My full-length manuscript was named as a finalist for the Waywiser Press Anthony Hecht Prize and a semi-finalist for the Conduit Minds on Fire Open Book Prize and the Akron Poetry Prize. A chapbook consisting of poems from this manuscript was named as a finalist for the Anhinga Press Rick Campbell Chapbook Award.
My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the following journals:
Barren Magazine: “Apologia, America”
Barrow Street: “Transformer”
Crab Orchard Review: “Nocturne with Canals”
Crazyhorse: “Dinwiddie County Fair,” “Eight,” “Magda the Mule-Faced Girl” (“Eight” also appeared on Verse Daily)
Frontier Poetry: “Souvenir”
Green Mountains Review: “Seven Cases of Inertia,” “Visitation, Lake Cadillac”
Meridian: “In the Year of the Metal Pig”
Mid-American Review: “Autumnal, Kansas”
North American Review: “Eulogy, Scottsbluff,” “The Past,” “September, NorthStar Drive-In Theater”
Palette Poetry: “About the Weather”
Poet Lore: “All Ye Faithful”
Prairie Schooner: “Strawberry Pickers, Nauvoo,” “Triticum Durum”
Quarterly West: “In This Kingdom”
River Styx: “Nocturne Approaching Bluefield, W.Va.”
Sycamore Review: “Thanksgiving, 1986”
Taco Bell Quarterly: “How Can I Help You?”
The Arsonist: “Purgatorio, East Peoria”
The Massachusetts Review: “Twelve Questions and Two Stipulations: Found Poem”
The Yale Review: “Boy, 19, Requests Death by Drowning”
Verse: “Birds of Bonita Springs,” “Self-Landscape, Illinois River”
