Read Selected Poems Online
“For My Boy in the Garden with Variants of Uncertain Significance” – The Maine Review Environs Prize Second Place Finalist

“Vilomah” –– Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Finalist

“Late Spring Epiphany after the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit” and “Showering My Son” – The Adroit Journal
2024 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry

“5.5 Shiley Long” and “Showering My Son” – medmic: Conversations, Culture & Creativity from the Health Care Community (reprinted from Beloit Poetry Journal)

“For Charlie in His Wheelchair by the Evening Window” – SWWIM Every Day
(nominated for the Best Spiritual Literature anthology and the Nina Riggs Poetry Award from Cave Wall Press)

“Still Life with Milkweed” – Rust & Moth

“Weather Report” – Alaska Quarterly Review

“Bound for Glory” – Rattle: Ekphrastic Challenge Editor’s Choice

“Fig Tree” – Psaltery & Lyre

“Wrestling the Angel” – Psaltery & Lyre

“Doing the Math” – West Trestle Review

Listen to Interviews and Recordings of Poems
Interview with Jane Newkirk, poetry editor of medmic: conversations, culture & creativity from the healthcare community

“My Love Increase My Bewilderment” – West Trade Review

“Ghost Writer” – Tahoma Literary Review, SoundCloud

Read Selected Poems in Print
“Showering My Son” – Best New Poets 2023 from University of Virginia Press

“5.5 Shiley Long,” “Showering My Son” and “Just This Evening”– Beloit Poetry Journal

“Because I’m Sagittarius” – Poetry Northwest

“Watering the Houseplants During Covid,” “About the Mother of All Time and Children,”
and “This Is April” – december

“Ode to My Father with His Buck Knife” – Southern Poetry Review

“Sorrow Chaser” and “Periodic Syntax” – Nimrod International Journal: Body Language Issue

“Breakdown, It’s Alright” – Catamaran Literary Reader

“After Your Call” – San Pedro River Review

“Ode to the Beet” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and
“The Present Participle Gives Instructions on the Continuous Tense” – Connecticut River Review

“Wolf Moon” – Crab Creek Review, Poetry Prize Finalist

“Credence Clearwater Revival” – San Diego Poetry Annual, Honorable Mention Steve Kowit Prize 2020