Writings

Selected Poems Online:

POETRY magazine, June 2021, "ALZ Ghazal"

Narrative Magazine, 2022, Poem of the Week feature of "Pineapple" 

The Missouri Review, January 2023, Poem of the Week feature of "Stone Fruit"

New Ohio Review, 2023, "has this happened to you"

Voetica, Recorded poems from ONLY and other books available here

The Common, Mary 2024, Poetry feature of "Pissed-Off Ars Poetica Sonnet Crown"

Tikkun, February 2024, "Pictograph"

New Letters, June 2024, "Julia Looking Forward to the Hate" and "I Think We Could"

 

Poems published in 2023

“Silence Sounds Different Now” and “A Good End” (The Hudson Review), “Meadow” (Beloit Poetry Journal), “Igloo” (Iowa Review), “You” (Prairie Schooner), “Sunset Loon Lake” (Tikkun), "Imago" (A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia), “North” (Notre Dame Review), “First Night in the Room above the Junk Shop” and “the awl” (Catamaran), “Julia Looking Forward to the Hate” and “I Think We Could” (New Letters), "Another Life," "Praise," “You, Aging & Left,” and “Throbber” (The MacGuffin), “—Ish” (Pedestal Magazine), “June Moon” (Philadelphia Stories), "Port-O-Let Poet Laureate," "Homemaker Poet," "New Ars Poetica," and "Ars Poetica with Clickbait" (Up Your Ars Poetica Anthology), “No Longer Medusa,” “WRATH, Talking about The Change," and “Apologies to my OBGYN” (The Power of the Feminine “I”), “Abeyance,” (The Weight of Motherhood Anthology).

Prose published in 2023

Review of The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy for The Common

Poems published in 2022

“Our Bedroom” (New Ohio Review), “Spanish Web” (December Magazine), “Lupine” (Five Points), “Shine and Blur” (Notre Dame Review), “To the Sonnet” and “Missing AA Flight 11” (Quarterly West), “Sunset Assembly” (Blue Will Rise Over Yellow: An International Poetry Anthology for Ukraine), “Five o’clock Blow on the Cape” (Green Hills Literary Lantern), “Dirigible” and “Consent” (Tar River Poetry Review), “House” (Salamander Magazine), “A Pity” (The Common), “Sneaky like That” and “I Keep Hoping” (Great River Review), “How it Begins” (The Southern Review), “The First Hundred Days” (Persimmon Tree), “What I Want” and “Something Blue” (Ms. Magazine), “ALZ Ghazal” (Columbia Grangers), “Abeyance” (Stone Gathering), “Ars Poetica with Clickbait” (Lascaux Review), “At the Motel 6 the Night Deedee Died” (Verse Daily), “At the Train Station circa 1982” (The Hudson Review).
 

Prose published in 2022

“Steward” (Notre Dame Review, Spring/Summer 2022)
“Freedom & Form, or Tricking Ourselves into Delight & Play” (DMQ Quarterly, Fall 2022) 

Poems published in 2021 or earlier

New Letters, 2021, "Two Poems"

Narrative Mazagine, 2021, "Divine Apparitions"

Tikkun, 2020, "Funicular"

Narrative Magazine, 2020, Poem of the Week feature of “Second Gratitude”

Hudson Review, 2020, "Prayer for the Young"

Blackbird, 2020, "New Ars Poetica" 

Salamnder, 2018, "Compline" and "Guernica" 

American Academy of Poets, Poem a Day, 2015, "Abeyance"

Atlanta Review, "Mom’s Canoe"

MARGIE, "Apologies to my OBGYN"

The Cortland Review: "Parts Of Speech,” “Let Deer,” and “Moose, Bear, and the Moon"  (Poetry, Issue 77), "Blazon”  and  “Promise Me"  (Poetry, Winter 2014 Feature), and “Petals”  (Poetry, Issue 58)

The Frost Place, “From Function, Form,” first published by The Hudson Review 

The Hopkins Review, 2015, “Contradance”

The Hudson Review, 2015, "The Notch,” “Bright Juice,” “Nuns Fret Not,” and “Dirt"

The Humanist, 2011, "Last Bison Gone” and “Perennial"

The Jet Fuel Review Blog, “Dynamic Response,” first published in Mid-American Review

Journal of the American Medical Association: "Head Injury Odyssey" (1/9/08),   "Heart" (11/7/12), "Two Triolets for Lyme Disease" (12/19/12),  "Refractory" (12/26/12), "Mitral Valve Prolapse" (1/2/13), "Compound Depressed Fracture" (1/16/13)

Omniverse 2014, “Biography,” “But What Can Wake You,” and “Eulogy”

Poemeleon 2015, “Courtesy Flush” and “Oops,” first published in Los Angeles Review and The Ledge

Poethead, 2015, “Prayer for my New Daughter,” “Sufferance,” “Blame,” “Gratitude,” & “Only,” first published in North American Review, Bellingham Review, Seattle Review, North American Review, and the Hudson Review

Poetry Daily:  “Exultate Jubilate” (8/15/16), “His Master’s House” and “Meet Pilgrim” (4/15/15),  “Dynamic Response of Multi-Layered Soil Media in the Frequency Domain" (12/1/15),   “Dream of the Rood" (10/2/14), "Father’s Day Race” (12/11/10)

Portside, 2017, “Greed, Exercising Noblesse Oblige” & 2015, “Altoona to Marin”

Stanford Magazine, May/June 2015, “You-Know-Where-Again”

Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, Fall 2009, chapbook with art by Lorna Stevens, “Camouflage,” “Spring Will Come,” & “Steward”

Tikkun Daily, 2/13/11, Excerpts from God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World with art by Lorna Stevens

Valparaiso Poetry Review, “Prodigal” & “Elocution Lesson”

Verse Daily:  “The Quest” (8/18/16),  “Vernal” (7/14/15), “Stork” (8/20/12), “Perennial" (10/28/10), “What You Work For” (10/12/10),  “Teleology” (9/12/10)  

Selected Prose Online:

Weekly Poetry Sunday Columns for Women’s Voices for Change, 2015-2021. As poetry editor for Women’s Voices for Change along with poet Amanda Moore, I wrote a weekly column featuring a poem by a woman poet, including an explication and discussion of issues of craft. 

Zyzzyva, Review of Catwalk by Meryl Natchez

Poetry Sunday, Review of Ledger by Jane Hirschfield

American Literary Review, “Something Blue,” winner of the 2015 short fiction contest

Massachusetts Review, “Iguana Iguana”

Writer's Digest, “On Becoming a Writer”

Poetry Flash, Interview of Susan Terris, “She Asked for Light”

Rumpus, Review of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

Rumpus, Review of Beamish Boy by Albert Flynn DeSilver

Poetry Flash, Review of After the Firestorm by Susan Kolodny, originally published in Calyx