Work

Poetry

“Something Softer”Southern Humanities Review (Spring 2021)

“My Sister”The Baltimore Review (Fall 2020)

“A Song for Cape Flattery” — San Pedro River Review (Vol. 12 No. 2 Fall 2020)

“We Had a Home in Appalachia”Cumberland River Review (Issue 9-3 Summer 2020)

“Before the Simple Storms of Living” — The Oklahoma Review (Issue 18.2 Spring 2020)

“Appalachia Adages”The Oklahoma Review (Issue 18.2 Spring 2020)

“Time to Remember an Old Friend”The Oklahoma Review (Issue 18.2 Spring 2020)

“Movement”The Shore (Issue 6 Summer 2020)

“The Word Missouri Means Those Who Dug Canoes (and Carried On)” — The Shore (Issue 6 Summer 2020)

“Amber”Gulf Stream (May 2020 Online Issue #25)

“I Walked Into a Rickety Old Bar on the West Virginia Line” — Gulf Stream (May 2020 Online Issue #25)

“Around the Fire” — Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry (2020, forthcoming)

“Calling from Montana” — The Journal (Volume 44.1 Winter 2020)

“Another Turnpike Takes the Past Away Again” — Colorado Review (Issue 47.2 Summer 2020)

“Prologue to Life on the Southern Plains” — Colorado Review (Issue 47.2 Summer 2020)

“Spring: Driving I-29” — phoebe (Issue 49.1 Winter 2020)

“On Hearing of Yellowstone’s Latest Swarm of Earthquakes” — Aquifer: The Florida Review Online (February 2020)

“Looking for Appalachia (Again)” — descant (Volume 58 2019)

“The Kind of Truth Motels Carry” — descant ( Volume 58 2019)

“A Montana Message” — Plainsongs (Summer 2019)

“Like Frost Flowers or Strawberry Spring” — Recenter Press Poetry Journal (Spring 2019)

“From Here” — Recenter Press Poetry Journal (Spring 2019)

“Driving Oklahoma Is Rarely Met with Much Excitement” — The Hopper (2019)

“The Bad News Is” — Virga (Spring 2019)

“The Final Forest or What the Olympic Peninsula Means to Me” — The Carolina Quarterly (Volume 68.2 Spring/Summer 2019)

“The Retelling” — The Carolina Quarterly (Volume 68.2 Spring/Summer 2019)

“Long-Gone” — The Carolina Quarterly (Volume 68.2 Spring/Summer 2019)

“A Poem for Lucie Brock-Broido” — Sonora Review (Issue 75 2019)

“I’m Only Asking” — Sonora Review (Issue 2019)

“The Farthest Idea to Have” — Switchback (March 2019)

“To My Future” — Small Orange (January 2019)

“I Sat in a Country Club Bar in North Miami Once” — Midway Journal (Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2019)

“I Believe” — Midway Journal (Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2019)

“Tallahassee” — Midway Journal (Vol. 13, Issue 1, January 2019)

“Prying Oklahoma from a Song” — Salamander (#47, December 2018)

“Wicker” — Stonecoast Review (Issue 9 Summer 2018)

“What Seems Like a Foggy Memory Could Be the Heart Trying to Remember” — Trampset (June 2018)

“Summer, Just South of Norris, Montana” — Alexandria Quarterly (Vol. 4 , Spring 2018)

“Sinking Stone” — Gravel (May 2018)

“The 3020 Bar, Summer” — Gravel (May 2018)

“Oklahoma City, 2011” — Watershed Review (Spring 2018)

“Long Ago and Not What It Seemed” — Watershed Review (Spring 2018)

“Ecotone” — Eastern Iowa Review (Issue 6 2018)

“Driving Back” — Eastern Iowa Review (Issue 6 2018) — 3rd place 2018 Christine Prose Poetry Award

“When I Placed an Old Aquarium Over the Hole of a Yellowjacket’s Nest” — The Pinch (Vol. 38 Issue 2, Fall 2018)

“Ghosts” — Connecticut River Review (2018)

“An Osprey PSA” — Pasque Petals (Vol. 90:3 Spring 2018)

“A South Dakota Kind of Way” — Pasque Petals (Vol. 90:3 Spring 2018)

“Memory Lane” — Pasque Petals (Vol. 90:3 Spring 2018)

“Home Base” — Lou Lit Review (Vol. 1 2018)

“Enamored” — Bird’s Thumb (Vol. 5 Issue 2, June 2018)

“Postcard from Montana” — Flying South (No. 4 2017)

“This Afternoon” — Flying South (No. 4 2017)

“Naming All the Sparrows” — The Tishman Review (Vol. 3 Issue 3 2017)

“Early October, West of Ennis, Montana” — The Swamp (Issue 3 2017)

“Deer”West Texas Literary Review (June 2017)

“Port Townsend” West Texas Literary Review (March 2017, Best of the Net nomination)

“Distance Has Hands” — Concho River Review (Vol 31 Num 1 Spring 2017)

“The Geography of Home” — Concho River Review (Vol 31 Num 1 Spring 2017)

“Olympic Nat. Park Lake Crescent Lodge Cloudy Sunset”Driftwood Press (Issue 4.1 January 2017)

“Front Royal, Virginia” — The Cossack Review (Fall 2016)

“Prairie Hill, Oklahoma” — Raleigh Review (Volume 6, No 2 Fall 2016)

“What Personal Heaven is He Hiding?” — Green Eggs & Hamlet (Spring 2016)

“Idaho” — Green Eggs & Hamlet (Spring 2016)

“Port Angeles, Washington”Ascent (Spring 2016)

“Zion”Barnstorm Journal (Spring 2016)

“Just South of the Bixby Canyon Bridge” — Timberline Review (No. 3 Spring 2016)

“Oh, Shenandoah” — Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review (Volume 4, Issue 1 Spring 2016)

“Tallahassee” — Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review (Volume 4, Issue 1 Spring 2016)

“The Mission Range” — Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review (Volume 4, Issue 1 Spring 2016)

“Cimarron Country, Oklahoma”Split Rock Review (2016 Issue #6)

“The Railroad Died Here” — Route 7 Review (Volume 4 2016 Issue)

“McNair’s Tire Shop” — Route 7 Review (Volume 4 2016 Issue)

“I Can’t Believe the Way the Road Is” — Pinyon Review (June 2016 Issue #9)

“Summer’s End” — Pinyon Review (June 2016 Issue #9)

“Reaching Kanab” — San Pedro River Review (Vol. 8 No. 1 2016)

“Our Windows are Dusty Photos” — Kentucky Review (January 2016)

“Moving West” — Kentucky Review (January 2016)

“Kansas, 1959” — FLARE: The Flagler Review (Vol. 25 Issue #2 Spring 2015)

“The Potomac” — The Meadow (Summer 2015)

“What He Knew” — Flyover Country Review (December 2014)

“Lake Crescent” — Marathon Literary Review (Fall 2014)

“Under What Boughs” — Blue Lake Review (August 2014)

“A Quiet Echo” — New Plains Review (January 2012)

“Every Blessed Day” — Mile Marker Review (Fall 2011)

Prose

“Climbing Old Rag Mountain” — The Sonder Review (Issue 10 Summer 2018)

“Something like a Season” — The Sonder Review (Issue 10 Summer 2018)

“Front Royal, Virginia, 1996” — Storm Cellar (Vol 6.2 2017)

“The Task of Naming Shadows: Front Royal, Virginia” — Reed Magazine (Issue 150, May 2017)

“Like a Riverbank”Hippocampus Magazine (December 2016)

“The Arkansas: A Thin Record”High Desert Journal (Issue 23, October 2016)

“Nebraska: Four Phases of the Oregon Trail”Quarterly West (Issue 87, February 2016)

“Fragments from the Plains”— Eastern Iowa Review (Issue 2, 2016)