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Publications
 

Poetry Collection

 

CavanKerry Press, April 2027 Release

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Individual Poems - Forthcoming​​

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Passport, Tar River Poetry

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On Leaving Conway Springs, I-70 Review

 

At Dawn, an Omen Sky Swooped, North American Review​
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Individual Poems - Published​​

 

The Odds Are Against You and Me, ​​Prime Number Magazine, Issue 293, Sept-Dec 2026

 

When, for the Last Time, Mom, I Drove You, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2026

 

Of Winter and Fire, Poetry in Plain Sight, February 2026

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Christian County, 1962, Oberon Poetry, 2025

 

Armageddon 3 AM: On My Pillow's Cratered Plain, Bacopa Literary Review, 2025

 

Petroglyphs, Cumberland River Review, Issue 14.4, October 2025

 

Is It the Wind, Cider Press Review, August 2025

 

Grain, Southern Poetry Review, Issue 63:1, 2025

 

A Quarter North, The Lascaux Review, July 2025

 

Origin Story, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025 (U.K.)

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​January, Cider Press Review, February 2025

 

Morning Notes, Last Day of August and It's Okay, Dad, SWING, Fall/Winter 2024

 

Storm, Early January, North American Review, Vol. 309, No. 2, Fall 2024

 

Out My Office Window, the Rustle of Rain, Cider Press Review, Vol. 26.4, October 2024

 

Outbound, Solstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2024

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Take It, The Lascaux Review, August 2024

 

Elegy at Ebbtide and A Quarter North, Southern Poetry Review, Issue 62:1, 2024

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Anna Belle, 1869-1919 and Childhood, San Pedro River Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 2024

 

Threading Eons, Late July, Poetry in Plain Sight, July 2024

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Origin Story, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2024

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The Ballast of Old Photos, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume X, 2024

 

Ghost Poker, Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, Issue 3, Spring 2024

 

On the Way Back to Town, South Dakota Review, Volume 58, Number 2, 2024

 

Visiting My Son in the 14th Year of His Death, Pedestal Magazine, Issue 93, March 2024

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Instructions for Writing to My Son on The Tenth Anniversary of His Death, Harpur Palate, 
    Issue 22.2, Fall/Winter 2024

 

The Dark in Which I've Lately Dwelt, Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2023

 

Heimat, The MacGuffin, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, Fall 2023

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Of Winter and Fire, Four Way Review, Issue 28, Fall 2023

 

Mowing, Terrain.org, November 2023

 

Winter Predawn Rites, Ibbetson Street, Issue 53, Summer 2023

 

Early Spring, Cloudbank, Issue 17, 2023

 

This Theft of Water and Dust, of Stars, Cider Press Review, Volume 25.2, June 2023 

 

Today We Hauled Your Toys from the Attic, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 239, May-Aug 2023

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Argentina, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. IX, 2023

 

The Way It Is Here, Barrow Street, Winter 2022-23

 

The Squatter, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 233, Jan-Apr 2023

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Still Quitting Kansas, ASP Bulletin, Issue 5, January 2023

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Walking at Dusk, Chautauqua, Issue 20.1, Winter 2022-23

 

If I Get Alzheimer's: Instructions for My Wife, South 85 Journal, Winter 2022

 

The Graves You Refuse to Fill, Puerto del Sol, Issue 57.2, Fall/Winter 2022

 

The Summer We Left, American Literary Review, Fall 2022

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Toward the End of March, The Lascaux Review, October 2022

 

At the Missouri Pacific Depot, Where, in 1931, You Holed Up for Three Days and Drank,
    Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2022

 

On the Medicine River, River Styx, Issue 105/106, Fall 2022

 

How Time Works on the Southern Plains, The Lascaux Review, September 2022

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Trek, San Pedro River Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2022

 

As I Remember It, Mom, Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2022

 

When I Noticed, at Last, The Baltimore Review, Spring 2022

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Remember, The Journal, Vol. 45.2, Spring 2022

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Sundown Cigar, Carve Magazine, Spring 2022

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Why I Flinch at the Thought of Daylight Squandered, North Carolina Literary Review Online, 

     Winter 2022

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You've Turned into My Backyard Table, Daddy, Sugar House Review, No. 23, Winter 2021

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Slags of Cloud, a Cold Wind and Night After Night, the Flicker of TVs from Neighbors'
      Windows, Crab Creek Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, 2021

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The Art of Saving, Chautauqua, Issue 19.1, 2021

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4 AM, at the Bay Window We Never Had, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VII, Fall 2021

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The Fire God, The New York Quarterly, Issue 67.3, October 2021

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After Reading Charles Wright, Terrain.org, October 2021

 

Night Walk, Midwest Review, Issue 9, 2021

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Upon Learning of Your Death, I Peer into the Wrong End of a Telescope, San Pedro River Review, 
      Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2021

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If I Could Trace Again the Honed, Flat-End Blade, Solstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2021

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Twister Dream and Tare Weight, Ibbetson Street, Issue 49, Summer 2021

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Prayer from a 1952 Chevy Suburban, Cider Press Review, Vol. 23, Issue 2, June 2021

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My Massage Therapist Says She Hears Trains Inside Me, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VI, 2021

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The Only Holy, Bellingham Review, Issue 82, Spring 2021

 

The Winter of Your Flu and Sundown at Huntington, Arts & Letters, Issue 42, Spring 2021
 

Every Day, I Think of Those Years, Five Points, Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 2020

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Waty Watson, Railroad Engineer, Bridport Prize Anthology (U.K.) , 2020

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June, 1969, Vietnam War Poetry, August 2020

 

Last Steam Locomotive, Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2020
 

Driving, Chautauqua, Issue 17, 2020

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We Were Seventeen, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. V, 2020

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Cotton Rats, Southword (Ireland), March 2020

 

Knife and Salt, New Ohio Review, Issue 27, Spring 2020

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Afternoon on Slate Creek, Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2019

 

While Dreaming of Our Old House, I Speak to My Wife, The Florida Review, Vol. 43, Number 1, 2019

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Fall Fest Parade, Some Years Before My Mother's Death, Strokestown Poetry Anthology (Ireland),
      2019

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At the Rainbach and In Vienna's Stadtpark, Arts & Letters, Issue 38, Spring 2019

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Terry: 1950 - 1970, The New Guard, Vol. VII, 2018

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Auguri, DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018

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Quitting Kansas, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Fifteenth Annual Issue, 2017

 

Aurora Borealis, Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2017

 

Somewhere South of Coldwater, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2017

 

Dr. Lilly’s Clowns and Detox, Kakalak 2016, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

 

On Nights Like This, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Vol 15: 2016

 

Gasoline and Liquor, Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2016

 

Reclamation, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. I, 2016

 

My Mother, My Father, The Freshwater Review, Spring 2015, Vol. 19 and online
      at WinningWriters.com, April 2016

 

Nocturne, Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2015, Vol. 40.2

 

Oblivion, The Atlanta Review, Fall 2015 Poetry Issue, Vol. XXII, No. 1

 

Two West and a Half South, Comstock Review, Fall 2015

 

Autumn, Huntington Beach, Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015

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Who Looks for You, Kakalak 2015, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

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Of Light and Time, Kansas City Voices, September 2015, Vol. 13

 

Cold Night in March, Pooled Ink, Northern Colorado Writers, 2014

 

Baseball, Kakalak 2014, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

 

Half-Light, Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2013

 

On the Phone with Kansas, What Matters, Jacar Press, 2013

 

Requiem in Wide-Open Minor, Kakalak 2013, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.

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Prose

Cold War Prairie, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring 2021

 

Of Roller Skates, Hogs and My Father, South Dakota Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, Fall 2018

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Uncle John, HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 5, Summer 2018

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Showman's Pasture, DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018

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Last Haircut with Fred Owens, Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015

 

 

Awards

 

First Prize, Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry, 2026

 

Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2026

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Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, 2025

 

Finalist, Wandering Aengus Book Award, 2025

 

Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2024

 

​Finalist, 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, 2024

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Short List, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2024

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Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2024

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Third Prize, Narrative Poetry Contest, Naugatuck River Review, 2024

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Editors' Pick, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2024

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Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2024

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Finalist, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Poetry, 2024

 

Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2023

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Finalist, John Ridland Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2023

 

1st Place, Live Canon International Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2023

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Finalist, The Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry, I-70 Review, 2023

 

1st Runner-Up, Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry, South 85 Journal, 2022

 

Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2022

 

1st Prize in Poetry, Porter Fleming Literary Competition, 2021

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Finalist, Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry, New Letters, 2021

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Finalist, Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, 2021

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Editors' Pick, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2021

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Finalist, James Applewhite Poetry Prize, North Carolina Literary Review, 2021

 

Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2021

 

2nd Place, International Poetry Contest, River Styx, 2020

 

Long List, National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society (U.K.), 2020

 

Highly Commended, Bridport Prize for Poetry (U.K.), 2020

 

2nd Place, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2020

 

Finalist, NORward Prize for Poetry, New Ohio Review, 2020

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Finalist, Great Midwest Poetry Contest, Midwest Review, 2020

 

Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2020

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Short List, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2019/20

 

Finalist, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2019 

 

Finalist, Rumi Prize for Poetry, Arts & Letters, 2018

 

Commendation, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2017/18

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Finalist, Nonfiction Award, American Literary Review, 2017

 

Finalist, Knightville Poetry Contest, The New Guard, 2017

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Honorable Mention, Oberon Poetry Prize, 2017

 

Long List, Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Prize (U.K.)

 

International Merit Award, The Atlanta Review, 2017

 

Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2017

 

Long List, Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2017

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Finalist, Poet Laureate Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2017

 

Finalist, Dana Award in Poetry, 2016

 

Honorable Mention, Kakalak Poetry Prize, 2016

 

International Publication Prize, The Atlanta Review, 2015 and 2016

 

Finalist, Dogwood Literary Prize, 2016

 

Honorable Mention, 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

 

Honorable Mention, 6th Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest, 2015

 

1st Runner Up, Editors’ Prize, Spoon River Poetry Review, 2015

 

1st Place, Whispering Prairie Press Poetry Prize, 2015

 

2nd Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, Comstock Review, 2015

 

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