Poems & Stories

Surreal cupid and 3 monkeys
“Maroger’s Magic,” detail. This painting by Louise Craven Hourrigan inspired a poem published in Nimrod and in the poetry collection, Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters

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INDEX OF PRINT & ONLINE POEMS

      • “Surveillance Video Shows Suitcases Resisting Arrest” forthcoming in Pleiades special folio, “Silences of War: Erasure Within Conflict”
      • “Morning Unmoors Us” forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal
      • “Half Past 11:00” forthcoming in Cola Literary Review (was Yemassee)
      • “Yesterday We Will Stay at the Inn We Almost Remembered” in Fatal Flaw, November 2021. Read online
      • “Minutes Have Souls” in 50 Give or Take, Vine Leaves Press, 2021 #338. Order from Amazon
      • “Two Rooms Sit Back to Back and Pretend to be Content” (reprint) in 50-Word Stories, July 2021. Read online
      • “Cursing Lessons” in New Ohio Review, June 2021. Read online
      • “Whish” in Ploughshares, Winter 2020-21
      • “Captiva Island” in River Styx, 3rd place in the International Poetry Contest
      • “Travel Advisory” and “Cyborg Sister” (reprint) in Speculative North magazine. Order from Amazon
      • “BuzzFuse Lists the World’s Most Extraordinary Women” and “No One Notices Bubbles Behind the Wallpaper at a Wedding Reception” in South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), February 2021
      • “The Secret Lives of Socks” in SWWIM, November 27, 2020. Read online
      • “Clear Skies, Unseasonably Cold” in Mayday Magazine, July 21, 2020. Read online
      • “Under a Calder Mobile, August 1959” in AGNI 91. Read online
      • “Auto Corrected” in Cleaver 29. Read online
      • “Cyborg Sister” and “The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion” in Pleiades 40.1
      • “First a Throb of Wings” in Poet Lore, Fall/Winter 2019
      • “Postcards I Wish I’d Sent Lisbeth When We Were Girls And Her Parents Sent Her Away” (reprint) in What We Talk about When We Talk About It: Variations on the Theme of Love, Vol. 2., an anthology from Darkhouse Books. Order from Amazon.
      • “Midnight on Mirror Lake” forthcoming in Celebration of the Earth, an anthology from Foothills Publishing.
      • “I Renounce My Life as a Philodendron” in Salamander issue 49, Fall/Winter 2019-2020
      • “7-Eleven Blues” in What We Talk about When We Talk About It: Variations on the Theme of Love, Vol. 1., an anthology from Darkhouse Books. Order from Amazon
      • “The Temperature Reaches 102” in A Constellation of Kisses, an anthology from Terrapin Books. Order from Amazon.
      • “Dysgeographica” in Chautauqua, summer 2020
      • “Televisions in Hospital Waiting Rooms” (read online) and “The Lupus Society Wants to Know if I Have Old Clothes for Their Collection” in Stone Canoe Journal,  February 2019
      • “In Which I Try to Leave My Husband, But Can’t Find the Words” in The Massachusetts Review, spring 2019. Read online
      • “Under Anesthesia, I Remember a Watermelon with Slippery Seeds” in Rogue Agent, October 2018. Read online
      • “Biology 101” in Poets Reading the News, October 2018. Read online
      • “Thirst” in Last Call: The Anthology of Beer, Wine & Spirits Poetry from World Enough Writers, an imprint of Concrete Wolf, Summer 2018. Order from Amazon
      • “Many Happy Returns” in Red Eft Review, April 17, 2018.  Read online
      • “Woozy in the Pool at Mar-a-Lago at 7:00 A.M.” in Poets Reading The News, April 3, 2018. Read online
      • “Obloquy to an Olive” and “Waiting for 5:00 at Bailey’s Pub and Grill” in Of Burgers & Barrooms, an anthology from Main Street Rag, Fall 2017
      • “Imposter” in Spillway, Summer 2017. Read online
      • “Darwin’s Daughter” in At Sea (Women’s Studies Quarterly), Spring/Summer 2017. Read online. Order from Amazon
      • “My House Is Menstruating” and “Boys Infest Our Building” in Columbia Poetry Review, Spring 2017
      • “Postcards I Wish I’d Sent Lisbeth When We Were Girls and Her Parents Sent Her Away,” reprint in Ice Cream Poems, a World Enough Writers anthology from Concrete Wolf, Summer 2017. Order from Amazon
      • “White Lightning” in r.kv.r.y., April 2017. Read online
      • “Where are the teeth I slipped under my pillow?” in the LOST & FOUND Poetry & Prose Series from Silver Birch Press, March 2017. Read online
      • “The circus has a new address,” “To Hell with Hopkins,” and a mock circus ad in Heavy Feather Review (#NotMyPresident series), February 2017. Read online
      • “What Alien Astronauts Fear” in River Styx, Issue 97, January 2017.  Contest Honorable Mention
      • “Killing Mr. Big” in Salamander Magazine, Issue 43, December 2016.  Pushcart Prize Nominee
      • “Visiting Hours” in Water~Stone Review, Fall 2016
      • “Old Woman with Goose” (read online), “Meroger’s Magic,” and “When the Temperature Reaches 102” in Nimrod International Journal, Fall 2016. Contest Finalist
      • “Reflections,” “Simulcast,” and “Slugs” in Nimrod International Journal, Spring/Summer 2016
      • “American Gothic” and “Missing From the Box” in Chautauqua, June 2016
      • “The Folded Paper Game” in Salamander Magazine, December 2015
      • “At the Columbarium” in New Ohio Review, Fall 2015  Read online
      • “After the Proposal” in Chautauqua, June 2015
      • “Postcards I Wish I’d Sent Lizbeth” in The Fourth River, Spring 2015
      • “Southern Comfort” in Pembroke Magazine, Spring 2015
      • “Flight Patterns” in Pilgrimage Magazine, Spring 2015
      • “Tankas for a Chilly Afternoon” in Undertow Tanka Review, March 2015
      • “House Beautiful” and “Beware the Pearly Gates” in Stone Canoe Journal, February 2015
      • “Stopping By My Childhood Home” in Creatures of Habitat, an anthology from Main Street Rag, Spring 2015
      • “Perspective Dreaming” in Water~Stone Review, Fall 2014  Read online
      • “Southbound” in Nimrod International Journal, Fall 2014
      • “I Heard a River Downstairs” inThe Asheville Poetry Review, 2013. Read online
      • “Drowning in Paradise” in Quiddity International Literary Journal, April 2014
      • “Georgian Colonial” in LUMMOX 2 (“Place”) Read online   Order from Amazon
      • “When Time Turns Digital” in Bohemia Journal, September 2013
      • “These Short Days Confuse My Soul” The Licking River Review, Northern Kentucky University, 2013

INDEX OF PRINT & ONLINE FICTION & FLASH

      • “Resurrecting Mama” in Limestone Journal, Winter 2015/2016
      • “790 Terahertz” (prose poem), Fineline Competition Finalist in Mid-American Review, November 2015. Contest Finalist
      • “Pig Latin” in Existere, spring/summer 2013
      • “Anything Low Will Do” in SNReview, fall/winter 2012  Read online.  Order from Amazon
      • “You Thought You Were Rid of Me, But…” in Pearl 46 , fall 2012
      • “Strange Sunset” in Yuan Yang, A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, Vol. X., spring 2012
      • “Legacy” in Berkeley Fiction Review 32, April 2012
      • “Special Ed” in Verdad magazine, spring 2011  Read online
      • “Feeling Red” in The Fourth River, fall 2011
      • “My New Do” in Zahir, October 2011 Order from Amazon

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