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SELECTED POEMS

"Some Problems with Autobiography" - Southern Review 

"Primer" - The New Criterion

"Self-Portrait, 2085" - Hopkins Review 

"Driving North from Florida in March" - 2023 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest Winner

"After Visiting a Former Student in a Psychiatric Unit" - 2023 Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry

"What We Told the Children" - Literary Matters

 

"On Emptying a Deceased Relative's Home" - Image

"Phantasmagoria" - Blackbird

"Playing Dead" - Blackbird

"Woman Waking Early in Late Fall" - Blackbird

"On Not Baptizing My Daughter" - The New Criterion

"Barcode Ode" - Literary Matters 

"The Carpenter's Tale" - Hopkins Review 

"Space Junk" - Literary Matters 

"Parents of Middle-Aged Children" - 32 Poems

 

"Corn Poppets" - Literary Matters 

"Ghazal of the Polar Vortex" - Poetry Daily and The Kenyon Review

"Deciduous Ode" - Blackbird

"False Elegy" - E-Verse Radio

"To a Barred Owl Nailed to a Barn Door" - Times Literary Supplement

"Homeland Security" - E-Verse Radio

"Heritage" - The Missouri Review 

 

"Young Achilles" - 32 Poems

 

"A Stand of Swamp Maples in Purcellville, Virginia" - Shenandoah

 

"Nietzsche in Love" - The Missouri Review

 

"The Picture of Little B. B. in a Prospect of Flowers" - Shenandoah 

 

"After Learning of a Friend's Suidice, We Drive to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park" - Zocalo Public Square 

 

"A Late Spring" and "Waterrock Knob" - Connotation Press

 

"Worcester Gothic" - storySouth

 

Selections from Natural Causes - Poem of the Week


Selections from Other Latitudes - Poem of the Week

 

"For the Cigarette Holes in a Favorite Robe" and "Emptying the Charcoal Grill Together" - Eleven Eleven

 

"Two Disused Farms in Kempton, Indiana" - Waccamaw

 

"Narcissus" - Verse Daily

 

"To a Young Woman in a Hospital Bed" - Zocalo Public Square

 

"The Brunch" - Zocalo Public Square

 

 

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