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Published Poetry         Forthcoming Poetry

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Published Poetry:

• Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi – The Dewdrop, July 2026
• Three poems: Hearing Horace Silver on the Blacksburg Golf Course, Indolence, and Mama Nellie’s Language of Love – Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature, Vol. 1, Ed. 10, May 2026
• Mr. B’s Kudzu Blues – As the Crow Flies: an Open-Access Expansion of Appalachian Journal, March 2026
• So Much Depends on a Stone Wall – As the Crow Flies: an Open-Access Expansion of Appalachian Journal, March 2026
• Wagging Shadows – The Raven’s Perch, February 2026
• Selling the Woods – The Raven’s Perch, February 2026
• Fighting the Chill with a Mandolin Pill – The Raven’s Perch, February 2026
• Two Poems: Bats at Dusk & Under the Oaks at Pisgah Inn – Soul Forte: A Journal for Spiritual Writing, Issue 17, January 2026
• Let Us Now Praise Asheville Aquarii – Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2025
• Holy the Firm – Amethyst Review: New Writing Engaging with the Sacred, December 2025
• Just Another Cold War Climb up Tater Hill – Salvation South, November 2025
• Unswept – The Raven’s Perch, October 2025
• Goalless – The Raven’s Perch, October 2025
• Watery Dust – The Raven’s Perch, October 2025
• Watching a Titmouse Part the Red Sea in the Birdbath – Sheila-Na-Gig, Vol. 10 No.1, Fall 2025
• Two Poems: Hurricane Helene Romps in the Woods Around our House (Your Caller Tonight is Helene & Prepositional Prayer) – Appalachian Journal, Vol. 52, No. 4, Summer 2025
• When a Tulip Poplar Sends a “Friend” Request, 3rd Wednesday, July 2025
• Miles Davis in the Valley of the Cross, Jerry Jazz Musician,  July 2025 (scroll down for poem)
• Feelin’ the Cicada Spirit , Jerry Jazz Musician, June 2025 (scroll down for poem)
• 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
• 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

Haiku:

• Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal, October 2025 (my haiku is the fourth from the end)

Forthcoming Poetry:

• A Passion Butterfly Embodies the Muse at Folly Beach – The Bluebird Word  (forthcoming in August 2026)
• Testing the Map – Soul Forte: A Journal for Spiritual Writing (forthcoming in late 2026)
• Sundays with Joni (forthcoming in Visiting Joni: Poems and Short Prose Inspired by the Life and Work of Joni Mitchell, edited by Debra Marquart, Alan Davis, and Thom Tammaro).
• 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)

Reprinted poems:

• Two Poems: Hurricane Helene Romps in the Woods Around our House (Your Caller Tonight is Helene & Prepositional Prayer) – in Had I a Dove: Appalachian Poets on the Helene Floods, edited by Hilda Downer. Redhawk Publications, 2025.

 

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