Publications (2021-2023)




2023

Chapbook:

A God You Believed In (Pinhole Poetry)

Poems:

#1(Beltway Poetry Quarterly)
…Is a Memory” (White Stag SPIRIT Anthology)
101” (Rollick Magazine)
7.7” (San Antonio Review)
“A Light Snow Through the Window” (The Field Guide Magazine)
A Poetry of Place(Vilas Avenue)
A Red Container(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
“A Sustained Sound of Longing” (Poetry Salzburg)
“After All” (Hello America Stereo Cassette)
“After the Zoo” (Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Aging / Dying(WordCity)
Alive” (SAND)
all my art (Alternate Route)
After Millvale Music Festival, 2021(Statement Magazine)
* “American Rust” (Skyway Journal)
An Ontological Argument for Necessary Being(A Thin Slice of Anxiety)
“Another Round for Entropy” (A Thin Slice of Anxiety)
August, 2020 (Five Months Quarantined)(BarBar Magazine)
Beer Pong in Your Basement(The Seventh Quarry)
“Bro” (Alternate Route)
Brothers(White Wall Review)
“Bump” (Ink Pantry)
Bundt Cake! (Sybil Journal)
“By the Pool in Cold June”(linked verse)
By the Power Vested in Me by the State of Sadness(Chronogram)
“Cannon Town”(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
“Car Wash” (Liennek Journal)
“Cashing Out” (Moss Trill)
“Cedarville” (The Gorko Gazette)
Celestial Egg(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Chain(Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly)
“Chesapeake Cookies” (Jimson Weed) 
Chicken Imitations (Vagabond City Lit)
“Childhood Backyard” (EAP Magazine)
Commonplace Coffee on a Sunday in July, 2021(San Antonio Review)
Dangling on a Ring of Saturn(Corvus Review)
“Day One” (BigCityLit)
December 12, 2017” (The Seventh Quarry)
Décor(Statement Magazine)
“Descendant” (TigerShark Magazine)
Deviled Eggs (SPANK the CARP)
“Dining” (Jimson Weed) 
“Dining at Wing Jawn”(linked verse)
“Dream With Bus Driver” (linked verse)
“Dynamic” (Ballast Journal)
Earth Puzzle(ArtVilla)
“Eden” (The Gorko Gazette)
Elegy (DoubleSpeak Magazine)
Exhaustion (Review Americana)
“Fade”(Roi Fainéant)
“Fault” (Fast Pop)
Flame Season (Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine)
For Exercise and Variety(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
“Forest Song” (ARZONO 2023 Annual)
“Forgotten Beach” (Bruiser Mag)
“Forty Years from Now, This Poem Will Make Sense (Disregard if Forty Years Have Passed)”(Lothlorien Poetry Journal)
“Framework” (Bindweed Magazine)
FWIW (The Waiting Room)
“Gold Hole” (Bindweed Magazine)
“Good World” (Ink Pantry)
Google Home Quarantine (Winamop)
Google You (Winamop)
Grade School Cafeteria(The Scop Magazine)
Graduation(BlazeVOX Journal)
Graph”  (Sweet Tree Review)
“Grays”(DREICH)
Having Won a Two-Day Trip to Hawaii(Winamop)
Hide and Seek(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
“Hot Air” (impspired)
Hot Shower in February(Avant[Appalachia])
“House Concert” (Fast Pop) 
House of Mirrors (Flush Left)
“How I Am Right Now” (Ink Sac)
“Howlers” (Ink Pantry)
“I Believe I Tend to Complicate” (In Parentheses)
“I Never Considered My Grandparents”(impspired)
“I Own a PS5 & Feel Empty Inside” (Stickman Review)
I Spend Myself” (DREICH)
I Want You to Think of Me All the Time (Tower Poetry Society)
“I Wait for the Gate to Open After Work, and Cicadas Sing All the While” (STIRRING)
“I want to channel a simple time” (ActiveMuse)
“I was going to throw away the water”(Unlikely Stories Mark V)
I Was Once a Plasma (Bond Street Review)
“In a State of Sin” (Obsessed with Pipework)
In Lieu of Help, Send Flowers(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Infinity Reservoir(WordCity)
“Inflammation” (linked verse)
Insignificance (Toasted Cheese Literary Journal)
“It’s Complicated” (Ink Sac)
“Karaoke” (The Heduan Review)
Kermit on My Leg(DoubleSpeak Magazine)
“Kissing Kermit”(DoubleSpeak Magazine)
“Knife” (The Piker Press)
“Lance-Esque” (Alternate Route)
Late-Summer Saturday, 2021(DREICH)
Leaving Work(Statement Magazine)
Mechanics of Mundane Things (The Stray Branch)
“Megan Visits Pittsburgh” (Lothlorien Poetry Journal)
Michael & Marilyn (Abandoned Mine Journal)
“Milgate Bathroom”(Sybil Journal)
“Mine” (JAKE)
missing home(Winamop)
* “Moment (October)(Fast Pop Lit)
“Mortal Kombat” (Stickman Review)
“Most Intense Was to Wait / I Set a Timer and Lived” (linked verse)
My Dejected Catholic Upbringing (Cacti Fur)
“Now That You Are Engaged” (Sweet Tree Review)
“Obsolescence” (Avant[Appalachia])
“Of Passing Cars” (First Literary Review– East)
“Omnipotence” (Ephemeral Elegies)
“On a Zoom Call with the World” (Flights)
On Earth, We Travel a Thousand Miles Every Hour (The Vineyard)
“One-Minute Manager” (Hearth & Coffin)
Opening Up(Delicate Friend)
“Operatic Pop”(Lothlorien Poetry Journal)
“Outsider Party Guests” (BlazeVOX Journal)
“pig” (Versification)
Playing Keyboard Is Self-Actualization(Flights)
** “Poppy(As It Ought To Be Magazine)
Pounds of Turkey(The Field Guide Magazine)
Precarious(WordCity)
Production Dinner, 2022(bluepepper)
“Promise of Morning” (Winamop)
Purple Paint(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Puzzle Deep (Divot)
“Quarantine (Day 60 – May 14, 2020)” (Ink in Thirds)
Rainwater Is Now Undrinkable(A Thin Slice of Anxiety)
Rabbit(The Beatnik Cowboy)
Rare(ActiveMuse)
Red Dove(BlazeVOX Journal)
“Regrets” (Taj Mahal Review)
Reruns(San Antonio Review)
“Rice” (Ink Pantry)
“Rising Star Coffee” (Raw Dog Press)
San Diego Zoo(EAP Magazine)
Screens(BlazeVOX Journal)
“Scrub” (Roi Fainéant)
“Shared Wall” (The Kolkata Arts)
Silicon Valley (Season One, Episode Eight)(Statement Magazine)
“Silverlake Visitor” (The Piker Press)
“Simple Mechanics” (The Kolkata Arts)
“Sixth Anniversary” (Last Leaves)
So Frigid, Even Light Posts Are Shivering (The Sunlight Press)
“Sock Puppets” (The Globe Review)
“Some Class”(The Gorko Gazette)
“Someone Near Is Killing Cats”(The Kolkata Arts)
St. Petersburg in January(ArtVilla)
“Strangers with Appreciation”(confetti)
Summer Sputter(Backwards Trajectory)
“Sundays at Park Street Tavern” (Euphemism)
“Take It Easy” (A Thin Slice of Anxiety)
Temporary(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Tether(Poetry Salzburg)
The Bird an Echo(Unlikely Stories Mark V)
“the conspiracy of money”(In Parentheses)
The Curtain(White Stag #SPIRIT Anthology)
“The Dark” (Ink Pantry)
“The Dog Is Always Greener” (Pinhole Poetry)
“The End” (Delta Poetry Review)
“The Forest” (confetti) 
“The Inflatable Exhibition” (The Seraphic Review)
“The Mall” (In Parentheses)
“The New” (Roi Fainéant)
The Percussive Life(Eunoia Review)
The Sculptor (Discretionary Love)
The Sword of Light (Bindweed Magazine)
“The Wash” (Poor Yorick)
The Wedding Poem(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
There Is a Wall(The Seventh Quarry)
“They Ask What You Are”  (children, churches, & daddies)
“Third Love” (Mad Swirl)
“This American Factory” (The Wise Owl)
“This Vestibule” (Osmosis Press)
“Thrift Store Sweater” (Live Nude Poems)
“To Amber (From Irie)” (Fine Lines)
To Kailee (From Irie)(Backchannels)
To Sara (From Kermit)(Unlikely Stories Mark V)
“Tomorrow” (impspired)
“Tournament of Bachelors” (The Waiting Room)
Trust(DoubleSpeak Magazine)
“Tuesday Introvert” (The Wise Owl)
“Twix” (PPP Ezine)
Two Best Friends(Pennsylvania Bards Western PA Poetry Review 2023)
“Visit” (Obsessed with Pipework)
“Waiting for Wedding” (The Kolkata Arts)
Waiting on Mr. Woodpecker(Bruiser Mag)
“Wall-Pounding Street-Squawking” (Lothlorien Poetry Journal) 
“Wandering Alone This House” (In Parentheses)
“Wealthy Sibling Photoshoot”(Ink Pantry)
Wedding (July 3, 2022)(Avant[Appalachia])
“Wednesday Morning Sun” (Poetry Super Highway)
“When I Don’t Write in My Journal” (BOMBFIRE)
When People Say You Grow More Conservative With Age(Writer’s Block Magazine)
“Wolf in the Garden” (Flights)
Video Games on New Year’s Day” (A Thin Slice of Anxiety)
Years Later I Crave Loneliness(Writer’s Block Magazine)
“You Ask if I Want Children” (Roi Fainéant)
You Ask What Home Means to Me(Bindweed Magazine)
“You Celebrate Your Birthday While I Have a Religious Experience” (ArtVilla)
“You Text Me Your Grief I Send You a Gif” (Euphemism)
You Wanted to Fill My Room(BlazeVOX Journal)
“You’ll Know Me Always by the Red Door” (Words & Whispers)
Your Offer(Taj Mahal Review)
Your Second Lover”  (children, churches, & daddies)
“Zone 28”(DREICH)

2022

Chapbook:

Count Seeds With Me(Ethel, April 2022)

Poems:

“2008 Fragment (College)” (*82 Review)
A Cockatrice Couple(*82 Review)
A Courtship Beyond My Reckoning(Evening Street Review)
A Year(Nauseated Drive)
After a Date at the Culver Hotel Bar(Neuro Logical)
After the Election, 2020(Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles)
Anytown, USA(Moss Trill)
April 14, 2008(Literary Forest)
Artifact(Perceptions)
Barge(Maryland Literary Review)
Beach House Concert: 2012/2022(Stickman Review)
Beer Pong” (HAD)
Blue Bridge(indicia)
Breathless Electric Silence(indicia)
Carl Reiner Photoshoot(Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters)
Catcall / Catastrophe” (G*MOB)
Christmas, 2017(OVERHEARD)
Colorado Hammock(The Racket)
Columbus Crew SC(G*MOB)
Conflict(Ink Pantry)
Cookie Cake(Squawk Back)
Cover(Ink Pantry)
Death Is Not Real Until You View the Body(The Headlight Review)
deeply a pot of cheap ramen(Count Seeds with Me)
Deer(Thirteen Myna Birds)
Dental Care(Ink Pantry)
Depression in February(OVERHEARD)
Distraction(In Parentheses)
End of Week Two (Happiest Season, 1/31/20)(Nauseated Drive)
Endless Imagination(OpenDoor Magazine)
Endless Twine, So to Speak(Ink Pantry)
“Fall Guys” (One)
Findley Lake(Roi Faneant)
Flu, 2017” (North Dakota Quarterly)
Force Field(Perceptions)
Frailty and Fervor(HAD)
Halloween, 2019(Sparks of Calliope)
Hamburglar(HAD)
Hard to Think Around the Thing(Ink Pantry)
Hog(HAD)
Hydrangeas(Live Nude Poems)
I Bought Overpriced Binoculars at an Estate Sale(Stickman Review)
I Convince My Mom to Write(Hello America Stereo Cassette)
“In a State of Sin” (Obsessed with Pipework)
Indebted to Entanglement(MONO.)
Khruangbin Concert, 2022(Roi Faneant)
Kodak(Nauseated Drive)
Late for Work(Monologging)
Late-Stage Capitalism(Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles)
leafblower(In Parentheses)
Little Cartoon(Jersey Devil Press)
Look for Me, Someday, in a Sentimental Ad(Count Seeds With Me)
Lonely(G*MOB)
Lost(Pomona Valley Review)
Low Note(Perceptions)
March(Fine Lines)
Mid-Ohio(OVERHEARD)
“Mockery” (Mason Street)
Most of What I Say(Hiram Poetry Review)
My Mind’s Forbidden Animals(Roi Faneant)
“O” (Rabid Oak)
OK Google(Spinozablue)
Olentangy River Road(Corvus Review)
“On Sassafras the KEPT ONES” (Spinozablue)
Outside a Ralphs in San Diego(Scapegoat Review)
Photonics(The New England Monthly Poetry Digest)
Precedent(mutiny! magazine)
“Quarantine (March 17, 2020)” (HAD)
Sap-Stuck(*82 Review)
“Serious” (Mad Swirl)
Sixty-Hour Workweek(Rabid Oak)
Sometimes(Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal)
Sometimes I Float Through Suburbs(G*MOB)
The Basement(Hello America Stereo Cassette)
“The Future Will Have No Sympathy for Our Undoing” (Evening Street Review)
The Increase Between Two Distances(LEVITATE)
The Parking Garage Beneath Westside Pavilion(Train: a poetry journal)
The Tendril(Ink Sac)
Trying to Make Friends After Improv Class(Stickman Review)
Two Weeks(Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal)
“Visit” (Obsessed with Pipework)
“Weathered, We Return to Columbus” (Monologging)
We are quiet when(Ink Sac)
We Live With Animals(Raw Dog Press)
What Else(The Spotlong Review)
Where We Are Going(Kalopsia)
“Wildwood” (Stink Eye Magazine)
Write Everything(Spinozablue)
Yellow Poncho(Northwest Indiana Literary Journal)
“Your Control” (SLANT)


2021

Chapbook:

Our Past Leaves(August 2021, Kelsay Books)

Poems:

2.16(Ariel Chart)
2020(Flashes)
28th Street Bridge(where is the river)
32nd Birthday (Quarantine)(Windows Facing Windows Review)
“A Forest” (Sybil Poetry Journal)
A Morning in Knox, PA – September, 2020(Ginosko Literary Journal)
A Statement on Religion(Penmen Review)
Acre(The Subnivean)
After(EgoPHobia)
After I See Your Post About Visiting L.A.(Cacti Fur)
Airplane of Ember Leaves(Ariel Chart)
Anachronism / Angiosperm(Ginosko Literary Journal)
Annie, to Say the Ocean Hasn’t Changed You–(The Broken City)
Apex(Beatnik Cowboy)
“April 6, 2020” (Ginosko Literary Journal)
August 10, 2012(EgoPHobia)
Bananagrams(Freshwater Literary Journal)
Before Coronavirus(Ginosko Literary Journal)
Blurry(The Writing Disorder)
Body(Agony Opera)
Boneless / Bells(Scarlet Leaf Review)
Broken A/C(Erothanatos)
Buildings in the Distance(Ygdrasil)
Cafe Bourbon Street (Columbus, Ohio, 2018)(The Dillydoun Review)
Calendar Year(Ink Sac)
Capstone(KGB Bar Lit)
Carcass(Willows Wept Review)
Career(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
Chasing Shadows(Ginosko Literary Journal)
Cleaning a Room Is a Tornado of Cords(Marías at Sampaguitas)
Clearing My Throat Before the Water(Marías at Sampaguitas)
Countdown(BOMBFIRE)
Courier(Uppagus)
“Cracked Windshield” (Kingdoms in the Wild)
Cyclicality(Communicators League)
Day 14 of 21 (Block A)(The Broadkill Review)
December, 2020(Dodging the Rain)
Defund the Police(BREATHE)
Delivery(Freshwater)
Descendant of the Big Bang(The Subnivean)
Din(The Subnivean)
Disc Golf(Penmen Review)
Dreaming of New Orleans(Flights)
Drowning in a Small Bowl(Eunoia Review)
Dust(Amarillo Bay)
Early Twenties(Dreich Magazine)
Eiffel 65(Ginosko Literary Journal)
Entropy at Highland Square” (Marías at Sampaguitas)
Eyes (Mine)(Hello America Stereo Cassette)
Fall Guys #2(TRIBES Online)
“Falling Rock” (Bond Street Review)
Fashion(Gingerbread Ritual Literary Review)
Filling(Erothanatos)
Finding a Game Token in My Change Jar(Dear Reader)
Finger(EgoPHobia)
Fish on the Shore(Euphemism)
For Once I’d Like to Hear You Over My Brain(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
For M.P.N.(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
For You the Invading Weeds(Ginosko Literary Journal)
Foreheads(impspired)
Gaze Down Not Eyes(The Subnivean)
Gelato(Dreich Magazine)
Going to a Concert(Constellations)
Gummies(The Writing Disorder)
“House of Miracles” (Home Planet News Online)
House Sitting in Los Angeles, 2015(Agony Opera)
“I Always Avoided Landscaping” (San Diego Poetry Annual)
I am in my blue childhood(Dear Reader)
I have been having nightmares of a police state(Flowersong Press)
I worked too much this week(Sybil Poetry Journal)
In Another Life I am Content Enough(Flights)
In bed my feet touching your leg(Ariel Chart)
Inevitable Change(Bindweed Magazine)
Indie Film Production(where is the river)
It’s 9:45 I’m Happy to Be Alive(impspired)
I’ve Been on a Bender Since Becoming an Adult(Incessant Pipe)
Jessie Must Think I Am Pathetic” (Knot Magazine)
Leak(White Wall Review)
Litter Box(Dreich Magazine)
“Local Chatty Drunkard” (Erothanatos)
Low-Visibility Night Drive Home(Fine Lines)
“Marina & the Diamonds” (Ygdrasil)
Melted Plastic(CERASUS)
Memory Outshines the Moment(Erothanatos)
Mercury in Retrograde(Abandon Journal)
Milgate Mornings(Erothanatos)
“Mist” (datura)
Mornings and Insects(Studio1)
Multimodality(Ginosko Literary Journal)
My Barber Says Hello in Public(Miranda House’s Philosophy Magazine)
My Privilege(Flowersong Press)
Nadir(Magnolia Review)
Napkin Poem #2(Ygdrasil)
Near-Collisions(The Writing Disorder)
“Nearly December & You Have Moved” (Home Planet News Online)
Nest(Capsule Stories – Second Isolation Anthology)
New Year(Black Moon Magazine)
“New Year’s Eve, 2020” (Ginosko Literary Journal)
Noodles(Gingerbread Ritual Literary Review)
Now That It Is Safe to Go Outside(Chronogram)
Now That the End Is in Sight(Capsule Stories – Second Isolation Edition)
Ode to Gargoyles(Artvilla)
Old Journals(Thirteen Myna Birds)
Overtime(Bluepepper)
Party on the Precipice of Change(Flights)
PGH / Capitalism / Aimless(Thin Air Online)
Phases of Education(White Wall Review)
Plot(Avatar Review)
Poetry Publications(Dreich Magazine)
Pre-Alcoholic(Red Rover Magazine)
Proofreading(Penmen Review)
Protest Beginning in Friendship Park (Pittsburgh, June 5, 2020)(BREATHE)
Rarely Drive These Days(Viral Imaginations: COVID-19)
Reasons to Leave(Avatar Review)
Red String(Agony Opera)
Rollbacks(The Literary Heist)
Same As It Ever Was(The Drunken Llama)
Saying Hello at Kafe Kerouac(Erothanatos)
Scattered Branches(Agony Opera)
Semi(Adelaide Literary Journal Anthology)
September 22, 2020(Academy of the Heart and Mind)
“September Pool Rental” (where is the river)
Shirtless in Goodale Park(Poetry Super Highway)
“Shoppers” (Communicators League)
Sketches of Buildings(where is the river)
“Space Puzzle” (Home Planet News Online)
Spies(White Wall Review)
Sports Car(Scarlet Leaf Review)
Spring, 2020(Marías at Sampaguitas)
St. Patrick’s Day, 2017(Scarlet Leaf Review)
St. Patrick’s Day, 2019(Erothanatos)
St. Petersburg, 2015(Poetry Super Highway)
Stairs Into the Basement(Avalon Literary Review)
Starbucks(The Daily Drunk)
Still Quarantined(Dreich Magazine)
Stock-Tank Pool(Erothanatos)
* “Stomach-Something(Agapanthus)
Sugar Makes You Sad(Agony Opera)
Take the City, Too(BOMBFIRE)
Talking Stand-Up Comedy in Pittsburgh(The Big Windows Review)
Tetris(Sybil Poetry Journal)
Thanksgiving, 2019(Pandemonium Journal)
The Bomb(impspired)
The Current(CERASUS)
The Days Are Bored With My Language(datura)
The Exterminator(children, churches, & daddies)
The Hunger(Bindweed Magazine)
The Movies(Ginosko Literary Journal)
The Old City(EAP)
The Photographs of Layzerus(EgoPHobia)
The Rotation of Bicycle Wheels(Scarlet Leaf Review)
The Solipsists(The Subnivean)
The Spectacle of the Oscars(Whistling Shade)
“The Weeds Went Wild With You Gone” (Home Planet News Online)
Then I Hear Me(Hello America Stereo Cassette)
Think Positive Thoughts at Plants(CommuterLit)
This House She Won’t Want(CERASUS)
This Morning(Studio1)
This Old Table Means So Much to You(Bindweed Magazine)
Thlok(The Disappointed Housewife)
Three Rivers Studios(EgoPHobia)
To Billy (From Irie)(Communicators League)
To Those Who Say High School Is the Best Four Years(Fine Lines)
Trajectory(The Drunken Llama)
Two Days Before Final Fantasy VII Remake, Bernie Ends His Campaign(Marías at Sampaguitas)
Tuesday(Penmen Review)
What We Can Watch(Door Is A Jar)
White Mulch(TRIBES Online)
White Noise Eucharist(Poetry Super Highway)
Working the Cologne Department at Macy’s, 2010(Tipton Poetry Journal)
World Series, 2019(Knot Literary Magazine)
you couldn’t sleep until three;(The Broadkill Review)
You Want Positivity? Here’s Some Positivity(The Broadkill Review)
Zoo / Depression(Visceral Uterus)

*Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology
**Nominated for Pushcart Prize