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​Poems

Anthologies

Best New Poets 2015: “Former Future King”​
Queen Mob’s Teahouse anthology: “Red Parachute”

Journals and Magazines

​2021
​The Massachusetts Review: “Appraisal,” Summer 2021
The Believer: “Named Storm,” Summer 2021
The Believer LOGGER: “Once I Understood My Place in the World,” March 2021

2019
New South: “After the Fact” and “The Growing Point,” Fall/Winter 2019
The Cortland Review: “Sad Human Voice,” July 2019
Cosmonauts Avenue: “Breakfast Scene” and “Miscarriage,” April 2019
The Southeast Review: “Matrescence” (finalist for the 2018 Gearhart Poetry Prize), Spring 2019
Washington Square Review: “Seed Head,” Spring 2019

2018
​Notre Dame Review: “After,” Summer/Fall 2018
The Sun: “The World’s Oldest Person,” August 2018
BOAAT: “To the Woman Who Chose to Believe Her Brother,” July/August 2018
Columbia Poetry Review: “Coping Mechanism,” Spring 2018
Harpur Palate: “Live Young” and “Living Will,” Spring 2018
Smartish Pace: “Expressway” (finalist for the 2017 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize), Spring 2018
Raleigh Review: “Onset,” Spring 2018
Poetry Northwest: “Small Data,” Winter/Spring 2018

2017
​Forklift, Ohio: “Forecast,” Fall 2017
Tupelo Quarterly: “Confluence,” “Nature Documentary,” and “Positive Thinking,” October 2017
​Bateau: “One Day My Jeans Will Be Vintage,” Fall 2017
The Arkansas International: “Incarnate,” Fall 2017 
The Pinch: “Damage Assessment” and “Anniversary,” Fall 2017 
​Bennington Review: “Fight-or-Flight Is an Imperfect Theory” and “Ancestral Home Tour,” Summer 2017
Sidereal Magazine: “Lullaby After Another Loss,” May 2017
​Matter: “Mad in America” and “Continuity of the System,” April 2017
Bodega: “I’m Having a Sally Field Moment,” April 2017 ​
Terrain.org: “Elegy in January,” March 2017
​Queen Mob’s Teahouse: “Meditation While Operating a Motor Vehicle,” “Regularly Scheduled Programming,” and “Fear Is a Belief System,” March 2017
​Heavy Feather Review: “Regime Change,” “Call to Action,” and “Coalition of the Unwilling,” February 2017
Reality Beach: “Love Note,” “The New Urgency,” “Outcome Unclear,” and “Plausible Rapture,” January 2017
Yalobusha Review: “Major Foreign Policy Speech,” January 2017 ​
Cider Press Review: “We Uncertain Animals,” January 2017 ​
​Glass: A Journal of Poetry: “The Point at Which the Laws of Physics Break Down,” January 2017

2016
​DIAGRAM: “Fast Catastrophe,” December 2016
​Fugue: “Against Adaptation,” Fall 2016
Prelude: “The Evidence,” Fall 2016
​Poetry City, USA: “So Long,” Fall 2016
Day One: “The Internet Won’t Let Me Forget My First Boyfriend,” October 19, 2016
Flag + Void: “Young People Today” and “On the Occasion of My Survival,” September 2016
Verse Daily: “The Possibility of Refusing All Else,” August 16, 2016
Permafrost: “Fundamentals of Home Defense,” August 2016 ​
Conduit: “Soft Target,” Summer 2016
The Collapsar: “Closing Argument” and “Proscenium Arch,” June 2016
Pittsburgh Poetry Review: “Typography of a Midwestern Suburb” and “While You Were Busy Lip-Syncing Power Ballads,” June 2016
Redivider: “Studies Have Shown,” Spring 2016
Sixth Finch: “Give,” May 2016
HOUND: “Prophet in the Age of Disbelief,” April 2016
Southern Humanities Review: “In the Surgical Theater,” Spring 2016
Crab Creek Review: “Origin Story,” Spring 2016
HOUSEGUEST: “Kingdom of Quartz” and “A Self-Contained Story,” March 2016
Witness: “The Possibility of Refusing All Else,” March 2016
Hermeneutic Chaos: “Calibrate,” March 2016 (nominated for Best of the Net) 
Pith: “The Survivalists,” February 2016
Prelude: “Home Front” and “Social Contract Theory,” February 2016
Vinyl Poetry: “Winter Storm Warning,” February 2016

2015
Lunch Ticket: “Pathology,” December 2015
The Awl: “Performing Revolution for a More Luminous World,” November 2015
Slice Magazine: “This Close and No Further” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and “A Circle Is Deceived by a Longing for Having,” Fall 2015
The Adroit Journal: “Apocryphal Memory of the Night We Met,” September 2015
Rogue Agent: “I Am My Careful Projections,” August 2015
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Field Guide to Disintegration and Other Methods of Decay,” August 2015
DIALOGIST: “Bruise,” June 2015
Lumen: “Domesticated,” June 2015
Front Porch Journal: “The Patient” and “History of the Present,” April 2015
Radar Poetry: “Museum of Snow Globes” and “Subdivision Idyll,” April 2015
Linebreak: “Initial Descent,” January 2015

2014
The Journal: “Response to a Polite Inquiry About How I’m Doing,” Summer 2014

2013
Cobalt Review: “Tracking,” Winter 2013
Bellevue Literary Review: “The Cave Painter,” Spring 2013

2012
Kin Poetry Journal: “Socialism with a Human Face,” “The Honeymoon,” and “Utopenec,” October 2012
burntdistrict: “Case History,” “Appointment with a Specialist,” “Aftermath,” and “In Spite of Everything,” Summer 2012

2010
The Collagist: “Outro” and “A Broken Home Stands upon a Fixed Point of Earth,” September 2010

2009 
Poet Lore: “Bombing at the Souk al-Ghazl,” Fall/Winter 2009
Coal Hill Review: “Six Days of Snow,” September 2009
Verse Daily: “Purgatory,” web monthly feature, August 2009
42opus: “Purgatory,” June 2009
The Briar Cliff Review: “Cuttings,” 2009 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

2007
Poetry East: “Centripetal Force,” “Mother of Loves,” and “Trompe l’Oeil,” Spring 2007
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