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Poetry

Poems from a new manuscript in progress:
Parabola, Thomas Merton Prize in Poetry of the Sacred (Honorable Mention), “How to Pray”
Parabola, Thomas Merton Prize in Poetry of the Sacred (Honorable Mention), “Sleepwalkers in the Garden”
On the Seawall, “Prayers from a Dark Room”
New England Review, “Prayer should be a tunnel”
Lavender Review, “Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.”

Poems from Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going:
The Screen Door Review, “A Question to Ask When the Honeymoon is Over” (with an interview and review)
The Normal School, “In the Grove of Self-Charging Trees” (with an interview)
The Shallow Ends, “In the First Fall of Our Marriage”
About Place Journal, “Because You Waited for Me to Fly Your First Kite”
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, “Stridulation Sonnet” (and translated into Italian)
Bellingham Review, “Nevertheless,” “The First Rule of Rock Tumbling is Rocks Must Be of Similar Hardness,” “In Wyoming”
The Collagist, “And That’s How I Almost Died of Foolishness in Beautiful Florida,” “Out of the Windfields”
Rattle,  “Primer”  (an Italian translation, with commentary)
The Adroit Journal, “Sex, Suddenly, Everywhere”
THRUSH, “13th Birthday and Something Said to Wake Early”
Brain Mill Press, “There Ain’t Nothing Like Breck for Stop n’ Stare Hair”
One, “Between the Shoreline and the Sea”
The Compass (UK), “Laying Down the Veils,” “Elopement Epithalamium,” “When My Wife Asks About My Tramp Years”

Poems from Pelvis with Distance:
Truck, “In the Canyon (Fear/Breaking).” (first published in Cave Wall)
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, “Red Barn in Wheatfield,” “Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot,” and “No. 8—Special (Palo Duro Canyon with Spiral)”
Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, “Coney Island, 1917”
Broadsided Press, “Lake George, 1922,” July 2015
The Missouri Review, “The White Place in Shadow,” a Poem of the Week
Cave Wall, “The Grey Hills”
Iron Horse Literary Review, “July 13, 1946,” (featured on Verse Daily)
So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, “A Black-Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills” (Selected by Beth Ann Fennelly as Honorable Mention for the Spring 2014 Poetry Prize) and “From the Faraway, Nearby”
Cutbank, “Music—Pink and Blue II,” “Alfred Stieglitz (Self-Portrait in Absentia),” “Composite [Self-] Portrait as Wise Desert Elder,” and “Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz (Composite Portrait)”
Verse Daily, “In the Patio IV: Black Door” (first published in Cave Wall)
Commonplace, journal of the American Antiquarian Society, “To Find You” Series I-V

Occasional Poems:
ESPNW, “If It All Comes Down to This”
Nat. Brut, “Postcards to North Carolina from a Northernmost Island”
One, “Grandfather Sonata”
Milk Journal, “The Great Legerdemain”
Two Peach, “Taking a Turn at the Wreck-a-Wreck”
Beloit Poetry Journal, “Manhattan Bridge Bikeway: Up” 
Cell Poems, “Persephone in Summer” 

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