Elsewhere
Assignments come and go, but poetry has always been part of my writing life. It transports me to a different headspace—and keeps me grounded. I’m grateful to the editors and publications that have given these poems and book reviews a home.
POEMS
“A Ghost Visits His Birth Hospital” — Scarlet Leaf Review, July 2019
“A Quatern on Time” — Watershed Review
“Affliction” — Backchannels
“Agatha, My Dear” — Mason Street, October 2020
“And I Was Not Alone” (originally titled “Revelation”) — ImageOutWrite, 2018 edition
“Arbor” — Lake Affect, Volume 62, Fall 2023
“Crown Shyness” — Frozen Sea
“Fight or Flight” — Impossible Archetype
“Memory Potion” — The Finger, 2015 edition
“Mountain Sermon” — Superpresent (page 111)
“Mrs. Macdonald” — Steam Ticket (page 78)
“Peonies” — Stone Canoe, Winter 2024
“Piano Lesson” — Small Orange, January 2019
“Salvage” — Laurel Review, Issue 55.2, Fall 2023
“Self-Portrait from Unnamable Year” — Gulf Stream Magazine
“Toadstone Harvest Protocol” — Bloodroot (page 8)
“White American Foursquare” — BlazeVox, Spring 2019
“1987” — Ghost City Press
FEATURES
“Let Me Explain” — The Wild Umbrella | Interview with Jonathan Everitt
“The Little Room” — Passengers Journal Winter 2024 | Interview with Jonathan Everitt
BOOK REVIEWS
Little by Little, a Lyrical Life: Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta, Tupelo Quarterly
Two Graves, One Terrible Date: Site of Disappearance by Erin Malone, MicroLit Almanac
Chapter and Verse: Hereverent by Katie Manning, MicroLit Almanac
Poems of Planting—and Burial: Tamp by Denton Loving, MicroLit Almanac
A Penetrating Light: Valediction by Linda Parsons, MicroLit Almanac