Publications

2022

“Letter to Plumly from Erie, Late at Night” and “What it Was” in American Writers Review, 2022
“The harmony past knowing sounds more deeply than the known” in Jelly Bucket, No 12
“Some Nights the Sky Has Nothing to Say” and “The Music Sparrows Add” in Willows Wept Review, Vol 25
“Silence, healing” and “They raise their voices at stone idols…they have understood so little of the gods” in Pinyon, No 34
“The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow” and “Though what the waking see is deadly, what the sleeping see is death” in The Main Street Rag, vol 27, no 1, also featured on Verse Daily March 10, 2022
“Pathos in the Persistence of Hedonism,” Sign of the Times,” and “What Can’t Hold Up” in Sequestrum, No 32
“To Measure with Any Accuracy” in Cloudbank, No 16
“The Audacity of Wind Straining Shirts” in After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art, No. 44
“All the Echos” I-70 Review, Vol 16
“Remembering the Scent of Fresh-Mown Hay” in Vallum, Vol 19, No 2
“A Whiff of the Absolute” and Songs Sung in Absentia” in The Lakeshore Review, No 2
“The Influence of Water” and “Nothing, Today, Is the Same” in Plant and Poetry Journal

2021

“Over Any Music” in Chicago Quarterly Review: Vol 34
“The Resurrection of This” in Valley Voices: Vol 21, No 2
“The Stones of Ruins a Sentence” and “The Rhythms of Local Expressions” in The American Journal of Poetry: Vol 10
“Fire of all things is the judge and ravisher” and “The revenant keeps watch over the dead and living” in Western Humanities Review: Vol 74, No 1
“An Effigy Burning, Abandoned” reprinted in Verse Daily: (reprint)
“To Touch Ruins like This,” “Being Here,” and “Folklore of Wind” in the Kerf: Fall 2020
“Close Enough to the River” in Cloudbank: No 15
review of Stephen Dunn’s Pagan Virtues in Mid-American Review: Vol 40, No 2
“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world” and “After death comes nothing hoped for nor imagined” in The Laurel Review: Vol 54, No 1
“The Heart, It’s Said, Wants What the Heart Wants” in Bellevue Literary Review: No 41
“The Resurrection of This” in Valley Voices: Vol 21, No 2
“Of Drive-Ins and Cowboy Bars” in Tipton Poetry Journal, No 50
“This Alphabet of Rendered Ice,” “Wayward Guardian Angels,” and “Rituals in Lingerie and Insomnia” in Flying South, No 8
“The Stones of Ruins a Sentence” and “The Rhythms of Local Expressions” in The American Journal of Poetry, Vol 10

2020

“Anything but Classical” in The Laurel Review: Vol 52, No 2
“A Ballad of Anchors & Scythes” in Plainsongs: Vol 40, No 1
“Music Retrieved” and “On the Eaves of the House Next Door” in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 63, No 2
“Hummingbird and Window,” “To Die in Erie, Pennsylvania,” “Before All Hell Breaks Loose,” and “Sentenced to a Night of Playing the Blues” in Dispatches (on-line): poetics-for-the-more-than-human-world
“Verities We Tend to Ignore” and “A Solution’s Not Redemption” in Dogwood: Vol 19
“All the Guessing Gets Us” in The Florida Review: Vol 44, No 1
review of Tina May Hall’s novel The Snow Collectors in Mid-American Review: Vol 40, No 1
“A Glissando on the Quietest Instrument,” “Almost a Sonnet on a Train to Points West,” and “The Carcass of What Was” in Prism Review: No 22
“Of Erasure and What Goes On,” “Memory and Its Relatives,” and “An Effigy Burning, Abandoned” in Redactions: Poetry & Poetics: No 24
“Unidentified Figure in Deserted House” (with Douglas Smith) in The Gettysburg Review: Vol 33, No 1
“Silence Doesn’t Have Even a Hint” in Tupelo Quarterly (online)
“To Die in Erie, Pennsylvania,” “Before All Hell Breaks Loose,” and “Sentenced to a Night of Playing the Blues” in Poetics for the More-Than-Human World (anthology)
“As Much as It Can Numb Us,” “Ruminations on the Nature of Space & Self-Deception,” “What We Have to Hold on To,” “Sent Us of the Air,” and “The Josephine Made of Oils” in The Chariton Review: Vol 42, Nos 1 & 2

2019

“Drunk Ghosts & Redemption” in San Pedro River Review: Vol 11, No 1
“What Sorrow Lives In” in North Dakota Quarterly: Vol 85, Nos 1-4
“The soul is undiscovered, though explored forever to a depth beyond report” in Hotel Amerika: Vol 17
“Air-Born Fugues,” “Full of Strings and Forgiveness,” and “The Unpredictability of the Past” in Potomac Review: Vol 64
“A Mast, Without a Ship, Lit at Night” and “Of Accuracy & Laws” in The Aurorean: Vol 24, No 1
“Not Any Sort of Harp” in Illuminations: Vol 34
“A Study in the Opacity of Memory and Lingerie,” “Leaving a Place of Smoke and Dire Prophesies,” and “Stories of Blue Herons in Winter” in Raritan: Vol 38, No 4
“Will-o’-the-Wisp” in Cream City Review: Vol 43, No 1
“The Amniotic Dark of a Passing Ford” in Midwest Review: Vol 7
“Segues” in Prairie Schooner: Vol 93, No 3
“A Falling Piano Is a Classic” in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 63, No 1
“A Music Tempting to Say” in Boulevard: No 103
“Don’t Mention the Stoli” in Naugatuck River Review: No 22
“More Than Rumor” in Cumberland River Review: Vol 8, No 4
“Raising a Guinness to Forgetfulness,” “Between the Locals & Their Past,” “Study in Motion with Ruins,” “Questions of Space & Time in Kinsale,” and “Abandoned Stone Cottage in the Hills Above Kinsale” in Parhelion: October 2019
“Correspondence with Fog and Consolation,” “To Support the Theory,” and “Canine Riffs in the Neighborhood” in Ascent: November 1, 2019
“Etching the Sky with Notes” in riverSedge: Vol 32, No 1

2018

“Psalms on Sheet Metal with Margaritas” in Crab Orchard Review: Vol 22, No 2
“That Which Is Indescribable,” “Almost Mechanical,” and “An Elegant Architecture” in Pudding Magazine: No 66
“Not Even a Decent Wind to Blame” in Moon City Review: Vol 18
“Churning Up Filthy Water” in Kestrel: No 39
“Something Like Spanish” and “Light That Would Make Rembrandt Weep or Laugh Out Loud” in Armarolla: No III (Nicosia, Cyprus)
“The Necessity of Sacrifice” in The MacGuffin: Vol 34, No 3
“Of Light and Shadow, Wilting” in Bateau: Vol 8, No 1
“With Calliope Music Wheezing Out Car Radios” in AGNI: No 88
“When the Sky Gets Involved” and “What Keeps the Dead from Drifting” in The Laurel Review: Vol 51, No 2

2017

“By the Bandon on a Rare Night of Calm” in Hotel Amerika: Vol 15
“Poem with the Death of Larry Levis Inside It” (with Douglas Smith) in The Gettysburg Review: Vol 30, No 1
“After the Carnival Closes Down” in The Gettysburg Review: Vol 30, No 4
“Last Words to My Father” in Paterson Literary Review: Vol 45
“Make It New, He Said” in Ilanot Review: Summer 2017
“Against Memory, the Lights of Cottages” in Notre Dame Review: No 44
“The Dust That Come Spring Will Be Loam” in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 61, No 1
“Time Is a Game Played Beautifully by Children” in Dunes Review: Vol 21, No 2
“It Isn’t Always Classical,” “Translations in Coal Dust,” and “Using What Light There Is” in Arts & Letters: No 35 (Arts & Letters/Rumi Poetry Prize Winner)
“If the Clown Masks Weren’t in the Way” in The New Guard: Vol 6
“Mimicry” (with Douglas Smith) in The American Journal of Poetry: Vol 4

2016

“Corpses, Like Night Soil, Get Carted Off” and “Yet Let’s Not Make Rash Guesses Our Most Lucid Thoughts” in The Gettysburg Review: Vol 29, No 1
“The Girl Who Made Love in Cemeteries” and “The Lyrical Prophesies of a Spanish Guitar” in The Laurel Review: Volume 48, No 2
“Faces Turned Away” in Concho River Review: Vol 30, No 1
“Sound thinking is to listen well and choose one course of action” in Exit 7: Vol 5
“The Singing of Accidental Larks” in MUSE Literary Journal: Spring 2016
“All people ought to know themselves and everyone be wholly mindful” in Redactions: Vol 20
“All I Can Taste Is the Storm” in Cease, Cows (on-line): July 2016
“With a Pint and Good Company,” “This Lapse Between Clouds,” and “A Voice the Bandon Would Recognize” in Common Ground Review: Vol 18, No 1
“That Old Pitchfork and Fire Urge” in Permafrost (on-line): Vol 38. No 2
“The Under the Rivers Humming Cross of Rome, Georgia” (story) in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 60, No 1
“Enough to Forgive All of History” in Apalachee Review: Vol 66
“All Subterfuge” in Crazyhorse: No 90
“The Rule that Makes Its Subject is a Sentence of Hard Labor,” and “Stupidity is Better Kept a Secret than Displayed” in Ninth Letter: Vol 13, No 2

2015

“Insolence Needs Drowning Worse than Wildfire” in Grasslimb: Vol 13, No 1
“Absent the Pale Towers” in Ekphrasis: Vol 7, No 1
“Fishing the Sky without Bait” in Arroyo Literary Review: Vol 7
“With Walt Whitman in a Couple of Hotel Rooms” in Slant: No 29
“Under the Comb the Tangle and the Straight Path Are the Same” in Alaska Quarterly Review: Vol 32, Nos 1 & 2
“Early Morning Estrangement and Other Tunes” in North Dakota Quarterly: Vol 80, No 3
“Region and the Human Heart: On Richard Hugo” in Asheville Poetry Review: Vol 22, No 1
“Yearning Hurts, and What Release May Come of It Feels Much like Death” in Grasslimb: Vol 13, No 2
“The Music of a Thing” in Eureka Literary Magazine: Vol 20, No 1
“Just as the river where I step is not the same and is, so I am as I am not” and “One’s bearing shapes one’s fate” in Iodine Poetry Journal: Vol 16, No 2
“This Unapologetic Blue” in Ekphrasis: Vol 7, No 2
“Sadly, Everything’s in Flux” in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 59, No 1
“Music Inherent in the Extremities” in Off the Coast: Vol 21, No 4
“As all things change to fire, and fire exhausted falls back into things,” “Hunger, even in the elements, and insolence,” “Thus in the abysmal dark the soul is known by scent,” “From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony,” “Arguing the same we disagree; singing together we compete,” and “Dogs…bark at what they cannot understand” in Poetry Salzburg Review: No 28
“What Could Be a Prayer” and “Beyond the Charred Remnants” in Natural Bridge: No 33

2014
– “Tattoo of a Road Runner,” published in Ambit (England): No 215.
– “What Can’t Be Said, Ever,” “Insomnia as Accomplice,” and “Distance as Unreliable Narrator,” published in Moon City Review: 2014.
– “A Very Old Music” (Fiction), published in Moon City Review: 2014
– “An Opera with No Libretto” published in The Common: No 07.
– “The Romans Made Gods of Their Ancestors,” published in Cimarron Review: No 187.
– “Swear Not by the Moon, th’ Inconstant Moon,” published in Prairie Schooner: Vol 88, No 3.
– “The Hip Bones of a Woman as Runes” published in Cloudbank: No 8.

2013
– “Meditation Through a Neon Circle” published in Bateau: Vol 5, No 1.
– “Echolocation and Memory” published in Escape into Life.
– “Light & the Remnants of Storm,” and “What It Means to Last” published in  The Aurorean: Vol 18, No 1 (Showcase Poet).
– “The Importance of the Right Punctuation” published in Agni: No 77.
– “Poe at Home in Kinsale” published in Georgetown Review: Vol 14, No 1.
– “Sad on Poles in the Midst of Fields” published in Blueline: Vol 34.
– “An Invisible Violin with Perfect Pitch” published in The Southern Review: Vol 49, No 3
– “Early Light in Erie,” and “Palimpsest Vespers” publised in Albatross: No 24.
– “Woman, Asleep,” published in  Construction, October 11, 2013.
– “Scribbled Water a Constant Reminder” published in Heliotrope: Vol 8 (final issue of journal).
– “Studio Musician with Trembling Hands and Maker’s on His Breath” published in  Concho River Review: Vol 27, No 2.
– “On the Politics of Graffiti & the Moon’s Dark Side” published in The Cape Rock: Vol 41, No 2.

2012
– “The Vocabulary of Loss” published in Albatross: No 23.
– “The Eternal Pleasures of Greek Omelets and Love” published in Pedestal: No 68.
– “For Everyone Who Has Lost More Than They Had” and “Attraction Needs a Medium to Pass from One to Another” published in Spillway: No 18.
– “The Dancing Bear and Figaro” published in The Greensboro Review: No 92.
– “An Indefinable Evening in the Neighborhood” and “Beauty, Stationary, Is Only Half True” published in Spillway: 19.
– “Questions Passing a Small Pennsylvania Town in Autumn” and “A Skein of Mallards” published in Silk Road: Vol 7, No 2.

2011
– “Months of Close Work with Ice” published in Xavier Review: Vol 31, No 1.
– “Photo of a Cardinal” and “Introduction for ‘Dream Landscape with Sleepwalker’” (Essay) published in Of a Monstrous Child: An Anthology of Creative Writing Relationships: University of Washington Press (2o11).
– “As Simple as Math and Gravity” published in The Chaffey Review: Vol 5.
– “Chicken Little and the Boys Have Some Words” (Fiction) published in Alaska Quarterly Review: Vol 28, Nos 1 & 2.
– “The Music of a Woman’s Spine” published in Great River Review: No 54.
– “To Account for Such Grace,” “Early Pastoral,” “The Consolation of a Company of Acrobats,” and “A Temporary Delaying of the Inevitable” published in The Missouri Review: Vol 34, No 1 (Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Poetry Prize, 2010).
– “To Hell With the Deconstructionists” published in Bayou Magazine: No 54.
– “The Desire to Keep Saying Yes” (Essay) published in The Georgia Review: Vol 65, No 2.
– “The Second Coming in Muscle and Fake Leather” published in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature: Vol 27, No 2.
– Review of Stephen Dunn’s Here and Now and Review of Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age and Carsten René Nielsen’s House Inspections published in Mid-American Review: Vol 31, No 2.

2010
– “Photo of a Cardinal” 50-51 published in New England Review: Vol 30, No 4.
– “No Statues of Blind Poets,” “Ode to English Landscapes,” and “The Hieroglyph of the Horizon” published in Minnetonka Review: Vol 5.
– “The Fat Man Sings of Despair” published in Alaska Quarterly Review: Vol 27, Nos 1 & 2.
– “Made of the Body” published in The Tule Review: winter 2010.
– “The Revision of Something Imagined” (Zone 3 Poetry Award) published in Zone 3: Vol 25, No 1.
– “Slivers of Night, Dreaming” published in New South: Vol 3, No 1.
– “A Constellation too Easy to See to Ignore” and “Our Sentence, It Seems, Release” published in Bateau: Vol 3, No 2.
– “Claims of the Body” (Fiction) published in The Laurel Review: Vol 44, No 1.
– “Morning with Loon Drifting Celtic Waves” published in The Aurorean: Vol 15, No 1.
– “Things Still Worth Trying to Do” published in Crab Creek Review: Vol 23, No 1.
– “Lack of Intent” (Fiction) and “Of Divinity and a Dog’s Bark” published in Indiana Review: Vol 32, No 1.
– “A History of What Music Can Do” published in Chautauqua: 7.
– “Signs of Collapse” (Pushcart nomination) and “Memory Often Doesn’t Play Requests” published in Illuminations: Vol 26.
– “The Prophet, the Gorge, and the Red Diver” (Fiction) published in Permafrost: Vol 32.
– “Madagascar” and “When the Stones in Ruins Are Damp” published in Prairie Schooner: Vol 84, No 3.
– “Driving at Night in a Storm” 76 published in Eclipse: Vol 21.
– “The Opposite of Love” 99 published in Cimarron Review: No 172.
– “Memory and Mozart” reprinted in Dwelling in Possibility: Voices of Erie County.
– “Monk at the Piano” and “Unresolved Equations” published in The Chariton Review: Vol 33, No 2.
– “Monsters We Know Well Enough to Name” and “Not Every Song for God” published in Spillway: No 14.
– “Another Night of Storm in Kinsale” and “At the Farmers’ Market, the Dead” published in Raritan: Vol 30, No 2.
– “Assumptions of Wrens” published in Yemassee: Vol 16, No 1.
– “Children of the Moon” published in Whiskey Island Magazine: No 58.
– “Soundtrack for Mystery in a Field of Muddy Angels,” and “The Bestowing of Grace in Perry Square” published in Voices Israel: Vol 36.
– “Forgiveness for a Late February Morning” published in Green Mountains Review: Vol 23, No 2.

2009
– “The Bitter Residue of Sin, or Lemon” (Fiction) published in Salt Hill: Vol 22.
– “Our Dead Don’t Speak Foreign Tongues” published in The Southern Review: Vol 45, No 1.
– “Jukebox Snow Angels” published in Puerto del Sol: Vol 44, No 1.
– “An Ephemeral Epic Written Absentmindedly,” “Listening to a Scratched Recording of Bird’s ‘Lover Man,’” and “The Indignity of Being Forgotten” published in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley: Vol 8, No 2.
– “Just Beginning to Fracture” published in Karamu: Vol 21, No 2.
– “Music Only the Body Can Hear” published in The Seneca Review: Vol 39, No 1.
– “Safe Where It Is” (Fiction) published in Arts & Letters: No 22.
– “Silence and Sound the Body Dances With” published in Cimarron Review: No 169 (Fall 2009).
– “The Ongoingness of Now” published in The Journal: Vol 33, No 2.
– “Out of Jukeboxes and Car Radios” and “A Failed Translation of the World” published in The Laurel Review: Vol 43, No 2.
– “From the Get Go” published in The Dos Passos Review: Vol 6, No 2.
– “Without Grace, Out of the Sky” and “The Road Humming a Sinatra Tune” published in The Chaffey Review: Vol 3.
– “Songs of Lost and Remembered Water” published in The Texas Review: Vol 30, Nos 1 & 2.
– “Before This Sentence Ends” published in The Florida Review: Vol 34, No 2.
– “Off the Hook” and “Maddened by Longing” published in American Literary Review Vol 20, No 1

2008
– “Whatever Light Needs to Be Forgiven Of” published in Laurel Review: Vol 42, No 1.
– “In a Trawler’s Wake” published in Haight Ashbury Literary Journal: Vol 26, No 1.
– “Lucky Enough to Be Able to Pay in the Y Not Bar” published in Blue Collar Review: Vol 11, No 2.
– Review of Sean Thomas Dougherty’s Broken Hallelujahs published in Cimarron Review: No 163, Spring 2008.
– “Under the White Scar of a Face” published in Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008.
– “The Fat Man Remembers a Late Night Thrill” published in Main Street Rag: Vol 13, No 2.
– “Late Morning Behind a Church in Kinsale” and “Everything Said” published in Tar River Poetry: Vol 47, No 2.
– “Husks,” “Loss Has Left the Moon Charred,” and “Some Long Forgotten Sea Chantey” published in Chautauqua: Issue 5 (20^th Anniversary Issue).
– “Forgetting History & Loss” published in Blueline: Vol 29.”
– “Every Song on the Radio Sad” published in The Louisville Review: No 63.
– “Older Music from America” published in Cairn: The New St. Andrews Review: No 43.
– “Meditation at Night on a Woman in Another State” published in Two Rivers Review: Issue 11.
– “A Crude Morning Sermon” 17 (Pushcart nomination) published in The Aurorean: Vol 8, No 2.
– “How a Bus Terminal’s like a Jukebox” and “Harmonicas and Blue Skies” published in New England Review: Vol 29, No 4.
– “Breathing in the Red Balloon” and “Meditation on a Sky Beginning to Snow” published in The Chaffin Journal: 2008 edition.
– “Defining Duende” and “A Sign Coming On, Going Off” published in Eclipse: Vol 19.

2007
– “The Ideogram for Passion” and “Between the Sentence and the Line, It Gets Said” (Essay) published in Redactions: Poetry & Politics: Issue 8/9.
– “Under a Sky like an Opera Gone Mad” (Fiction) published in Nimrod International Journal: Vol 51, No 1.
– “Dwarfed by a Pair of Pudgy Hands,” “Long Enough to Gather Dust,” and “Animals in Their Dark Compartments” published in REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters: Vol 32, No 1.
– “Not Marrow or Muscle, but Love,” “Migrations,” and “Figures in the Light and the Cold” published inSnow*Vigate: Issue 2, Winter 2007.
– Review of Philip Terman’s Rabbis of the Air published in Mid-American Review: Vol 28, No 1.
– “Between the Touch of One Lover & the Touch of Another” published in Redivider: Vol 4, No 2.

2006
– “The Beauty of Music Doesn’t Have to Be Human” (Pushcart nomination) published in Bellevue Literary Review: Vol 6, No 1.
– Review of Sandor Csoori’s Before and After the Fall and Olga Orozco’s Engravings Torn from Insomina published in Mid-American Review: Vol 26, No 2.
– “Where Passion Becomes Sound” and “Das Lied Einer Mutter” published in PP/FF: An Anthology, Starcherone Books (2006).
– “This Innocent Arrangement” and “A Tarantella of White & Wind” published in The Florida Review: Vol 31, No 1.
– “Instruments to Accompany the Moon,” “Terrified by the Presence of Clowns,” “A Billboard Plastered with Hands,” “Snow Globes & Theories of Breakage” published in Whiskey Island Magazine: No 50.
– “The Snow’s Repertoire,” “What This Fog Would Have Us Believe,” “What the Sky Would like to Claim,” “Ruminations on a Sky Empty of Gulls,” and “Music out of a Fervent Wind” published in theKerf: Fall 2006.
– “Assaying the Sky” and “A Guileless Moon, Whispering” published in Eclipse: Vol 17.
– “Farther Than Music” and “A Body in Motion Can’t Ignore Time” published in Hotel Amerika: Vol 5, No 1.
– “A Couple Flirts at a Public Masters’ Violin Lesson” (Pushcart nomination) and “An Ode in Someone Else’s Voice” published in Third Coast: Fall 2006.
– “The Sky Might as well Be a Priest” published in The Journal: Vol 30, No 2.
– “A Kind of Restoration” published in Virginia Quarterly Review: Vol 83, No 1.

2005
– “Music Left by Another” published in The Literary Review: Vol 48, No 3.
– “A Cargo That Costs All We Have” and “Overcast Parking Lot Salsa” published in American Literary Review: Vol 16, No 1.
– “Fish and Sin” published in Prairie Schooner: Vol 79, No 2.
– “The Heart Treads Water and Hums” published in Flyway: Vol 9, No 1.
– “Confession off the Lake,” “In a Diner in Franklin, Pennsylvania” and “The Amnesic Hysteria of the Sails” published in Along the Lake: Contemporary Writing from Erie, PA.
– “The Burning Wheel Put Out by Its Own Turning” published in Willow Springs: No 56.
– “The Only Sober Lover” published in Alaska Quarterly Review: Vol 22, Nos 3 & 4.
– “Confession off the Lake” and “In a Diner in Franklin, Pennsylvania” published in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (anthology).
– “A Sad Man Makes of the Moon an Absolution” published in Third Coast: Fall 2005.
– Review of Philip Terman’s Book of the Unbroken Days published in Mid-American Review: Vol 26, No 1.
– “To Sanctify the Flesh” published in Artful Dodge: Nos 46/47.

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