Published poems/essays are organized alphabetically by journal name.
New work is forthcoming in Amuse Bouche/Lunch Ticket; Big Brutal Act Anthology (Harbor Anthologies); Cimarron Review; Eckleburg; I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems (Wesleyan University Press); Ilanot Review; Magpie on the Gallows: Poems on Bosch and Bruegel’s Art (Carbonation Press); MER; New Ohio Review; NYQ Magazine; Pearl Street’s Rising from the Ashes anthology; Painted Bride Quarterly; Plume; Poetry South; Pushpins of Paradise (University Press of Florida); Psaltery & Lyre; Sine Qua Non (runner-up for the inaugural poetry prize); Small Orange; West Trestle Review; and other venues.
About Place, “Bikini,” “During quarantine, I embrace myself as a long-hauler,” “In Quarantine, I Splinter Anger,” “After Lockdown, Summer Prayer for,” “Spraying for Zika: A Lesson in the Hydrology Cycle in the Everglades”
Action, Spectacle, “The Mother of Miami Describes Meningitis“
A-Minor Magazine, “Estrangement Is a Bitter Fruit; Or, Why I Couldn’t Watch Poetry Become History at LV”
Aji Magazine, “Evaporating Villanelle for a Declining Pet”
American Poetry Journal, “Some Birds Were Welcome for a Time“
Amuse-Bouche/Lunch Ticket, “Incantation for the God Gene”
Another Chicago Magazine, “Salt,” “The Progressive Lenses of Subdivisions”
AS/Artists Studio Magazine, “Antonomasia”
ASP Bulletin (Alan Squires Publishing), “We Pretend Britney Spears Is a Hurricane” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), “The Crisis Is a Border“
Atlanta Review, fall/winter 2023, “Iguana Watch; Or, a Divine Flow for Polar Fronts” (available for purchase); spring/summer 2025, “A Sonnet of American Sentences for the Equinox and After” (available for purchase)
The Bangor Literary Journal, “I praise my neighbors”
The Banyan Review, “Quahog (AKA The Chowder Clam)”
Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 45, “A History of Melasma” (available for purchase); issue 49, “After oral surgery, I am” (available for purchase)
Blue Lyra Review, “Refrain for Rooftop Season,” “Miami: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Me”
Blue Unicorn, Volume XLVII, Number 1, Fall 2023, “Sonnet for Whatever Can Come to a Wall Can Come to This Wall” (available for purchase)
Book of Matches, “The Hawk as Omniscient Narrator”
The Broadkill Review, “Contemplation on Going-to-the-Sun Road;” “Steps for Frying: A Guide for Birds” (nominated for Best of the Net)
Bullets into Bells, “How to Dis/Arm a Female Teacher”
CHEST, “American Sentencing”
Cider Press Review, “I Drink to Irony,” “Incantation for Akimbo,” “Misdirection”
Cigar City Poetry Journal, “Bodies of Evidence”
Cleaver Magazine, “Night Sweats”
Cold Mountain Review, “A Vatican of Cardinals Visits on Mother’s Day”
The Compassion Anthology, “Internment”
The Comstock Review, “When You See Something, Stay Camouflaged,” Volume 33:2, fall/winter 2019; “Scenes from an Indonesian Village Where Flooding Hits a Nearby Dye, Factory, Turning the Water Red,” Volume 35, spring/summer, 2021 (print; all available for purchase)
Connecticut River Review, issue 2025, “Elephant Tax” (available for purchase)
Construction Magazine, “To the Man Who Parked His Jacked-Up F-150 with Steel Nuts Hanging from the Fender in the Disabled Spot” (2019 competition finalist), “What Marks the Spot Is the Cost of Doing Business”
Crab Creek Review, “23andMe Says My Body Is A Sanctuary City,” (semi-finalist for the 2017 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize; also a finalist for the 2017 Bermuda Triangle prize;) “Mud,” “Zinnias Are Known as ‘Cut and Come Again’ Flowers” (print; all available for purchase)
Crab Orchard Review, “Plexiglass Suburbia,” “Slough Slogging in the Dry Season” (print; available for purchase)
Cultural Daily, “Duck” (2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Finalist)
Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, “Through the Ash, New Leaves,” issue 27, Volume 1, Spring 2022, “Nazi Memorabilia Are the Hot Lots” (Finalist, 2021 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest); “The Nature of Nature and Human Nature,” issue 28, “Kapok” (Finalist, 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest); “Shooting the Alpha Female”; “Taking Liberties,” 20th anniversary issue, Vol 1/Issue 1 2025 “How to Die Off,” “Many Animals Play Dead,” (Honorable Mention, 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest) “Reverie for the Earth in the Time Signature of the Anthropocene” (print; all available for purchase)
december, “When Judge Judy Calls Your Outfit a Queen Esther Costume,” volume 30, issue 2 (print; available for purchase)
DIAGRAM, “Bracelet for Sale on Mercari,” “Evaporating Villanelle for Labor”
DIALOGIST, “Today I will celebrate all that is lovely in the world”
The Dodge, “Insects,” “Canceling Adult Swim,” “Searching for the Florida Panther, I See Only Signs”; “Zap”
Drunk Monkeys, “When Judge Judy Asks You How Many Times You’ve Been Arrested”
Emerge Literary Journal, “Journey,” “The Maze Stretches Its Legs“
Fantastic Floridas, “For Urgent Prayer, Please Press 1”
Equinox, “Extreme Heat Warning,” “Portable Altar,” “Text This Number in the US to Find out Which Native Land You’re Living on; Or, a Divine Flow for Land Acknowledgments” (issue 6 Honorable Mention), “After Moving into Her Remodeled House, Julia Tuttle Speaks about the Haunting” (issue 8 Honorable Mention)
Fatal Flaw, “Superstition“
Feral: A Journal of Art and Poetry, “In Quarantine, I Dissect Ambition”
The Fourth River, “Play, with Foreign Object”, “The Nature of Nurture,” “Snowbirds” (reprinted in The Global South); “Self-Portrait as Anna’s Hummingbird“
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, “My Son’s First Brain”
Gordon Square Review, “Internment”
Gravel, “Premature Requiem for Frigate Birds”, “Hip”
Grist, Issue 17, 2025, “A Framed Sestina for the Genetics of Forgetting” (runner-up for the Pro Forma Prize; available for purchase)
Gyroscope Review, “Decoys”
The Hamilton Stone Review, “Do Over,” “The Quality Time of Slow Travel,” “Surge: An Epigenesis”
Harpur Palate, “Even My Name Suggested Wings“
Headway Quarterly, “Mare Internum: The Secret World Inside You” (runner-up in Headway Quarterly’s Inaugural Writing Contest)
Heavy Feather Review, “What We Did”
Hobart, “Boyish Pursuits,” “For Use in Forecasting”
ICON, “Aqiqah: The Boat Speaks” (winner of the 2017 Hart Crane Poetry Award)
Indianapolis Review, “Self Help Q-and-A at Zoo da Maia”
The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, “Aphasia,” “Bilateral Tendencies,” “Dances with Pills,” “Ode to Melatonin“
JAMA, “Vitreous”
Jet Fuel Review, “Future Humans Won’t See This,” “The Golden Orbanizer Speaks the Shadoma”
Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art, “A Sonnenizio for a Summer That’s Making Me Wait”
K’in, “Make Sure You Don’t Get Shit-Faced and Land on Your”
LEON Literary Review, “An Abecedarian of American Sentences as a Summary of Intrinsic Motivation“
Limp Wrist, “Evaporating Villanelle for Algae Bloom”
The Laurel Review, “Soil Taxonomy” (print; available for purchase)
The MacGuffin, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, fall 2022, “X Marks the Spot” (print; available for purchase); Vol. XL, No. 2, April 2025, “Love Poem for Namaste; Or, a Divine Flow for Elevation,” “Left” (semi-finalists in Poet Hunt 29, available for purchase)
The McNeese Review/Boudin, “Marching Band Perp Walk”* and “How to Get Away with Slinging a Celine,” (“Marching Band Perp Walk” nominated for a 2019 “Best of the Net” Award); “Self-Portrait as God’s Greatest GIF”
Mantis, issue 23, “Six People Have This in Their Cart Right Now; Or, a Divine Flow for Seeing in the Red” (available for purchase)
Matter Monthly, “Kapok Tree,” “Ritual”
The Maynard, “The Gee Whiz Element of Tropical Storms and Symphonies,” “A Symptom of Resignation”
Medmic, “A Sonnet for Autoinflammatory Arthritis”
Menacing Hedge, “When Judge Judy Asks If You’re on Psychotropic Meds,” “Out Here in Television Land,” “Contract Law, to the Letter”
Mezzo Cammin, “X-Ray, Three Views, for an Impression of Osteoporosis,” “Jesus Christ Has Entered the Waiting Room on,” “Take Your Both Eyes off of the World,” “How to Wash Dishes in a Commercial Kitchen; Or, a Divine Flow for the Brigade de Cuisine,” “False Veneer,” “Aubade for the Airplane Prairie; Or, a Divine Flow for Mangrove Tunnels”
Michigan Quarterly Review, “I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage,” “Custody”
Midnight Chem, “Riding and Falling the Slants of the Earth,” “A Character Who Does What You Might Do“
Midway Journal, “Mouse, After Traveling;” “Rhizome Bombs“
The Missouri Review “Poems of the Week,” “Borromean Rings,” “Infusions”
Mom Egg Review (MER VOX), “Advised to Keep a Journal During Lockdown, I Pretend I Am in Pompeii” “Quaran-teened,” “Brief Portrait of Millennials As a Nebulizer; Or, There Are Reasons to Breathe,” “Photograph of a Boy and His Dog,” “Babka“
Narrative Northeast, “Marine Pilots Investigated for Drawing Penis and Testicles with Plane” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
NELLE, Issue Eight, 2025, “At My Uncle’s Funeral, as Custom Dictates,” “A Transfer Between Symbionts” (available for purchase)
The New Poet, “To a Stone, Caught in the Rube Goldberg Digestion Machine”
North Dakota Quarterly, “Jump,” “No(ise Is What I Hear”
Notre Dame Review, “Flotsam & Jetsam” issue, Number 53, winter/spring 2022, “Letting a Thousand Flowers Blossom” (print/available for purchase)
One, “Voyage, Closed and Done” (nominated for 2016 Best of the Net), “Giant Swallowtail Origin Story,” “Face Value,” “The Only Argument There Is,” “The Manatees, Myer-Briggs Personality Type INFP, Hang Out“
Ovenbird, “Atrophy” (also collected in The 64 Best Poets of 2019 Anthology, Black Mountain Press, print/available for purchase)
Painted Bride Quarterly, “The Physics of Falling Mangoes”
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, “Fishing with Family: A Small Tale of Seasickness” (second place winner); “Elsa’s Staircase” (third place winner)
Panorama: A Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, “To the Hiker Who Showed Me the Meadow of Wild Chives” (nominated by the editors for Best American Essays)
Pareidolia Literary, “Yokemate”
The Penn Review, “Rub”
Peauxdunque Review, “The Anthropogenesis of a Relative Relationship Based Solely on Proximity,” issue 2 (print; available for purchase)
Pine Hills Review, “Echo, with Pandemic,” “Judge Judy Is Not Dr. Phil” and “The Blathering Blues, as Performed by Judge Judy”
Pleiades, “Landscape, with Hibernation”
Plume, “Snowfall, with Reconciliation“
Poet Lore, “I Dream That My Dead Brother Sues Me on Judge Judy,” volume 114, issue 3/4 (print; available for purchase)
The Poet’s Billow, “Anecdata” (runner-up in The Atlantis Award; nominated for 2016 “Best of the Net” Award and The Pushcart Prize); “Mobility” (finalist for the 2017 Bermuda Triangle Prize)
Poetry South, “Ways to Discount a Woman,” 2019 issue (print; available for purchase)
Prime Number Magazine, “Congressional Complex”; “While waiting for biopsy results, I learn that tattoos are now linked to lymphoma,” (winner of the 2025 Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge)
Psaltery & Lyre, “Swell,” “Vision: Myopic”
Public School Poetry, “A Roundontini for Dallas, Who Bites,” “The Dog Trainer Says,” “Entrance to the Millennium“
Quartet, “After the deluge,“
Rattle, “Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access to Health Care”
Rise Up Review, “Necrosis”
River Heron Review, “An Abecedarian for When All That Glitters Is Glitter”
River Styx, “Grandmother Fugue”
Rogue Agent Journal, “Apologia to My Scapula”, “Nocturne with Needle,” “Extreme Value Theorem,” “Self-Portrait with Menopause and Melasma“
Ruminate, “Immortality Is (Im)Material“
Salamander, “Anatomy of a Shipwreck in the Mediterranean,” issue fall/winter 2018-19 (print; available for purchase)
Santa Ana River Review, “Almost After Appearance”
Scintilla, “Native Shapes”
Seneca Review, 43.2-44.1 “What Judge Judy Says” (print; available for purchase); 55/1 “For the Wild Ducks Who Nest in Domestic Spaces; Or, a Divine Flow for Killer Policies,” “We Kill to Keep; Or, a Divine Flow for the Florida Panther” (print; available for purchase)
Sheila-Na-Gig, “Aubade for Birds,” “During Quarantine, I Discover That @Death Follows Me on Twitter”, “36 Percent of Adults Count“
Shenandoah, “The Limitations of Batesian Mimicry; Or, a Divine Flow for Habitat Loss”
The Shore, “A Nocturne for Challah,” “The Opossum Is a Marsupial
Shot Glass Journal, “Birefringence”
Sixth Finch, “Miami Is the Best City for Naked Gardening”
South 85 Journal, “White ibises are wading waterbirds, but”
South Dakota Review, “Mild Cognitive Disorder, So (Un)Stated,” “Train-Rattling” (for purchase)
South Florida Poetry Journal, “Hope Is a Four-Letter Word That Means To,” “Tsuris”
The Spectacle, “In the Photic Zone”
Split Rock Review, “Imperfect Authentic Cadence: Music Theory for the Mare Nostrum,” “A raccoon sits on my front steps every afternoon”
Spillway, “From the Department of Vegetable Pathology, We Regret to Inform You,” “Luggage: The Bass” (print; available to purchase)
Stickman Review, “Boxing Felix,” “Fireflies”
Stirring: A Literary Collection, “Achilles’ Pathology”
swamp pink, “Dieback“
Sweet: Lit, “Galaxies,” “Glory Is the Passing Kidney Stone,” “It’s about the dog, but not really about the dog,” (nominated for a Best of the Net Award), “Post-Menopausal Love Poem That Begins with Guilt and Ends with Air Plants” (2021 poetry competition finalist), “Too brief again, this August light” (2024 poetry competition winner)
TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, “Unfriending the Dead,” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize); “Obituary for the Order of Things; Or, an Abecedarian for Programmed Cell Death;” (volume 13, 2025) “A Sonnenizio for Thrifting” (available for purchase)
Tampa Review, “The Song Remained the Same,” Issue 59/60 (print; available for purchase)
Tar River Poetry, volume 62, number 1, fall 2022, “Vow” (print; available for purchase)
Terrain.org, “Mango: An Inheritance with a High Error Rate,” “Natural Selection”
Thin Air Magazine, “About the Abeyance of Insects; Or, Why Judge Judy Keeps Flyswatters on the Bench,” “Instructions for Finding a Detachable Set of Invisible Wings”
Tiferet Journal, “Birkat HaBayit: A Woman Is a Bird When,” winner of the 2020 Writing Contest for Poetry, Autumn/Winter 2020 issue (print; available for purchase)
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “The Foundation of the Number Six (Is Family and a Harmonious Home)” (2019 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins competition finalist)
Twyckenham Notes, “Aubade After Tropical Storm”
Under a Warm Green Linden, “Evaporating Villanelle During a Time of Pandemic” and “I Live at Ground Zero of the Climate Exodus; Or, How to Sell a Waterfront Home in Miami,” “Peak Intensities: A Doctored Pastoral”
Valparaiso Poetry Review, “Millipedes in the Wet Season,” “The Sound of Zero Copula,” “Trophic Cascade,” “Under the Weather”
Waxwing Literary Magazine, “Rooster Blues”, “Fishing from the Roof of the House“
West Trade Review, “Pretzel”
The Westchester Review, “My Hairdresser Is a Man Who Loves the Shape of a Woman’s,” “A Flamboyance Returns, Then Returns,” “Traversing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge“
Whale Road Review, “Yearn,” “A Jar Is Where My Father Keeps His Cigarette Butts”
The Worcester Review, Volume XLI, Numbers 1 & 2, 2020, “I Pose / For a Selfie with Venom / My Termite Service Technician / Who Is Still Sometimes Recognized as His Nineties UFC Persona;” Volume XLIV, Numbers 1 & 2, 2023, “Nature Does Not Perform to a Human Timetable; Or, a Divine Flow for Turtles Hatching Around the High Holidays” (print; available for purchase)
Anthologies and Textbooks
101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, eds. Matthew E. Silverman, Nancy Naomi Carlson (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), “In Poverty of Climate, People of Other Are Known as Lichen”
A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability, ed. Tennison S. Black (Sundress Publications, 2023), “Echo with Pandemic”
Bloomsbury’s Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, eds. Matthew E. Silverman, Deborah Ager (Bloomsbury )
The Book of Life After Death: Essays & Poems, ed. Tim Linder (Tolsun Books), “Elegy for a Gambler”
Braving the Body, eds. Nicole Callihan, Jennifer Franklin, and Chenda Bao (Harbour Books, March 2024), ““On our 31st wedding anniversary, I discover my heart has hardened,”
Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails, eds. Dave Kyu ad Ilyssa Kyu (Mountaineers Books, 2023), “Searching for the Florida Panther, I Find Only Signs,” “Slough Slogging in the Dry Season”
The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, ed. Hannah Soyer (Sable Books, 2022), “X-Ray, Three Views, for an Impression of Osteoporosis”
Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology, eds. Amy M. Alvarez, Pamela Gemme, Shana Hill, Alexis Ivy (West Virginia University Press, 2023), “During Quarantine, I Embrace Myself as a Long-Hauler,” “Evaporating Villanelle During a Tine of Pandemic”
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, eds. Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Elisa Albo (Beacon Press, 2020), “Recipe for Resistance,” “Where to Bow to the Will of the Majority”
Hurricane Blues
Is It Hot in Here Or Is It Just Me? Women Over 40 Write on Aging, ed. Jannette Schafer (Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, 2019) “I regret eating freedom for breakfast”
Navigating Narratives: A Thematic Reader (Hawkes Learning, 2022), “Confederate Lake Effect”
Read Water: An Anthology, es. Hari Alluri, Garret Bryant, Amanda Fuller (Locked Horn Press, 2020), “From the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, the Boats Unionize: Evergreen Clause 1”
Recasting Masculinity, eds. Cedric Rudolph, RK Taylor, Matt Ussia (Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, 2020), “I Dream That My Dead Brother Sues Me on Judge Judy,” “My Son’s First Brain (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)” “To the Main Who Parked His Jacked-Up F-150 with Steel Nuts Hanging from the Fender in the Disabled Spot”
Red Door, 15th Anniversary Edition, Resonance Is Us, 2024, “Scenes from an Indonesian Village Where Flooding Hits a Nearby Dye Factory, Turing the Water Red” (available for purchase)
Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, ed. Crystal S. Gibbins (Flexible Press, 2020), “Flight Plan”
The Sixty-Four Best Poets of 2019 (The Black Mountain Press, 2020), “Atrophy”
Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry, ed. Sierra Nelson (World Enough Writers (March 23, 2024), “I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in a Miami Beach Parking Garage”
Features and Reprints
Acquired Taste, Poems from Brie Season, “A Note to GK Chesterton,” “Double Gloucester with Chives and Onions,” “Fibonacci’s Angels at Surfing Goat Dairy”
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, “Fire,” “My Husband Shoots Me,” “Walt Whitman’s Boys”
Cultural Weekly, Poems from The Burning Where Breath Used to Be, April 9, 2021
Eat This Poem, Poem from Brie Season, “The Cappuccino Life”
The Food Poet, Poem from Brie Season, “Segments of an Orange”
The Lake, One Poem Feature from Inheritance with a High Error Rate
Moms on Poetry, “Segments of an Orange”
Negative Capability Press, Poem and interview from The Treasures That Prevail
Poetry Superhighway, Poems from The Treasures That Prevail
RadiusLit, Feature on invented forms
Verse Daily, “Internment,” “The Nature of Nurture,” “The President of People Fooling Themselves”, “Shelter of Lies“, “What My Autopsy Will Reveal”
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed Sundress Publications, Poems from Inheritance with a High Error Rate, March 3-7, 2025
“Rooster Blues“
“Evaporating Villanelle for Algae Bloom“
“The Nature of Nurture“
“@Death Follows Me on Twitter“
“I Pose For a Selfie with Venom My Termite Service Technician Who Is Still Sometimes Recognized as His Nineties UFC Persona“
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed from Sundress Publications, Poems from The Crossing Over, June 24-28, 2019
“Mobility“
“Custody“
“The Histology of Greed“
“Dirge for a Dinghy“
“Anatomy of a Shipwreck in the Mediterranean“
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