Poetry & Essays

"Ars Poetica, 1979" |
"Ars Poetica, 2019" | "Mayfly"

Virginia Quarterly Review | Summer 2021

"American Ouroboros"

Night Heron Barks | Summer 2020

"Inherited Divide"

Zocalo Public Square | August 2020

"American Conjunctions"

On the Seawall | Winter 2019

"Logical Disjunction"

Tin House | Spring 2019

"Etymology"

www.poets.org poem-a-day | 2019

"Black Ecstatic Ode"

Michigan Quarterly Review &
Lithub | Summer 2019

"Temptation of the Composer"

Academy of American Poets | 2017

"Descent of the Composer"

www.poets.org poem-a-day | 2016

"Confessions from Here

www.poets.org poem-a-day | 2016

Sexton Texts on Independence Day” | “Sexton Texts During Polar Vortex”

Four Way Review | 2015

Hero(i)n” | “Prelude”

Muzzle | 2014

Narcissus Tweets

The Baffler | 2014

Swindle

Missouri Review | 2014

The Cost of The Floss

Michigan Quarterly Review | 2014

"The Cross or The Pill

Michigan Quarterly Review 

Meeting Wittgenstein at The Playscape

Michigan Quarterly Review | 2014

Animalia Repeating

Michigan Quarterly Review | 2014

The Case of the Disaporic Haints

Michigan Quarterly Review | 2014

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