Poems

This is a small selection of POETRY which appears online. CNF and Fiction appear below. Please click to read. Scroll to the bottom for a POETRY VIDEO!

• “Love Sonnet (Broken into By America) in the First Year of Our Marriage” Verse Daily (2021)
• “My Wife and I Role-Play the New Poem of the Honeymoon” Trailer Park Quarterly (2019)
• “In Which I Throw a Soda at a Rich Fuck from Charleston and Miss” & “My Father Sings a Gun Song in 1994” Diode Poetry Journal (2019)
• “We Do Nothing After a Mass Shooting in Kalamazoo” Matter (2019)
• “A Local ‘Alcoholic’ Breaks Out an Acoustic at His Last AA Meeting” Juke Joint Magazine (2019)
• “My Wife Gets Groped at a South Carolina Dive Bar” Blue Lake Review (2018)
• “New Orleans Dancer Wrecks the Border Between Florida and Louisiana” After Happy Hour Review (2018)
• “My Heart Is a Time Machine” & “My Sister Sings Reba at Forty-Three” Aquifer: Florida Review Online (2017)
• “I Won’t Be Able To Say This When I’m Dead” Painted Bride Quarterly (2016)
• “Dear Trevor from Fort Lauderdale” Minnesota Review (2016)
• “Consider the Ocean” The Missing Slate (2015)
• “Up Against It” One Throne Magazine (2015)
• “Cryin’ Bryan” Ninth Letter (2015)
• “Partisan War Party for Mahalia Jackson” Thrush Poetry Journal (2015)
• “The Search Party’s Prayer” Superstition Review (2015)
• “O Hospital Holy” The Nervous Breakdown (2015)
• “Labor Day” Cream City Review (2014)
• “Watching How with Long Hair I Am Accepted by the Nevada Four” TriQuarterly (2014)
• “This Being a Man” Beloit Poetry Journal (2012)
• “To Myself as a Statue in Central Park” Rattle (2012)
• “Because the Body Is Made of Water” Verse Daily (2009)

This is a small selection of NONFICTION and FICTION which appears online. Please click to read.

• “Twenty Dollars Fake American, A Foreign Drama” Panorama (2023)
• “Follow the Body or Die” The Journal (2023)
• “The Science of American Sadness (A Case Study)” Great Lakes Review (2022)
• “No One Survives the Plane Crash” Atticus Review (2018)
• “This Video Kid, Too, Will Die” Euphony (Page 51) (2019)
• “Reading James Baldwin” S For Sentence dot com (2018)
• “Reading Hunter S. Thompson” S For Sentence dot com (2017)
• “The People We Were and Chris Cornell Are Dead” Superstition Review (2017)
• “We Were Waiting for Big Polly to Bring Us Our Cocaine” Ghost Parachute (2017)
• “Why I Try to Teach My Creative Writing Courses Like a Good Rock and Roll Show” Black Fox Literary Magazine (2017)
• “A Tattoo of a Red Apple on His Neck” Ghost Parachute (2017)
• “The Poem of Anger: Amiri Baraka, Tory Dent, and Adrian C. Louis” Cream City Review (2016)