Links to poems

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Glass: A Journal of Poetry is running a great Poets Resist series of political poems. “Mulching the President” appeared there in October 2019.

My poem “The Skaters” was originally published in The Cincinnati Review in 2019, and is now available at the Academy of American Poets site.

“Summer Downpour on Campus” was featured in the American Life in Poetry series a few years ago.  I love this series, and I’m grateful to former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for including me.

“My Father’s Gun” and “Portrait of My Mother as the Rush Hour Traffic Report” have been featured on VerseDaily.

ONLINE JOURNALS

“Birds of the Late Roman Empire” and “Felis Sapiens” appeared in UCity Review in May 2020.

“Blaming Mercury” and “How Rome Was Founded in the Wilderness” appeared in On the Seawall in May 2020.

“In Winter I Make Myself Ready” appeared in Rogue Agent Issue #59 in 2020.

Gyroscope Review publishes in a cool PDF format that you can browse through. You’ll find my poems “Ghost of a Gun” and “Click if you’re not a robot” on pages 7 and 49 of their Winter 2020 issue.

SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) is a terrific organization that does a lot in their community and also publishes a poem a day by a woman-identifying author. Here’s my “For Once, Just Flowers,” which appeared in April 2019.

Literary Matters included two of my poems, “Skipping a Friend’s Barbecue Because the Invitation Said ‘Family Friendly'” and “Visiting My Mother” in their Winter 2019 issue.

“The Geese Are Very Tired” and “Larkin Days” appeared in A Poetry Congeries in 2019.

For almost twenty years– since graduate school– I’ve been writing and revising and rewriting a poem about Big Mary, a circus elephant who was hanged in Tennessee in 1916.  I think I finally finished that poem last year, and I’m grateful to Literary Matters for publishing “Big Mary: How to Hang An Elephant” in their Fall 2017 issue. Literary Matters also published two new poems, “Visiting My Mother” and “Skipping a Friend’s Barbecue Because the Invitation Said ‘Family Friendly,'” in their Winter 2019 issue.

Yellow Chair Review (a gorgeous journal that publishes in PDF, so readers can virtually flip through the pages) published my poem “In the Castle of H.H. Holmes” in their Oct. 2015 Horror Issue.  Fans of The Devil in the White City will like this one.

ONE, a journal by Jacar Press, has an interesting premise; writers submit one and only one poem at a time.  I’m very happy that they selected my “Letter Written on a Maple Wing” for their April 2015 issue.

Valparaiso Poetry Review included my poem “May Morning, Dachau” in their Fall/Winter 2015-15 issue.

The Fall 2014 issue of The Journal, a literary review I’ve admired for years, included my poem “Letter Written on a Boarding Pass.”   When they emailed me to accept the poem, the editor called it a “subversive sonnet.”  I can’t tell you how much that pleased me.

My first-ever (and only) prose poem, “The History Tour,” was published at The Citron Review.  While you’re there, you should also check out the flash essay “Spinning” by my friend and Alfred University colleague Susan Morehouse.  (The table of contents lists both of our pieces as micro-fiction, but that’s only a ruse.)

Burrow Press Review published two of my poems, “Action Comics #0” and “Walking to Roquefere to Buy Honey,” as one of their National Poetry Month features.  The first poem was written after seeing the mediocre movie Man of Steel; the second, while staying at La Muse Writers’ and Artists’ Retreat  in southern France.  This pretty much epitomizes the range of my inspirations.

Three poems are up at Tupelo Quarterly: “My Father’s Gun,” “Balthus, The Victim, 1946,” and “Honey Don’t.”

Lunch Ticket  featured three of the poems from my chapbook Anne Boleyn’s Sleeve as their December 2013 Amuse Bouche.  You can read the poems here.

One of my favorite online journals is Blackbird, which has published two of my poems, “Once” and “Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop.”

Another great online journal is Waccamaw.  Their Spring 2017 issue contains two of my poems, “In the Peaceable Kingdom” and “A Trick of the Light.”

A great online journal dedicated to formal poetry is Unsplendid, which included one of my poems (and a recording of me reading the poem) in their 2014 double issue on Women & Form.  You can read that poem, “Bounded in a Nutshell,” as well as the previously featured  “‘Winter comes to rule the varied year'” and  “The Housesitter’s Note.”