Selected Poetry

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Pine Hills Review, This Skeleton.

Panoply, A Literary Zine, What Hair? 

Ruminate, Dear Mother.

Diagram,  Kenyon College Remembered.

On the Seawall, The Lunch Lady: A Pantoum.

Bear River Review, In My Neighborhood Park: DC.

Frontier Poetry, Hall, Montana, Easter Weekend.

• One Art, “America 2025,” February 6, 2025.
• Writers Resist, “The Social Contract,” upcoming 2025.
• Spoon River Poetry Review, “A Girl Walks into a Room” and “Poor World,” Winter 2024.
• The Antigonish Review, “Luxembourg Garden, Pose, They Don’t Come Back, Dear Believer, Let’s Pretend Jesus Meant It, and Nothing Stops Us,” 2024.
• Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, “The Good Dream,” 2024.
• NonBinary Review Issue #34: Lies for Children, “Dear Believer,” November 2023.
• Anti-Heroin Chic, “Rupture” and “They Don’t Come Back,” August 2023.
• Panoplyzine,”What Hair?” issue 23, 2023.
• Thimble, “First Dog,” spring 2023.
• Bear River Review, “In My Neighborhood Park: DC,” 2022.
• Ruminate, “Dear Mother,” 2022.
• On the Seawall, “The Lunch Lady,” August 2022.
• Diagram, Kenyon College Remembered, fall 2022.

• Sepia Journal, Hands and Our Lady of Victory 1981, September 2021.
• Storm Cellar 7.2, White Women Flinging Cans of Paint at the Wall.
• Yes, Poetry, In the Surgeon’s Office.
• One,This is Not a Poem, Issue 14. (Nominated for Best of the Net)
• The American Journal of Poetry, Five Witness Poems.
• Rattle,Who am I? Tribute to Rust Belt Poets, #57.
• Concis,The Little Match Girl.
• The Tampa Review,How Slowly the Brain Registers.
• The Doll Collection Anthology, Dolls for Sale, Terrapin Books.
• 5 x 5, Veni, Vidi, Vici.
• Rattle, Tell Me When it Starts to Hurt.