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Blackbird
~ Three poems
Five on the Fifth
~ High Side (short story)
Escape Into Life
~ Four poems
~ How to Receive Bad News
~ How to Play Backgammon
~ I ♥ NY
~ Death Spends Halloween at the Country Bar
Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize
After the Pause
~ antithesis
Mezzo Cammin
~ Pierce & Brand: A Sideshow Diptych (heroic crown of sonnets)
~ The Sword Swallower Meets the Tattooed Lady
~ Unraveling
Split Lip
~ Crescent City Love Song
~ The Tattooed Lady Answers the Marks
Sundog Lit
~ Cowboy (The Tattooed Lady Window Shops)
Finalist for the 2013 Best of the Net Awards
Barely South Review
~ At the Corner of February
Poemeleon
~ To the Sword Swallower c/o Pierce & Brand’s World of Dangerous Wonders
Vinyl Poetry
~ How to Be the Sole Woman Working in a Tattoo Shop
~ How to Be a Soft Place to Land
Muzzle
~ How to Cook Alone
~ The Right Light Makes All the Difference
~ Sanctuary
~ Watching the Sword Swallower
“Watching the Sword Swallower” also appears in the Muzzle “Best of the First Year” print issue
The Collagist
~ The Sword Swallower’s Mother Speaks
Radius
~ Processional
Nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize
PANK
~ Hunting
~ Sawdust Glossolalia
Arsenic Lobster
~ For Franz Marc on the Occasion of His Thirty-Sixth Birthday
~ To the Cancer My Mother Does Not Have
Both poems also appear in the Arsenic Lobster 2011 print anthology
Foundling Review
~ Airport Elegy
The Orange Room Review
~ Blindsided
The Dead Animal Handbook
~ Swallow, Ducklings, Sugar Bowl
Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living
~ Anatomy of a Downward Spiral
~ Drift
~ Meditation
Tandem
~ The Sword Swallower’s First Time
~ Refrain
Yemassee
~ A Sudden Blow
Winner of the 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Prize
Southern Indiana Review
~ Kissing the Fire Eater
Midwestern Gothic
~ Migration (The Tattooed Lady Returns)
Iron Horse Literary Review
~ Still Life with Diner and Dog
Nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize, also appears in Best of IHLR anniversary issue
PANK
~ The Young Sword Swallower at Dinner
~ Illuminated (The Tattooed Lady Explains)
“Illuminated” Nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize
Affilia
~ Trauma
~ Prescription
