POEMS & ESSAYS
“News of the Day” | “Ode to Kody,” Poetry Northwest, September 2023.
“Field Note: Birds of Prey on the Highway” (essay) Poetry Northwest, September 2023.
“Reading Cancer” (essay) Cagibi, January 2023.
“Mapping Medusa, a list” Tinderbox, December 2022.
“I Continue My Love Affair” Tinderbox, December 2022, finalist 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize.
“Basement Memories” (essay) Red Hen Press Medium, October 2022.
“Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain” On Being, Poetry Unbound podcast, read by Pádraig Ó Tuama, May 2022.
“Oddfellows 215” the Missouri Review, December 2021.
“Before an MRI: A Questionnaire” SWWIM, January 2021, winner SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest.
“Stage Two” | “Follow Up” | “All Love Stories are Death Stories” Lunch Ticket, Amuse-Bouche, Fall 2020.
“Writing Poetry After Turning 46” Orange Blossom Review, Issue 4, Summer 2020.
“Flight” Arts & Letters: a Journal of Contemporary Culture, Issue 40, Spring 2020.
“On the phone with my mother after she watches the news” | “The Myths We Live” VIDA Review, Issue 1, March 2, 2020.
“Myths We Tell” Cutthroat Literary Review, March 2020, winner Joy Harjo poetry prize.
“Dear Poem” The Iron Horse Review, January 2020.
“Ode to My Hair” River Styx, Summer, 2019.
“1978” The Missouri Review, December 2019.
“The Spell” Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (theory reader), edited by Barbara Shaw and Ayu Saraswat, Oxford University Press, Winter 2020.
“El Rio Bravo del Norte” | “Adjustment Disorder, Part II or Weekly Therapy After Cancer” Twyckenham Notes, Winter 2019, Joe Bolton Poetry Prize Finalist.
“Gravity, or after the Plane Crashes” Coalhill Review, Fall 2019.
“To the Boys Who Bully My Nephew in the 6th Grade” SWWIM, October 2019
“Prose Sonnet 6: Gravity Haunted” Tahoma Literary Review, July 2019, Pushcart Nomination.
“What You Are Doing is Living” | “In the Poison Time There is Love” The Rumpus, July 2019.
“Rooted”Barzakh, a Literary Magazine, Spring 2019.
“Flying, a List” Slippery Elm, May 2019, Editors Poetry Prize Finalist.
“Villa Grimaldi” Bone Bouquet, Spring 2019.
“La Doncella” Queen Mob’s Teahouse, March 2019.
“Bone Breakers” Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Fall 2018.
“My English Decades” The Florida Review, Winter 2019.
“Birds of Prey” | “During the Time of the Patriarch” Pilgrimage, June 2018.
“How I know this is love” Uppagus, June 2018.
“After the Election: a father speaks to his son” Split This Rock, March 2018, 3rd prize in Sonia Sanchez/Langston Hughes Poetry Contest.
“Rebellion” Anomaly, January 2018.
“Someday I will Visit Hawk Mountain” | “To Document” | “I was a Bell” Origins Journal, January 2018.
“Pacific Dreams” | “The Order of Things” Memoryhouse, Winter 2018.
“Stories for Strangers” Voices from the Attic Volume 23, Winter 2017.
“Immigration Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1985” Crab Orchard Review, Summer 2017.
“This Body” Iron Horse Literary Review, Spring 2017.
“Before Intersectionality” Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Oxford University Press, Spring 2017.
“You Have to Leave Me Twice” | “Poems: A Morning Routine” | “The Generals of South America” Memorious, Summer 2016.
“Alien Magic” The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 26, 2015.
“Marriage” The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, November 2015.
“Confessions” The Mississippi Review, Finalist, Prize Issue, June 2014.
“Losing Spanish” Missouri Review “Poem of the Week,” March 2014.