The unpublished manuscript We Hold These Truths was a runner-up in the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize. The judge, Kathleen Hellen, offered very kind commentary here.
Poems
“Air Show” in West Texas Literary Review
“An American Villanelle [Adult Mix]” on L2T
“At Sunset” in STAND Magazine
“Bouncy House” and “Electrostatic & Magic” in New Plains Review
“Communion” in Ponder Review
“Descent” on Exposition Review: “Descent” was also nominated for Best of the Net for 2019.
“Disguises,” forthcoming in The Wayne Literary Review
“The Farm in Spring” and “Sam Cooke Said a Change is Gonna Come,” in Dunes Review
“Fever Dreaming” was a finalist in Alexandria Quarterly’s 2018 End-of-Summer Poem Contest
“Field Trees” on The Hopper
“Homecoming” in English Journal (Requires subscription to view.)
“Lake Huron, June 2017” on 8 Poems
“Pulse” in The Blue Mountain Review (Page 43 of issue 15)
“So You’d Better Pay Attention” on Hobart
“Thank God for Ozzie Smith” and “To Judge the Living and the Dead” in LAJM (Click link, then click download.)
“Thank God for Ozzie Smith” is also in Cobalt Review’s 2018 baseball issue as a semifinalist for their baseball contest.
“There is No News Cycle on the Trail” on Rockvale Review
“The Trees,” forthcoming in Sunspot Literary Journal
“Why I Peed Outside with the Dog” in the Outrider Press anthology The Stars
There’s probably lots of other stuff on dead blogs and such.
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