INDEX: Poems & Short Prose

2024

“If My Dentist Could Probe Deep Enough,” DMQ Review, April 2024. Read online
“Beyond Repair,” Rust & Moth, February 2024, Read online
“At the Border, ___ to Declare” forthcoming in Stone Canoe
“Social Security Asks Whether I’ve Ever Been Married,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Winter/Spring 2024
“The River Falls for the Moon” forthcoming in New York Quarterly, April 2024

2023

“Blue Yarn” in The Cincinnati Review miCRo series. Read online
“A Miracle for Breakfast: Reading Elizabeth Bishop on Serifos” (essay) in Off Assignment, October 2023. Read online
“Climate Change” in tiny wren. Read online
“Window Treatment” in Atticus Review, August 15, 2023. Read online
“Memory” in Poet Lore, winter/spring 2023
“Prayer for Rooms We’re Forbidden to Enter” in SWWIM, March 31,2023. Read online
“Surveillance Video Shows Suitcases Resisting Arrest” in Pleiades special folio, “Silences of War: Erasure Within Conflict,” Spring 2023
“Morning Unmoors Us” in Beloit Poetry Journal
“Half Past 11:00” in Cola Literary Review, February 2023. Read online

2021

“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. Read online
“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

2020

“I Renounce My Life as a Philodendron” in Salamander issue 49, Fall/Winter 2019-2020
“Dysgeographica” in Chautauqua, summer 2020
“The Secret Lives of Socks” in SWWIM, November 27, 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

2019

“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.
“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.
“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

2018

“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

2017

“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

2016

“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

2015

“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
“Resurrecting Mama” (Short Story) in Limestone Journal, Winter 2015/2016
“790 Terahertz,” (Flash Fiction), Fineline Competition Finalist in Mid-American Review, November 2015.

2014

2013

“I Heard a River Downstairs” inThe Asheville Poetry Review, 2013. Read online
“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
“Pig Latin” (short story) in Existere, spring/summer 2013