Poems

2024

Southern Humanities Review, 57.3, “Blank Pages in the Short Book of Hunger”
Atlanta Review, 31.1, “Regarding Sappho’s Fragments”
North American Review, 309.1, “Prayer for Charles Simic”

2023

Inquisitive Eater, “Regarding Bourdain on Naxos”
Birdcoat Quarterly, #13, “Regarding the Origins of Tragedy,” and “Regarding Lastingness (and Last Meals)”
Kitchen Work, #9, “Pomodori al Forno,” and “Regarding Failures in the Kitchen”

2022

Gravy, #85, “Let’s Just Be Hogs: A Cento”
Gastronomica, 22.2, “Miracle in a Time of Dregs”
Able Muse, #29, “Diminishing Sestina”
North American Review, 307.1, “Grits (and Love and Happiness)”

2021

Southern Humanities Review, 54.4, “After the Last Supper“
North American Review, 306.2, “Hymn to Fennel (Máratho)”
Mid-American Review, 40.2, “Meditation at Waffle House”
Cumberland River Review, 10.2, “Prodigal”
Permafrost, 42.2, “Reckoning”

2020

[PANK] 15.1, “Omophagia”
White Oak Kitchen, Prize in Southern Poetry, “Japanese Maple”
North American Review, 305.1, “Prayer to Garlic”
Cumberland River Review, 9.1, “Mushrooms in a Tennessee Graveyard”
Tahoma Literary Review, #17, “Renunciation”

2019

Best New Poets 2018, “High on the Hog”
F(r)iction, Poetry Contest Winner, “First Food”
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 6.1, “Sparagmos “, “Jesus as a Jaded Lover”
Valparaiso Poetry Review, 20.2, Spring/Summer 2019: “Rapture”
Green Briar Review, 7.1, Three Poems
The Ekphrastic Review, “Varieties of Communion”

2018

Nashville Review, #27, “Saying Grace in a Time of Too Much (Elegy for a Future Loss)”
Midwestern Gothic, “Last Shift at the Purple Turtle”
MUSE/A, #7, Three Poems
Letters Journal, #6, “Saying Grace in a Time of Drought”
Spoon River Poetry Review, 42.2, “Whenever You Eat This,” “Bethesda”

2017

Blue River, “Travel Notes: Mykonos”
Miramar, “An Oil Lamp for James Agee”

2016

Profane, “Elegy for Barbecue”
San Pedro River Review, “American Palimpsest”
Permafrost, “Jasmine Sends this Message to the Cypress Tree”

2015

The Poet’s Billow, Pangaea Prize, “Bon Vivants Hereafter”