Recent Poems

“Remembering Winter Ridge,” in The Orchards Poetry Journal, Summer 2024, available in print through Kelsay Books, and as a free downloadable pdf through The Orchards website.

“Prayer,” in Tikkun, December 12, 2023

“At the Aquarium: Gumboot Chiton,” in The More-Than-Human-World, a special issue of About Place Journal, Volume VII, Issue IV, October 2023

 “Magic,” in The Poeming Pigeon, A Journal of Poetry & Art, Issue 13, a publication of The Poetry Box, Portland Oregon, October 2023.

“Currency,” in Peacefire, a special issue of MAINTENANT, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art (17), Peter Carlaftes and Kat George, eds. Three Rooms Press, New York City, Summer 2023

“When You’re Caught in the Net of Ineptitude,” first publication in the anthology A Shape Produced by a Curve, Jane Omerod, Thomas Fucaloro, David Lawton, George Wallace, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Lyndsey Ellis, eds. Published by great weather for MEDIA, New York City, July 2023

“What We See and Don’t See,” “Ars Poetica,” “And for all this,” in Center of Gravity, a special issue of About Place Journal, December 2022

“What They Saw on Their Weekly River Walk, Taking Turns Pushing His Chair,” in THROUGH THE ASH, NEW LEAVES, a special issue of CUTTHROAT 27, Summer 2022

“Dreaming of the Great American Poem (part 12),” a chain poem in 14 parts, American Poetry Review, July/August 2021

“To Dwell in 2021,” in Humanity: The Reboot, a special issue of MAINTENANT, A Journal of  Contemporary Dada Writing & Art (15), Peter Carlaftes and Kat George, eds. Three Rooms Press, New York City, Summer 2021

“Pot of Gold,”  Poetry Magazine, October 2020

“Ode to the Long-Tailed Grackle,”  Terrain.org, September 2020

“Windows,” Cold Mountain Review, 2019

“Watering,” “Awakened Too Early, I Consider the Nature of Beauty,” “Poem Ending with an Adaptation of a Line by William Stafford,”  Ascent, November 2019

“Words To Use With Caution,” Claw & Blossom, September 2019

“Heart and Soul,”  Valparaiso Poetry Review 2019

“If on the Menu, Grouper,” About Place Journal, Vol. V, Issue III

“Happiness,” The Fem, 2016

“The Visit,” “Mystery Fish, Yal-Ku Lagoon,” String Poet, September 2016

“Memory/Memorial,” 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, 2014

“Morning Meditation,” “A Valentine for Akumal,” “In Lieu of a Christmas Letter,” Cascadia Review, May 2014

“On the Nature of Touch,” “Mukilteo Ferry,” “Benediction,” poetry.us 

“Repartee,” Verse Daily, 2012

“The Thing to Do” (poem) plus the essay “How This Poem Came to Be Written,” Reading, Writing and the Occasional Recipe, 2012

“Numbers,” Intersections– Poetry With Mathematics, 2012

“Armistice,” “The Keeper of Secrets,” “True to Form,” Valparaiso Poetry Review, 2009

“The Thing to Do,” “Poem at Forty-Five,” “Words of Our Time,” Eclectica