Published Poems

2025 Poems Published

• Abraxas Review, “I Dreamt I Was Unblemished,” issue 3, September 2025.
• Abstract Magazine: “The Bonebreaker,” November 27, 2025.
• After Happy Hour Review: “What If I Like It,” issue 28, Winter 2025.
• Alchemy Literary Magazine, “Laurus nobilis,” issue 51, Spring 2025, p. 14. Print.
• Anacapa Review: “Sonnet for the Fall of an Empire,” 2025, vol. 3, no. 1.
• Anodyne Magazine, “Delayed Detonation,” vol. 6, 2025. Print.
• Anomaly Press Rituals: “Rescuing the Drowning,” Summer 2025.
• Arcturus: A Magazine of New Perspectives: 2 Poems: “Animalia,” “To Be Read While Listening to Tanaka’s ‘Korobeiniki’,” July 29, 2025.
• The Argyle Literary Magazine: “Seeing a Bottle of Woodford Reserve at the Grocery,” Theme 3: Vice, June 2025.
• Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY: “The Letter L,” July 2, 2025.
• Bellowing Ark: “An Apology to the Lovers of My Youth,” “The Labor of Birthing & Burying My Sorrow,” “The Poet’s Recitation to Herself on Long Nights,” “Red River Gorge,” “Spirit Comes to Me,” issue 2, June 2025. Print.
• Berkeley Poetry Review, “Sestina for a Lost Father,” 2025, issue 54. Print.
• Betrayed: Violence Against Women anthology: “Math Quiz,” Moonstone Arts Center, 2025. Print.
• Bicoastal Review: “On the Gift of Language,” issue 8, January 2025.
• The Brussels Review: 3 Poems called The Ash Psalms: ““To Dr. Oppenheimer, An Admonition in Terza Rima,” “The Longest Kiss Goodbye,” “Not My Sleeping Child,” May 18, 2025.
• Cantos: A Literary & Arts Journal: 3 Poems: “Coleman Canoe,” “Looking Back: Fire Island,” “A Walk at Dawn,” 2025.
• A Century of Voices anthology, Honeycomb Press: “For the Fathers Who Wear Carhartt for Work and Not Fashion,” 2025, p. 15.
• Chiron Review: 2 Poems: “Some Assembly Required,” “First Boyfriend,” issue 137, Summer 2025, p. 49. Reprint.
• Cider Press Review: “Speeding Through Familiar Curves,” vol. 27 iss. 4, October 2025.
• Clackamas Literary Review: “Gonesong,” Spring 2025. Print.
• The Closed Eye Open: “Broken Stained Glass,” issue VIII, Spring 2025, p. 31.
• Cosmic Daffodil Journal: “Persephone’s Letters Home,” Issue IX Myth & Metaphor, p. 10-12.
• Cutthroat Journal of the Arts: “Gaza Pieta,” issue 29, 2025. Print.
• The Disappointed Housewife: “Chronic Pain,” June 10, 2025.
• Drifting Sands Haibun: A Journal of Haibun and Tanka Prose: “Homecoming,” issue 33, September 2025.
• Eclectica Magazine:  “Casting About for Image of Comfort, I Remember,” vol. 29, no. 4, Oct/Nov 2025.
• Flat Ink Magazine: “Damnation Does Not Impress Us,” issue 3, October 2025.
• FLOOD 2025 anthology, “Acquiring an Abuelita in Laredo: An Abecedarian,” Gothic Funk Press, 2025.
• Floyd County Moonshine: 2 Poems: “Sestina for College Years in Danville, Kentucky,” p. 73; “Sojourn to Pleasant Hill,” p. 29, issue 17.2, Fall 2025. Print.
• Gone Lawn: “Anaphora of Regrets,” issue 61 (September 2025).
• Good River Review: “Lessons From A Baptism,” issue 9. BEST OF THE NET NOMINATED!
• The Gravity of the Thing: 2 Poems: “Flare,” “The Myth Is Wrong,” August 2025.
• Gyroscope Review: “Life, Death, and a Puzzle of Keukenhof Gardens,” Spring 2025, p. 49.
• Hare’s Paw Literary Journal: “Pantoum for an Addict,” issue 22, Spring 2025.
• Harrow House Journal: “They Tell Me,” issue 1, June 2025, p. 21.
• Hawai’i Pacific Review: “The Leafcutter (Megachile rotundata),” November 3. 2025.
• Hobo Camp Review: 2 Poems: “Surviving a Tennessee Tornado,” “There Are Gods Waiting,” no. 48.
• Hood of Bone Review: “Theories of Rain,” issue 4, Fall 2025.
• Jackdaw Review: “Considering a Diagnosis at Martin’s Fort Lake,” “Ocean Aubade,” “Tragedy Should Be More Dramatic,” issue 3, Fall 2025, p. 48-51.
• The Louisville Review: “Sketching the Hopscotch Grid,” 96, Spring 2025. Print.
• The MacGuffin: 2 Poems: “Ophelia Haunts Hamlet Via Pantoum,” “Some Days the Crow,” vol. XL, no. 3, August 2025, p. 28-29. Print.
• MacQueen’s Quinterly: “Nosophobia,” issue 30, September 2025.
• Main Street Rag : 2 Poems: “I Know Why She Writes,” “”Gift Shop, Museum of Natural History,” vol. 30 issue 3, Summer 2025. Print, p. 30-31.
• Masque & Spectacle: “The Magic of You Lingers,” (September 1, 2025).
• Merion West: “Wonder Me,” December 3, 2025.
• MockingHeart Review: “Morning Commute,” vol. 10, iss. 2, June 2025. PUSHCART-NOMINATED!
• Muleskinner Journal: “Planting Cabbages and Other Sensible Human Things,” Handle & Spout Issue 14, July 2025 (individual poem published May 20, 2025.)
• New English Review: 2 Poems: “A Front Porch in Pikeville, Circa 1998,” “Tell the Bees” April 2025.
• New Plains Review: “Secrets Our Bodies Keep,” Spring 2025, p. 139. Print.
• ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry: “For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile,” August 15, 2025.
• The Orange Rose: “What You Don’t Learn as a New York Catholic,” issue 2, August 22, 2025. PUSHCART-NOMINATED!
• Phylum Press: 3 poems: “Law of Nature,” “Long of Tooth,” “Strange Flowers,” issue 3, Fall 2025, Print.
• Pink Apple Press: “Scheduling the Hysterectomy, Age 26,” Summer 2025. Print.
• Plumwood Mountain Journal: “The Trick is to Ignore Your Hands,” vol. 12, no. 1, November 2025.
• Querencia Press Spring 2025 Anthology: “Mating Season.” Print.
• Rat’s Ass Review: 2 poems: “Grandmother to the New Bride,” “Two Apples Too Heavy,” Spring/Summer 2025.
• Salvation South: 2 Poems: “New Kentucky Resident, 1997-2001,” “On Letting Go of the Dying,” July 19, 2025.
• San Pedro River Review: “My Mother Asks Why I Never Relax,” vo. 17, no. 2, Fall 2025, p. 28-29. Print.
• Santa Clara Review: “Courage,” vol. 112, iss. 02, Spring 2025. Print.
• Screen Door Review: 2 Poems: “Aubade with Hound” and “When I Say I Love You This Much, I Mean,” issue 21, November 2025.
• Sheila-Na-Gig online:
  • “Spivey’s,” vol. 10.2, November 2025.
  • “The Friendship of Older Women,” vol. 10.1, Fall 2025.
• Skipjack Review: “An Arching Shrub Outshines the Roses,” issue #5, p. 10, July 2025.
• Sky Island Journal: “The Discipline of Drowning,” issue 32, summer 2025.
• SoFloPoJo: 3 poems: “Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita,” “A Brief Biology Lesson,” “On the Banks of the Cumberland,” Issue 37, May 2025.
• Soul Poetry, Prose, & Art Magazine:
  • 2 poems: “Ghazal for a Short Marriage” and “Sestina for Undoing a Marriage,” vol. 1, iss. 3, Summer 2025, p. 94-96.
  • 3 Poems: “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far,” “Smith’s Point, Long Island, NY,” “The Poet on Writer’s Block and the Muse,” January 2025, vol. 1, issue 1, p. 64-66.
• Soundings East: “A Guest in the Assembly of God Congregation,” vol. 47, Spring 2025, p.36. Print.
• Stone Poetry Quarterly: “Heavenly Bodies,” May 2025.
• Strange Horizons Magazine: “Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b”
• Thimble Literary Magazine: “Self-Portrait as Bearded Vulture Chick,” 8.2, Fall 2025.
• the tiny journal: 2 poems: “Decisions, Decisions,” “A Subdivision They Named Marehaven,” issue ix, September 2025.
• tiny wren lit: “What We Call Each Other,” issue 9, 2025.
• Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry: “The Tattooed Patient Fears Needles,” issue 27.10, June 2025.
• Triggerfish Critical Review: 3 Poems: “The Way Youth Yields to Old Age,” “Dormant Bulb to Persephone,” “Under His Breath He Says,” issue 34, Spring 2025.
• Tuskegee Review: 2 Poems: “Memory Quilt,” “When the Scent in the Air Changes,” issue 3, Spring 2025.
• Third Wednesday: A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts: “Tours of Grief,” March 2025. (Also in vol. XVIII no. 3, Summer 2025, p. 14, print edition.)
• Verse Daily: (Reprint) “When You Came Home From the War” April 18, 2025.
• Viridine Literary: “Memoirs of a Goddess,” issue 3, summer 2025, p.31.
• Wickedness & Wonder Anthology: “Gretel to Her Therapist at Forty,” Wild Ink Press, 2025.
• The Windhover: “Primum Non Nocere (First, Do No Harm),” 29.2, August 2025, p. 49-50. Print.
• Yearling Poetry Journal: “A Family Fairy Tale,” vol. 4, December 2025, p. 30-34. Print.

2024 Poems Published

• Boudin (McNeese Review Online): 3 poems: “Flash in the Pan,” “Fry the Chicken,” “First Holiday Post-Divorce,” November 27, 2024.
• Orca: A Literary Journal: (Reprints) “When You Came Home From the War” and “Wife at the Parole Hearing,” December 2024, vol. 18, p. 39-41. Print.
• San Antonio Review: 3 Poems: “The Good Ending,” “Pit Stops for Weary Hearts,” “A Renewal By Moonlight,” Winter 2024, vol. 7, issue 2.
• Tipton Poetry Journal: “The Poet Dreams of Inspiration,” issue 62, Fall 2024, p. 10. Print

Older (Pre-2024) Poems Published (recovery of list in progress)

• 66: The Journal of Sonnet Studies: 2 Poems: “Josephine,” “Persephone,” Spring 2009.
• Adirondack Review: “I Want a Man,” Spring 2009.
• Against Agamemnon: War Poetry 2009: “Tysketoser,” Print.
• Appalachian Heritage:
  • “Dinner for One,” Spring 2008.
  • “Womanthings”
• Bellowing Ark:
  • Featured Poet Section, 4 poems: “Avalon Priestess to a Knight on the Shore,” “Antigone,” “Borges After Going Blind,” “The Light Becomes Us” (Pushcart-nominated), Spring 2009.
  • 2 poems: “Ice Storm,” “July Night in Hoptown,” vol. 24.6, Nov/Dec 2008.
  • 9 poems: “The Book,””Drawing Board,” “God in My Throat,” “I Will Not Lie Below,” “It Would Not Have Been Well,” “Retrieval,” “Occupying Children,” “Original Sin,” “Temptation,” vol. 24.5, Sept/Oct 2008.
  • “Letter to Jezebel,” “Daddy’s Grave,”
• Blood Orange Review: “Reclaiming Poverty,” vol. 3.3, September 2008.
• Calliope Nerve: “Baglady Jesus,” “Madwoman City,” April 2010.
• Chaffey Review: “Sacrifices,” “In Praise of Kevlar,” Spring 2010.
• Concho River Review: “Drawing Board,” Spring 2009.
• Creekwalker: “Seachild,” “Summers in BayShore,” “Winterkiss,” “Winter at Robert Moses,” “Mountaintop Removal,” 2007.
• descant: “If I Had Been Born Your Son,” vol. 47, 2008.
• Free Verse: “Visiting Cary,” issue 96, 2008.
• Gentle Strength Quarterly: “After the Divorce”
• Hawk & Whippoorwill: “Violet Petals,” vol. 3, Fall 2010.
• Heartland Review: “Wildclay Woman,” Winter 2009.
• Innisfree, “The Courtesan,” vol. 6, March 2008.
• kaleidowhirl: “Disobedience,” Winter 2008.
• Knocking At The Door anthology (Buddhapuss Ink Press, 2020): “Conversations with a Horse on the Kentucky Scenic Byway”
• kudzu: “For My Unborn Daughters,” April 2009.
• Lamplighter Review: “Gold Frame,” “In Praise of Kevlar,” “When You Came Home From the War” (Pushcart-nominated), Spring 2010.
• The Louisville Review: “Things I Learned When You Left,” vol. 65, Spring 2009.
• Main Street Rag: “For My Unborn Son,” Spring 2009.
• Mezzo Cammin: “Hole in the Wall,” “Bud Vase,” “Two Apples Too Heavy,” vol. 13, issue 2.
• Minnetonka Review: “These Terrible Sacraments,” “The Postscript She Doesn’t Write,” issue 7, Winter 2011.
• New Verse News: “Confession,” July 2010.
• Ontologica: “Midwife to Bathsheba,” “Helen,” “Mary to Her Son X”
• Orange Coast Review: “Star Inside the Apple,” Spring 2010.
• Paradigm: “Unwanted,” vol. 2, Fall 2008.
• Penguin Review: “Bud Vase,” “Challenger,” “Copper in Fire,” Spring 2010.
• Poetry Midwest: “Passionfruit,” issue 20, Fall 2007.
• Public Republic: 4 poems: “Patrick Speaks of Wealth,” “This Poem Takes Liberties,” “Language Lessons,” “Doubting Thomas,” “True Stories”
• Quiddity: “Flagrant,” “Wavewalk,” 1.1, Spring/Summer 2008.
• Red Wheelbarrow: 2 poems: “Blue Nursery,” “Limoges,” Spring 2010.
• River Styx: “The Laugh,” Spring 2010.
• Roanoke Review: “Bud Vase”
• Ruminate: “Refrigerator Borealis,” issue 7, Spring 2008.
• Santa Clara Review: “Second Sight,” vol. 97, issue 2, Spring 2010. Print.
• Sow’s Ear Poetry Review:
  • “The Laugh,” Winter 2009.
  • “Wife at the Parole Hearing,” Spring 2008.
• Survivor’s Review: “A Child Meets Melanoma,” vol. 5, December 2007.
• Third Wednesday: A Quarterly Journal of Literary & Visual Arts: “Fishing,” Spring 2010
• Tipton Poetry Journal: “Challenger,” Spring 2010.
• Wisdom of our Mothers: Stories and Poems by Daughters and Sons: “Crochet,” Familia Books, 2010. Print.
• Wisconsin Review: “Alzheimer’s,” 42.2, Spring 2008.