Thrilled to have selections of my manuscript, Glimpses of the Iliad, debut in New Verse Review!
“Scylla Names Her Dogs” in New Verse Review‘s cool and spooky Halloween mini-issue. With thanks to my student, SW, who, after viewing this 4th century BCE Scylla figurine in mythology class, asked “Do you think she named them?”
“A Calm Cassandra” is included in the new anthology A Folded History: Poems and Mythologies, edited by the wonderful Rachel Hadas, with poets such as A.E. Stallings, David Baker, and more!
“Prayer for the Fish in the Pediatric ER Waiting Room” in Prairie Schooner
“Another Serenade for Rhina” and “The Late Twentieth Century Afternoon, a Grandmother” (an ekphrastic poem for my grandmother Barbara Hartsock, as pictured here) in Mezzo Cammin
A longer poem from the Indiana Jones series, “The Last Crusade,” at At Length!
“Precipitous,” from Ann Arbor’s PoetTreeTown, posted on the AA Observer
My poem “Museums” won Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2025 National Poetry Month competition, and appears in their April issue, along with another, “There Is the Sea, and Who Can Drain It Dry?,” which was a finalist, and an interview on the poems. You can read the whole issue here.
“I’ve Told Myself to Stop Thinking of You as Golden But Then” in RHINO 2025.
“Watching Actors Born in the 21st Century Sit Down to Write Letters in Period Pieces” in Ekstasis
“Legend of the Bluebonnet” in Ecotone Issue 36
2024
“Breast Milk” featured on Poetry Daily
“Will” in Ekstasis
“Etiologies and Other Satisfactions” and “Thrones” in ONE ART
“Memory and Her Beautiful Hair” in Sheila-Na-Gig Online 9.1
“Tussive” in Issue 1.1 of New Verse Review
“A Calm Cassandra” in Classical Outlook
“Paragon” in Rattle‘s Poets Respond
“Magnificat” and “Xanthus” in Mezzo Cammin
“Prophets” and “What Killed the Boys They Loved When They Were Young” in Issue 16.3 of Literary Matters
“In Carrigaholt” in Birmingham Poetry Review 2024
“On the Probability of Christ’s Delight in Our Boys Occasionally Whacking People with Their Fronds During Palm Sunday Mass” in Image 120 (here’s the Image InStudio interview on the poem)
“Triolet on the Cigarette Burn Inside the Library Copy of The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil” in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
2023
“Negative” featured on Verse Daily
“everyday people always echo myth”: a conversation with a portfolio of poetry – curated by Megan Levad at Tupelo Quarterly
“They Took the Cruze Sign Down” in the Winter Issue of The Threepenny Review
“Hard to Imagine Life Without” and “The Freiberg Bächle” in Volume VII of Jesus the Imagination: The Household of Things
“Head of a Woman with the Horns of a Ram” in Plume
“Archaeology” in The New Criterion
“Psyche’s House” and “Christ Chooses the Rocks He’ll Use to Cross a River” in Dappled Things
“On a Trojan Soldier Once Protected by the River Scamander As It Was About to Fight Achilles” in the new issue of RHINO
“Earth Apples” in Oxford Poetry‘s spring
2023 issue, no. 95
“Download the App and We’ll Plant a Tree” featured
in Rattle‘s Poets Respond ~ watch a reading on Rattlecast 192
“The Observation Artist” in MER
Many thanks to the amazing Dunya Mikhail,
who translated four poems from Wolf Trees
into Arabic for the literary journal Aladib
2022
“Marriage Bed with Medical Devices” and “Needle in a Haystack” in the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal.
Easter Sunday 2022 | my poem “Easter,” from my first book Bed of Impatiens, was PoetryFoundation.org’s Poem of the Day
“When the world is drowning in Ovid”: “Covid’s Metamorphoses” included in Pangyrus‘ print anthology, Underlying Conditions. And, watch a reading on Pangyrus‘ YouTube channel.
“A diabetic learns her body’s mathematics”: “Glucose Tablets” in Iron Horse Literary Review
Happy Valentine’s Day | “Tree Wolf,” Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review
“Returned” and “Birchcrest Avenue” in Dunes Review 25.2
“Studies in Devotion” and “The Vagabonds Between Us” at Mezzo Cammin
“The Nipple Shield of Achilles” in The Kenyon Review; audio
“Grotto” and “Poem Titled Something Like ‘Windows'” in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment
2021
“The Vindicator” in Ecotone 30
“To the Iceman Ötzi” in THRUSH
“Negative” in The Threepenny Review
“To Dervla Murphy’s Mother, in a Time of Quarantine,” in the October issue of The New Criterion
“Trying,” in Nimrod’s special issue: Beginnings and Endings
“Appearances and Realities” in 32 Poems
all the wolf trees! : “Wolf Trees,” “Wolf Tree Beneath the Gown,” “Lying In,” “The Wolf Tree in Film,” and “Where the Wolf Tree Nurses” in Birmingham Poetry Review.
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“Breast Milk” in Poetry magazine.
“Flashes in All Directions,” “Elsa in the Maw,” and “The Mother’s Stomach, a Kind of Tree” in Trinity House Review.
“And It Came to Pass in Those Days” in Image
“Hawk on the Halo Cross,” “John Wayne Brings Wyatt Earp a Cup of Coffee,” and “Arrangement” in Dappled Things’ Candlemas Issue
“Eye Cup” and “When You Were Tracy and I Was Hepburn” (click to listen) in Able Muse
“A Paraklausithryon” in Pleiades
A new poem on a new creature, the coywolf, in Ecotone‘s spring 2018 issue
Excerpts from my translation-in-progress of Homer’s Iliad, at Exchanges Literary Journal (fall 2017)
From RHINO 2016 (purchase a copy here): “On the Heat of Upstate Travel in the Advancing Polar Air”
Two poems, “Crazy” and “Myrmidons,” from Arion
“The Sister Karamazov” from Michigan Quarterly Review‘s Spring 2015 Issue receives the 2015 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets from Michigan Quarterly Review.
Poem from the Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays sequence in DIAGRAM, (with a bonus recipe for whiskey cake)
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