Poems
AN APPALACHIAN WOMAN'S GUIDE TO BEER DRINKING, Vox Populi Sept. 28, 2022
TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, Vox Populi Sept. 7, 2022
TO SAVE A LIFE, New Ohio Review/Moveable Contest 2022
THAT PLUS FIFTY CENTS, MacQueen''s Quinterly, Issue 14
BAD COMPANY, MacQueen''s Quinterly, Summer Issue 14
VERNAL EQUINOX, New Ohio Review, Volume 3
ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, HELLA BARBIE, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Winter 2021
AFTER THE FIRE, Thimble Magazine, Winter 2021, Volume #3
BECAUSE AUTUMN ALWAYS CLOTHESLINES ME, POWER OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN, ONE ART, November 16, 2021
CONFLAGRATION, Vox Populi, November 12, 2021
THAT SPOT WHERE RACCOON CREEK MEETS BRUSH FORK, Vox Populi, October 18, 2021
SERVING, World Literature Today, October 7, 2021
HEARTLAND HOSPICE, Vox Populi, September 27, 2021
LAST NIGHT THE CHIME OF TREE FROGS, Vov Populi, August 16, 2021
THE WHOLE SHEBANG UP FOR DEBATE, Rattle, August 4, 2021
RARE BIRDS, One, August 2, 2021
BETHAL RIDGE CEMETERY, Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets) July 20, 2021
THE DAY I LEARN HER DIAGNOSIS, Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets) July 20, 2021
THE WEEDS IN THIS GARDEN, Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets) July 20, 2021
BONE THIN, BECAUSE COAL, TENNESSEE HOMELAND, HARD TRUTH, THE SOFTENING, ONE ART, July 16, 2021
PLANTING BY THE SIGNS, Vox Populi, July 5, 2021
REMIX: FOR MY PEOPLE, PBS American Portrait Storytelling Project, Jan.18, 2021, (last two lines) collaborative poem
BY ALL INDICATIONS I The NY Times, Nov. 26, 2020
LEFTOVERS I Poetry X Hungar, November 11, 2020
NIGHT MOVES I Verse Daily, Oct 30, 2020
HANK WILLIAMS' LAST RIDE I Still: The Journal, #34: Fall, 2020
THE DAY I LEARN HER DIAGNOSIS I Still: The Journal, #34: Fall, 2020
HOLD FAST I Still: The Journal, #34: Fall, 2020
BOILERMAKER I Writers Resist I Issue 116: 06 August 2020
I COME FROM A PLACE SO DEEP INSIDE AMERICA IT CAN'T BE SEEN I Verse Daily, July 1,2020
BETHAL RIDGE CEMETERY I Stirring Literary Journal, Volume 22, Spring 2020
THE TROUBLE WITH APPLES I Heartwood, Spring 2020
WASH YOUR HANDS CHILD I Infection House, Spring 2020
TRIGGER WARNING I Sheila-Na-Gig online, Volume 4.3, Spring 2020
GEAUX JEAUX I Athens News, Jan 2, 2020
BADASSES I Sheila-Na-Gig online, Volume 3.2, Winter 2018
THE WEEDS IN THIS GARDEN I Still: The Journal, Fall 2018
WEDDING DRESS I Looking at Appalachia I Call and Response, Fall 2018
BASEMENT I Rise Up Review, Summer 2018
ILLUMINATION I Rise Up Review, Winter 2018
HOOPER RIDGE GIRL I Rascal, Issue 01, 2017
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW MINE, ONCE REMOVED I Still :The Journal, volume 24, Summer 2017
OH YOU WOMAN OF APPALACHIA I The American Journal of Poetry, volume 3, 2017
BUZZ WHITEDOG ITo Unsnare Time's Warp, Anthology, Mainstreet Rag, November 1, 2016
THE THING ABOUT YOUR DAD I Gyroscope Review, The Honor Issue, 16/4, pg.18, 2016
MIDDLE EAST VETERAN'S WIFE I Gyroscope Review, The Honor Issue, 16/4, pg.32, 2016
A MIDDLE EAST VET'S MOM ATTENDS THE PARADE I Kudzu, 2016
#PHILANDOCASTILE I The New Verse News, July 08, 2016
SPLINTERED I Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue #17, pg.17, 2016
TEN O'CLOCK THE DAY ALREADY THREATENING I Gyroscope Review, pg.20, 2016
EVER SINCE COUSIN KAY GOT THE CANCER I Red Earth Review, pg.39, 2016
A LETTER TO JANI LARSON ON THE MATTER OF SGT. BERGDAHL I Rattle, June 2014
I KNEW BAD NEWS HAD COME I A Narrow Fellow Literary Journal, April 2014
AFTER THE FARM THE APARTMENT ON HOPE DRIVE I Still :The Journal, volume 9, Winter 2012
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