Selected Poems
Coming Soon!
Coming soon: Abecedarian on Pondering a Tear ~ Finalist, Beullah Rose Prize ~ Smartish Pace
Coming soon: Telepathy ~ Fence
Coming soon: Yearling ~ Prairie Schooner
Coming soon: Bud Union ~ West Trade Review
Want
Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative
Pain is the Beam That Penetrates ~ Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly
You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly
Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly
Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press
Divinity
Red Crop Milk ~ Image, Best New Poets nominee
The Pelican ~ Winner, Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award
A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly
Eros
Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review
Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday
Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review
Cosmos
Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative
Titanium ~ New England Review
Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly
Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly
Don’t Cry for All the Loves You’ve Lost ~ Inscape ~ Editor’s Choice Award
Creatures
Doe’s Plea ~ poets.org
Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly
A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly
Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly
Velvet Variations (an excerpt) ~ Antiphony
Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening
Death
Substitute ~ poets.org
Vessel ~ Winner, Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
Earth
Milkweed ~ Psaltery & Lyre, Best of the Net nominee
I Knew It Was You Who Planted Those Yellow Snapdragons ~ Maiden Magazine
Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine
Song of the Barren Orange Tree Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves ~ Dewdrop
A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review
Bare Branches ~ Big Sky Journal
Pale Blue ~ Qu
Translations
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On the Train ~ a translation of “Abord” by May Ziadeh ~ poets.org
Twilight ~ a translation of “Crepescule” by May Ziadeh ~ Diode
Goodbye, Lebanon ~ a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh ~ Virginia’s Sisters
3 Poems ~ translations of poems by May Ziadeh ~ The Los Angeles Review
Goodbye, Lebanon ~ a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh ~ Asymptote