Poems

Forthcoming

• Able Muse, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, etc.

2021

• 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”