Published Poetry Forthcoming Poetry
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)
- An Ode to the Black Bear Trapped in my Neighbor’s Car – (forthcoming in As the Crow Flies: an Open-Access Expansion of Appalachian Journal, Spring 2027)
- 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.
