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Poetry

Poetry

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. —Mary Oliver


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Prairie Schooner

Vol. 94, No. 3: Fall 2020

Poems: Just a Limp; I heard you muttered R.C.

Excerpt: the bone, exposed, / and the smell it makes / when sawed apart, smoking…

…sisters only—hover, listening / for the sound that means / she will recover.


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CV2

Vol. 42, No. 4: Spring 2020

Poems: A portrait of our bones; Scene with politicians

Excerpt: …we’ve forgotten or refused or failed / to set ourselves a limit.

…the sky is orange / with smoke and promises / of fire yet to come.


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Room

Issue 42.4, Winter 2020

Poems: admirari; spring-loaded

Excerpt: climbing one island to the next, leap- / frogging the distance, towing between / two points in the ocean…

because / that’s how some girls go missing, / isn’t it? Lack of attention to detail…


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WordWorks

Reconciliation Issue, Fall 2019

Poem: How Poets Dream

Excerpt: tossing / lines, fishing for something / holy…


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Canthius

issue 07, Fall 2019

Poem: retching dead fish

Excerpt: we sucked it dry, / the blood of this good place…


Grain Magazine

46.2 Sustenance issue, Winter 2019

Poem: Birds and Fish (iii)

Excerpt: kelp, / once edible, the whip-and-ribbon / giants, become poisonous plants…


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Volume 3.2, Winter 2018

Poems: Warning, The Road To Nelson

Excerpt: this is the first / sign that danger is coming: dry, / nothing will grow…

We stamp our feet / down to the river, tired, / elsewhere flooding its banks…


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No. 2-3, Fall 2018 / Winter 2019

Extra Credit

Excerpt: When a trust is breached, it doesn’t break or bleed, like a body…


Barzakh Magazine

Issue 10, Spring 2018

Poem: Site C

Excerpt: The season is ours— / it’s time for bodies / to breathe.


Eastern Iowa Review

Issue 6, 2018

Poems: Piñon Crackles, Nowhere But Here, Ghost Ranch And Beyond

Excerpt: …how you can miss, be homesick for, a place you’ve just discovered.


What People Are Saying

So many lines worked their way deep into my marrow. —Eanlai Cronin, Writer

Your poetry has heart… and teeth. —Cynthia Bruckman, Writer

We’re thrilled that your work is included! —Nicole Haldoupis, Editor, Grain Magazine

Seriously, this is such an amazing poem. —Claire Farley, Editor, Canthius

I really love [these] pieces… —Chila Woychik, Editor, Eastern Iowa Review

An astute observation of botanical anthropomorphism and nature in the shape of humans. —Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine