POEMS ONLINE:
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters (2018): “The Mercenary’s Harp”
NightBlock (2017): “Hope, Despair, & Some Sense of Knowledge Courtesy of EurekaAlert! and ScienceDaily” and “The Soul”
fluland (2017): “Moonsong,” “The Future,” If I Were to Come Here,” “Apocalypse Now, Booby Trap,” “What Becomes Us,” and “Beyond It”
Hobart (2016): “Understand, I Wasn’t Always This Way”
Fried Chicken And Coffee (2016): “The Last Thanksgiving” (reprint from Tar River Poetry)
Rattle (2016): “Post-Op”
The Laurel Review (2015): “My Wife the Tornado” (online feature)
Cosmonaut’s Avenue (2015): “Kind of Like a Hospital, Nothing Like a Church”
War, Literature, & the Arts (2015): “Mutilations: Custer”
NightBlock (2014): “Shove’s OCD”, “Shove at the Supermarket”, & “Shove Takes a Bath But Can’t Turn Off the Faucet”
Punchnel’s (2013): “The Blind Spot in the Middle of My Vision” & “They Say”
Birdfeast (2013): “A Coyote Named Jeff” & “A Town with No Voices”
Santa Ana River Review (formerly CRATE) (2013): “I Was Afraid of Dying”
The Thing Itself (2013): “Break into Vanishing” & “To Sit in the Not Knowing”
Blue Mesa Review (2012): “The Future Is Brilliant in the Way It Rations Suffering”
DIAGRAM (2012): “Why So Many of My Heroes Are Outlaws from the 1930s”
Front Porch (2009): “The Latin Professor”
DM (2008): “Lubbock, Texas”
Why Are We In Iraq? (2007): “Semper Fi”
The Oklahoma Review (2006): “When He Knocks”
POEMS IN PRINT:
The Freshwater Review (2018): “Man-Bun Magic” and “Good News”
Poet Lore (2018): “Marital Art”
Smartish Pace (2016): “The Time Dad Killed a Rabid Skunk”
Rattle (2016): “Post-Op” (placed top 20 out of 15,000 in the 2015 poetry competition)
The Freshwater Review (2016): “Each Defeat a Mirror,” “I Am Nothing More Than My Experiences,” and “Where It All Began”
Barrow Street (2016): “Who’s to Say”
Tar River Poetry (2016): “The Beginning of Tomorrow Starts Now”
The Laurel Review (2015): “My Wife the Tornado”
The Freshwater Review (2015): “Finding Myself Outside of Bigfoot, Texas” (winner of the 2015 Rose Warner Poetry Prize, temp. available on their homepage)
Whiskey Island (2015): “The Edge of the Well”
Zone 3 (2015): “Hysterical” & “The Man Upstairs”
The Normal School (2014): “The Night’s Not Finished, But It’s Leaning against the Wall”
The Thing Itself (2014): “To Sit in the Not Knowing” & “Break into Vanishing”
Washington Square (2013): “The Abbreviated Mirror”
Tar River Poetry (2013): “Bull Snake”
Four Chambers (2013): “Wife-itude”
Writer’s Bloc (2013): “Long Division,” “You Said You Could Take Care of a Baby Elephant,” & “The Redheaded Stepchild”
Harpur Palate (2012): “The Morning after Our Last Trip”
The Minnesota Review (2012): “John Wayne, Buddy Holly, & The Lindsey Theater” Project MUSE
American Poetry Journal (2012): “Yes”
Southern Indiana Review (2012): “We’re Only Good at Making Things that Kill”
Yemassee (2012): “Varnish”
South Dakota Review (2011): “Elegy with the Rattle of a Dead Light Bulb” & “And the Knives”
Willow Springs (2011): “In a Goat Pasture Just outside of Cross Cut, Texas”
Tar River Poetry (2010): “The Last Thanksgiving”
North Texas Review (2009): “Spring Begins in Denton, Texas” (poem inside the linked PDF)
Sou’wester (2009): “Why Our Walls Are Angry”
Plain Spoke (2008): “The Way Francis Smiles” & “Resthaven”
Zygote in My Coffee (2007): “Ant Beds”
