Forthcoming
“Late Spring Epiphany After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit” will appear in Best New Poets 2025.
“Cento for Mourning,” “Cento for Fantastic Dilemmas,” and “January, Just South of Chico” will appear in Sugar House Review.
“Our allegiance to the road trip” will appear in Beloit Poetry Journal.
“Long Love–Betsy and Andrew Wyeth” will appear in Narrative magazine.
“Once Opened” winner of third prize, selected by Stephen Kuusisto, in the Red Wheelbarrow Prize will appear this spring. Selected as a semifinalist,“Personal Ad” will also appear in this issue.
“Epithalamion” and “Then Liz mails me a tiny painting from Maine to prop on my desk–” will appear in The Writes of Spring anthology from Tupelo Press in April 2027.
Read Selected Poems Online
“I’m Not Pushing a Wheelchair Anymore or Bathing Any Body Except My Own” –Magma 93: Liberation, the 2025 issue of the British journal Magma Poetry
“Stunned”– Sixth Finch
“Ode to My Vitruvian Man” – Frontier Poetry Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Third Prize
“How to Leave” – Stonecoast Review, Issue 23: Power
“For My Boy in the Garden with Variants of Uncertain Significance” – The Maine Review Environs Prize Second Place Finalist
“Vilomah” –– Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Finalist
“Late Spring Epiphany After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit” and “Showering My Son” – The Adroit Journal as a 2024 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry, nominated for and received a Pushcart Prize, now out in the 2026 Pushcart Prize L, Best of the Small Presses anthology, ed. Bill Henderson
“5.5 Shiley Long” and “Showering My Son” – medmic: Conversations, Culture & Creativity from the Health Care Community (reprinted from Beloit Poetry Journal)
“For Charlie in His Wheelchair by the Evening Window” – SWWIM Every Day
(nominated for the Best Spiritual Literature anthology and the Nina Riggs Poetry Award from Cave Wall Press)
“Still Life with Milkweed” – Rust & Moth
“Weather Report” – Alaska Quarterly Review
“Bound for Glory” – Rattle: Ekphrastic Challenge Editor’s Choice
“Fig Tree” – Psaltery & Lyre
“Wrestling the Angel” – Psaltery & Lyre
“Doing the Math” – West Trestle Review
Listen to Interviews and Recordings of Poems
Past & Present: Reading and Conversation with Mark Doty, Diane Seuss, and Meg Weston at The Poet’s Corner in Maine
Interview with Jane Newkirk, poetry editor of medmic: conversations, culture & creativity from the healthcare community
“My Love Increase My Bewilderment” – West Trade Review
“Ghost Writer” – Tahoma Literary Review, SoundCloud
Read Selected Poems in Print
“Ways to Wear It” will appear in New Ohio Review 36 as the 2025 Poetry Contest Winner selected by Ted Kooser.
“Late Spring Epiphany After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit”– Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses, 2026
“Showering My Son” – Best New Poets 2023 from University of Virginia Press
“5.5 Shiley Long,” “Showering My Son” and “Just This Evening”– Beloit Poetry Journal
“Because I’m Sagittarius” – Poetry Northwest
“Watering the Houseplants During Covid,” “About the Mother of All Time and Children,”
and “This Is April” – december
“Ode to My Father with His Buck Knife” – Southern Poetry Review
“Sorrow Chaser” and “Periodic Syntax” – Nimrod International Journal: Body Language Issue
“Breakdown, It’s Alright” – Catamaran Literary Reader
“After Your Call” – San Pedro River Review
“Ode to the Beet” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and
“The Present Participle Gives Instructions on the Continuous Tense” – Connecticut River Review
“Wolf Moon” – Crab Creek Review, Poetry Prize Finalist
“Credence Clearwater Revival” – San Diego Poetry Annual, Honorable Mention Steve Kowit Prize 2020