Selected Published Poems + Interviews
Coming soon: Telepathy ~ Fence
Coming soon: Bud Union ~ West Trade Review
Titanium ~ New England Review
Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative
Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative
Doe’s Plea ~ poets.org
Substitute ~ poets.org
Pain is the Beam That Penetrates ~ Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly
Red Crop Milk ~ Image
Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review
Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly
You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly
Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly
A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly
Don’t Cry for All the Loves You’ve Lost ~ Inscape ~ Editor’s Choice Award
Velvet Variations (an excerpt) ~ Antiphony
Milkweed ~ Psaltery & Lyre
I Knew It Was You Who Planted Those Yellow Snapdragons ~ Maiden Magazine
The Pelican ~ Orison Books’ 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award
Vessel ~ 2023 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award ~ Interview with Poets & Writers
Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday
Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine
Song of the Barren Orange Tree Who Is Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves ~ Dewdrop
Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly
A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly
A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review ~ Interview
Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press ~ Interview
Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly
Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly
Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review
Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening
Bare Branches ~ Big Sky Journal
Pale Blue ~ Qu
Translations (click here to learn more)
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
Lambent as lunar matter,
damp and tangled under dirt,
humming huskily beneath
a stand of aspen trees,
the one true aspen breathes,
births clone after clone…