2025
- Spinoff, New Ohio Review (print)
- Three Poems, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology
- Memory Sonnet, Identity Theory
- Four Poems, Jack Straw Writers Anthology (print)
2024
- Poem in Which I Tell, Don’t Show, Laurel Review (print)
- Three Poems, Tupelo Quarterly
- Four Poems, Abstract Magazine
- Confessional Poem (and interview), Bulb Culture Collective
- there’s a coldness in me, The Inflectionist Review
- puzzle, The Inflectionist Review
- Dick’s Drive-In Parking Lot, 1:00 AM, The Southern Review (print)
- Two Poems, & Change (print)
- Spoons, Birmingham Poetry Review (print)
- Two Poems, Quarter After Eight (print)
- Walk of Shame, The Florida Review (print)
- Two Poems, Poetry Northwest (print)
- The Sun, Invisible City
- How the Conversation Might Have Gone Instead, Passager (print)
2023
- Cake, HAD
- Hi. My Name is Billy Hollands, Plume
- Church Steps, Raleigh Review (print)
- Last Hurrah, Beaver Magazine
- Youngest Child, North American Review (print)
- Dogs, The Shore
- Dragging for Fish, Gigantic Sequins (print – nominated for Pushcart Prize)
- what has been, The Inflectionist Review
- Portrait of My Father with the Letter V, The Slowdown
- Mostly False Statements from My Imaginary Biography, Red Flag Poetry
- Notes on My Mother’s Desk (and interview), Rappahannock Review
- Al’s Books and News, Miami, The Greensboro Review (print)
- The Love Boat, Pontoon Poetry
- Portrait of My Father with the Letter V, The Adroit Journal
2022
- I Revisit My Favorite Children’s Book, and by Favorite I Mean Most Terrifying, Boulevard (print – finalist for Sycamore Review‘s Wabash Prize in Poetry)
- Queen for a Day, American Literary Review
- Former English Major Rediscovers His College Essays, Moist Poetry Journal
- Float, Watershed Review
- The Love Boat, Sepia (nominated for Best of the Net Anthology)
- Near Miss, New Ohio Review (finalist for NORward Prize)
- Tree, Hunger Mountain Review (scroll down)
- Old Cutler Road, Columba
- Cleo in Florida, The Indianapolis Review
- The Age of Innocence, CIRQUE (print)
- ICYMI: One-Sentence Summaries of My Recent Poems, The Lumiere Review (contest finalist)
- I Search My Father’s Playbill Collection but Don’t Find What I’m Looking For, Whatever That Is, Whale Road Review
- Old Flame, Smartish Pace (print – finalist for Erskine J. Poetry Prize)
- Another Ginger Grant, Pine Hills Review
- No Soap Radio, Figure 1
- Self-Portrait: Today’s Menu, Reservoir Road Literary Review
- Sex in Portugal, No Contact
- The Painting and A Rare Sighting, Pontoon Poetry
- Sunburn, Narrative Northeast (scroll down)
2021
- Three Poems, DIAGRAM
- Courtship and Proposal, The Gay & Lesbian Review (print)
- In Which I Search Zillow® for My Childhood Home and Discover It’s for Sale, The Account (nominated for Best of the Net Anthology)
- A Rare Sighting, One (semi-finalist for Atlanta Review‘s International Poetry Competition)
- Lesson, Return, and Stiltsville, Biscayne Bay, wildness
- Two Poems, Hole in the Head Review
- Five Poems, Litbreak Magazine
- My Father, on Stage, Briefly Alone, Autofocus
- Telling Detail, Jelly Bucket (print)
- Confessional Poem, The American Journal of Poetry
- A Story, North American Review (print – finalist for James Hearst Poetry Prize)
- Escape, The Ekphrastic Review
2020
- Spin the Globe, Hawai`i Pacific Review
- Parrot Jungle Polaroid, Miami, May 1981, 3Elements Review (p. 44)
- 12 and Under, The Summerset Review
- Presidential Fitness Test, Rattle (Ekphrastic Challenge Editor’s Choice)
- The Birdfeeder, PageBoy Magazine (print)
- Thief, Tipton Poetry Journal (p. 7)
- Duolingo, Crosswinds Poetry Journal (print)
Forthcoming
- I never cared for reality, and I never write about it, Poet Lore
- Sex Is So Stupid, Pleiades
- Revision, The Worcester Review
- All Is Water and 12 and Under Revisited, Western Humanities Review
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