Poet. Memoirist. Novelist. Editor.
newer poems
"'My Country 'Tis of Thee' (arranged for Brazen Bull)" from Terrain.org, Letter to America, Spring 2019
"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" from Poetry Northwest, Spring 2018
"America Hepatomancy" from Tin House, Fall 2017, republished on poets.org
excerpt from "America the Beautiful: Thriftstore," which Sebastian Suarez-Solis used as program notes for String Quartet 1, Summer 2022
videos of readings
Alaska Quarterly Review benefit reading, with Nicky Beer and Mary Peelen:
Sunday, April 2021
Crowdcast reading for Skylight Books, L.A., with Lory Bedikian, Brittany Ackerman,
and Kristen Millares Young: July 2020
Sneak-peek reading, Book People of Moscow: Spring 2015
from Or What We'll Call Desire
"Matroyshka as Madness" from Copper Nickel, Spring 2016, republished on Verse Daily
"Ofelia Has Not Seen Even One of the Seven Wonders of the World, and People Keep Making New Lists" winner of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize
from The Wise and Foolish Builders
"Transcontinental" from Willow Springs
"Winchester .351 High-Power Self-Loading Rifle" from Redux,
originally published in 32 Poems
from Mortal Geography