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1-800-THE-LOST | American Poetry Journal | 2012 | 2011 American Poet Prize - Winner |
A Drink of Water | The Banyan Review | 2023 | |
A Glass of Absinthe | Anthology of New England Writers | 2005 | |
A Kenning | American Poetry Journal | 2005 | |
Aftercare | Raintown Review | 2021 | |
Afterlives | Pensive: A Global Journal... | 2020 | Featured in Verse Daily - 2024 |
Against Elegies | National Poetry Review | 2004 | |
Amber Alert | new south: Georgia St. Univ. Journal | 2013 | New South Writing Contest - Winner |
Another Inevitable Romance at Olduvai Gorge | Avatar Review | 2021 | |
Anthem | Harpur Palate | 2018 | |
Arcadia | Cider Press Review | 2008 | |
At the Grieving Parents Meeting | River Styx | 2012 | Rita Dove Poetry Award - Semi Finalist |
Aubade | DMQ Review | 2006 | |
Bad Apology | SWWIM | 2017 | Narrative Poetry Contest Semi Finalist; also featured in March 2020 #Tbt |
Balcony House | Tampa Review | 2023 | |
Before the Common Era | Quadrant | 2021 | |
Beginner's Mind | Williams College Archives | 1978 | From the book "Advantages of Believing" |
Bingo Night for Missing and Exploited Children | Beacon Press | 2020 | Blue Room Collective - "Grabbed Anthology" |
Calendar Plans | Relief | 2022 | |
Catharsis | Smartish Pace | 2012 | Erskine J. Poetry Prize - Finalist |
Ctrl+Z | Florida Review | 2021 | |
Cues | National Poetry Review | 2020 | |
Days Inn | Shenandoah | 2003 | |
Emperical God | Ruminate Magazine | 2015 | |
Ethos, Pathos, Logos | Azure | 2025 | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
For a Dying Child | International Human Rights Art Movement | 2024 | Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize - 2nd Place |
Full Disclosure | The Missouri Review | 2025 | |
Girl at Piano | Beauty/Truth: Ekphrastic Poetry | 2006 | |
House on Fire | New Formalist | 2008 | |
Inventory | Southern Poetry Review | 2022 | |
Invocation | Cider Press Review | 2021 | |
Invocation Before a Day of Teaching | Crab Orchard Review | 2024 | |
Is there a Final Exam? | Azure | 2025 | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
Learning the Scriptures | Naugatuck River Review | 2018 | |
Leaving the Mainland | American Poetry Journal | 2005 | |
Melville's Reader | Spoon River Poetry Review | 2008 | |
Morning in Three Movements | The Banyan Review | 2023 | |
Museum | Comstock Review | 2008 | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
Oaths, Curses, Blessings | Georgetown Review | 2008 | |
Ocracoke | Briar Cliff Review | 2016 | |
Odalisque | Comstock Review | 2006 | Muriel Craft Bailey Award - Finalist |
Ode for Amy | Smithsonian Arts&Sciences | 2019 | |
Ode for My Department Chair Who Left a Face Shield on My Desk | NCTE English Journal | 2021 | |
Ode for an Absent Student | Naugatuck River Review | 2020 | Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi Finalist |
Ode for an Ode on a Grecian Urn | Folio | 2019 | 2019 Folio Editor's Prize - Winner |
Ode to the Heart | Of Poets & Poetry, FSPA | 2020 | |
On Folding a Fitted Sheet | Harpur Palate | 2018 | |
On Forgetting Ash Wednesday | Iris Literary Journal | 2021 | |
On Recognizing Saints | National Poetry Review | 2005 | Annie Finch Prize - Winner |
On Rewinding | Emerson College Review | 1975 | Emerson Original Poetry Award - Winner |
Parousia | Tar River Poetry | 2016 | |
Plan B | Azure | 2025 | Lazuli Literary Group - First Place |
Pop Quiz | Sky Island Journal | 2024 | |
Portable Labyrinth | Aurorean | 2014 | |
Prometheus's Regret | Halcyone, Black Mountain Press | 2020 | |
Rate My Professor:
A Rebuttal | Sky Island Journal | 2023 | |
Sanriku | Willow Springs | 2006 | Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award - Winner |
Smiling at the Executioner | Sky Island Journal | 2020 | Pushcart Prize Nominee 2020; Best of the Net Nominee 2021 |
Snow Globe | Cider Press Review | 2008 | |
Sugaring | Naugatuck River Review | 2016 | Robert Frost Award - Finalist |
Synonym for Marriage | The Banyan Review | 2023 | |
Teaching the Tragedies | Southern Poetry Review | 2003 | |
The Arrangement | Beauty/Truth: Ekphrastic Poetry | 2012 | Robert Frost Award - First Runner Up |
The Bath | Naugatuck River Review | 2014 | Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi Finalist |
The Breakfast Piece | Drunken Boat | 2015 | |
The End of Knowing | The Criterion | 2021 | |
The Lame God | Spoon River Poetry Review | 2008 | |
The Peculiar Truth | Grain | 1985 | |
The Rape of Chryssipus | Spoon River Poetry Review | 2007 | Spoon River Editors' Prize - Winner |
The Rescue | Comstock Review | 2008 | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
The Retrieval | Comstock Review | 2008 | Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit |
The Shadow Maker | Sequestrum | 2022 | |
The Wisdom of the Cave | SWWIM | 2022 | |
Trigger Warning | Harpur Palate | 2018 | |
Urban Helicon | Cold Mountain Review | 2016 | |
War in Eurasia | Sequestrum | 2022 | |
Washday | Ekphrasis | 2006 | |
We leave the beaches for the tourists, mostly | Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art | 2019 | |
Where Winter Spends the Summer | SWWIM | 2019 | |
