Published Poetry Forthcoming Poetry
Published Poetry
- The River Has Many Faces – Tiny Seed Literary Journal , May 2025
- Touch-me-nots – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2025
- A Spider Answers the Critics – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2025
- Dew Aflame – Amethyst Review: New Writing Engaging with the Sacred, 2024
- Those Troubling Obscenities of Saxophones – San Antonio Review, Fall 2024, Vol. 7, Issue 1
- That Time I Held a Screech Owl – Braided Way: Faces & Voices of Spiritual Practice, November 2024
- Suburban Blue Ridge Blues – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 50, Nos. 3-4, 2023
- Congregants at Stony Fork – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 50, Nos. 3-4, 2023
- An Appalachian in-migrant tale of sorts – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 50, Nos. 3-4, 2023
- Six 21st Century Lectures on Wow –The Banyan Review, Fall 2023
- Surface Tension –The Banyan Review, Fall 2023
- The Cherry Orchard Ladders – The Banyan Review, Fall 2023
- Napping in the Hostas – The Banyan Review, Fall 2023
- Some Pounding Prayer – The Raven’s Perch, April 2023
- Pilgrimage on Hawksbill Mountain – The Raven’s Perch, April 2023
- U2 Over Tucson – The Raven’s Perch, April 2023
- Autumnal – Tiny Seed Literary Journal, 2022
- Trio – Jerry Jazz Musician: A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Spring 2022
- Coltrane and the Flower Moon – Jerry Jazz Musician, 2022
- Southern Gothic Shopping Spree – Heartwood, 2021 (see photo below)
- Spilling Robins Across the Sky – The Canary, 2020-21
- Background Radiation on the Arboretum Trail – Tiny Seed Literary Journal, 2019
- The Anthropocene Dweller Dreams of Rivers – Light Journal, Issue 12
- I Should Hope to Pray Like the Trees – Tiny Seed Literary Journal, 2019
- Asta Encounters the Divine in Big Laurel Creek – The Bark, 2019
- Brimful of Grace – Valley Voices, 2018
- Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues – The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 2018
Forthcoming Poetry
- Prepositional Prayer – Appalachian Journal (July 2025)
- Your Caller Tonight is Helene – Appalachian Journal (July 2025)
- Three poems: Radiculopathy, damn it, Creekside Halo, and Haibun: Electric Miles MRI Bad Luck Blues (Forthcoming in an anthology by Appalachian writers with disabilities edited by Kendra Winchester, University of Kentucky Press, Summer 2027)

Photo accompanying “Southern Gothic Shopping Spree”