Poems

2024

Not All Words Taste Like Prayer, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Leaving Louisiana, The Inflectionist Review

10 poems, Rough-Cut Elegies: An Anthology of Missouri Poets, Spartan Press

Day I Answer Your Good-bye + Empty Sleeves at the Patriot Store + Coil of Catastrophe, Gasconade Review

Sunday Afternoons Always End, Lips Poetry Magazine (Laura Boss Poetry Foundation)

(don’t) take me home + Bob Dylan Warned Them, To Light the Trails: Poems by Women in a Violent World, Sídhe Press

2023

Nine Letters, Nine Months, Never Happened, Rise Up Review3

Child as Noble Metal, Stone Circle Review

2022

The Scenic Route, Many Nice Donkeys [nominated for Best of the Net]

Three Horses, Muzzles Pointing South, THRUSH

Whale Foam, Sea Honey + red-pickup men pass me & my bike on montlake, Moist Poetry Journal

Pondering Three of Marilyn’s Sketches in Red, Figure 1

Surface Tension, Olney Magazine

Salt Grows Nothing + Concatenation + Emily Carr Paints Another Forest Interior, Well Versed 2022, Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers Guild

Order a Coke in Baton Rouge, Work and the Anthropocene anthology, Ice Floe Press

2021

The Half-Life of Sanity, Hyades

Never Stay Where Grief Is Free, Anti-Heroin Chic

To the Old Lady Eating Fries, One/Jacar Press

What Voting Leaves, The American Journal of Poetry

Jitter and Shimmer, Second Chance Lit–The Phoenix Project

Diagnosing the Perfect Avocado, Yemassee

Twining the Darkness + Elegy for Those Who Stay, Columbia Art League Interpretations VI & book

Every Door Has a Wrong Side + Jitter and Shimmer, SMEOP: Urban, Black Sunflowers Poetry Press anthology

2020

Stirring the Ashes, Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize finalist

Dust Storm Delirium + More than a Model + Extra: A Grace Note + When Only One Lover Diagrams a Sentence, San Pedro River Review

Snapshots Missing from Mama’s Brag Book + Ode to the Odonate, Rock & Sling

26 Letters Refuse to Whisper, LIT Magazine–Corona Chronicle

The Last Hunger, Small Orange [nominated for Best of the Net]

2019

Jitter and Shimmer, Isthmus Review

2017

Just Open the Book + Reason, South Florida Poetry Journal