Scriptures | Naugatuck River Review | |
2018 | Trigger Warning | Harpur Palate | |
2017 | Bad Apology | SWWIM | Narrative Poetry Contest Semi Finalist; also featured in March 2020 #Tbt |
2016 | Ocracoke | Briar Cliff Review | |
2016 | Urban Helicon | Cold Mountain Review | |
2016 | Parousia | Tar River Poetry | |
2016 | Sugaring | Naugatuck River Review | Robert Frost Award - Finalist |
2015 | The Breakfast Piece | Drunken Boat | |
2015 | Emperical God | Ruminate Magazine | |
2014 | The Bath | Naugatuck River Review | Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi Finalist |
2014 | Portable Labyrinth | Aurorean | |
2013 | Amber Alert | new south: Georgia St. Univ. Journal | New South Writing Contest - Winner |
2012 | The Arrangement | Beauty/Truth: Ekphrastic Poetry | Robert Frost Award - First Runner Up |
2012 | At the Grieving Parents Meeting | River Styx | Rita Dove Poetry Award - Semi Finalist |
2012 | 1-800-THE-LOST | American Poetry Journal | 2011 American Poet Prize - Winner |
2012 | Catharsis | Smartish Pace | Erskine J. Poetry Prize - Finalist |
2008 | Arcadia | Cider Press Review | |
2008 | House on Fire | New Formalist | |
2008 | Museum | Comstock Review | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
2008 | The Rescue | Comstock Review | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
2008 | Melville's Reader | Spoon River Poetry Review | |
2008 | The Retrieval | Comstock Review | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
2008 | Oaths, Curses, Blessings | Georgetown Review | |
2008 | Snow Globe | Cider Press Review | |
2008 | The Lame God | Spoon River Poetry Review | |
2007 | The Rape of Chryssipus | Spoon River Poetry Review | Spoon River Editors' Prize - Winner |
2006 | Odalisque | Comstock Review | Muriel Craft Bailey Award - Finalist |
2006 | Girl at Piano | Beauty/Truth: Ekphrastic Poetry | |
2006 | Aubade | DMQ Review | |
2006 | Washday | Ekphrasis | |
2006 | Sanriku | Willow Springs | Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award - Winner |
2005 | A Kenning | American Poetry Journal | |
2005 | On Recognizing Saints | National Poetry Review | Annie Finch Prize - Winner |
2005 | Leaving the Mainland | American Poetry Journal | |
2005 | A Glass of Absinthe | Anthology of New England Writers | |
2004 | Against Elegies | National Poetry Review | Featured in Verse Daily |
2003 | Days Inn | Shenandoah | |
2003 | Teaching the Tragedies | Southern Poetry Review | |
1985 | The Peculiar Truth | Grain | |
1978 | Beginner's Mind | Williams College Archives | From the book "Advantages of Believing" |
1975 | On Rewinding | Emerson College Review | Emerson Original Poetry Award - Winner |
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