Main menu POEMS IN PRINT POEMS ONLINE BlazeVOX: Within, Thirst, and Always the Ocean Pulse Literary Journal: C-H-A-R-L-E-S Combatives (with Erin M. Bertram) Vol.1, #3 Admit Two (with Erin M. Bertram): Rockface: Sestina, Exhaling On A French Night, and Yes, Matthew, There Is A Source Blue Lake Review: The Garden Memory Bluestem: Dreaming the Death Crack the Spine: Taxidermy Ishaan Literary Review: Battlefield, Tide and Leda’s Repression Poetry Super Highway: You Can’t Call The Dead and Triglycerides The Lake: Distorted Memory and The Week After Your Death Penwheel.lit: Move Burningword Literary Journal: To the Panhandlers of Northern Virginia Red Savina Review: No Oasis for Victims, Monsters, and Bipolar for Couples Thirteen Myna Birds: The Moment and XX Stirring: The Stitching Silver Birch Press, Me as a Child Series: The Red Slide Rogue Agent: Stones Tinderbox Poetry Journal: Code 296.40 and Better For Storms The Bleeding Lion: Cooking In The Night Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal: Abortion Lament Yellow Chair Review: You Can’t Paint the Moon Alyss: War for Dinner Hermeneutic Chaos: Strange Domesticity Moss Trill: womb walker, Holes, and Women [Thank You For Swallowing: [ ] Culture](https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/culture/) Melancholy Hyperbole: Egyptian Sorrow and Marriage on a Bad Day Prong & Posy: Skin Tales The Riveter Review: To My Rapist If and Only If: Documentation (forthcoming) The Fem: A Party Girl Meets the Elephant Flapperhouse: A Fan Girl Meets David Bowie Anti-Heroin Chic: What the River Took, A Young Girl Meets Her Older Self, Frightened Girl in the Circus, and Family Drunk Monkeys: He Kills Butterflies Fourth & Sycamore: PTSD and Visitation Narrative Northeast: A Hurricane We Rarely See Sheila Na Gig: We Were Birds and The Warmest Christmas Luna Luna Magazine: Depression On A Good Day, Some Nights, 2016, Landscape Of Youth, Knee Again, and Mechanical Motions Of Popping a Kneecap Back In Place Wherewithal: Underwater Reversal The Basil O’Flaherty: A 25 Year Old Girl Meets a Cat-Calling Man Window Cat Press: A Girl Raids Her Wardrobe and A Lonely Wife Discovers A Trashy Girl Entropy, Bird Poems: 4 poems Yes Poetry: Why They Voted Killjoy: What Didn’t Make It Back Into the Woods Rag Queen Periodical: Wendy Cuts a Melon, Wendy Risks Becoming An End Table, Don’t Let the Patriarchy Get You Down , Wet , The One Where I Change the End Silver Birch Press, Me, at 17 Series: Strange Relationship Riot Felice: When Larry Couldn’t Climb the Tree District Lit, disability special: The One Where He Tells Me He’s Retiring Construction Lit Mag: The Years Stack Against Us Cheat River Review: April’s Burial Crab Fat Magazine: Bear Violence Rabid Oak: Disco Nap Dream, Embers In My Mind Steal All Away, and The Dissection Bad Pony: I Feel Stupid and Contagious Ovenbird Poetry: Trying To Find a Marriage Counselor Dream Pop: Stigma Belly The Poeming Pigeon: Who Is Safe When The Gun Goes Off Menacing Hedge: Milk Boy Carves a Glance From Glass, Mothers become mothers become mothers, Patella People Blanket Sea Magazine: Doctor Dream, 1720 Pithead Chapel: Temporary in a Dark Purple Subaru Gone Lawn: Becoming, Hearing Pearl Jam’s Ten for the 115th Time, Zen Happens Sorority Mansion: Knees at Large Bold + Italic: Tibetan Prayer Flags GASHER Journal: Traffic Girl Starts To Suspect Rag Queen Periodical: #24 Birds Piled Loosely: Elliott Smith Stops for Cigarettes Along the Beach Bone & Ink Press: Traffic Girl Laments Random Sample: #50 Rogue Agent: Fear Bone Rockvale Review: Eulogy in the Dark Voices of Eve: Soft Voices and Memory Watches (forthcoming) Arcturus: The One Where Wifey Understands Pink Plastic House: Plastic Soul Done Right Fabulist Magazine: They Speak [Call Me [Brackets]: Pounding the Hammer Against What May Live and West Point](http://Call Me [Brackets]: Pounding the Hammer Against What May Live and West Point) HOOT: Through Thin Walls Biscuit Road Drive: When Place is What You Once Held Loose and American Mother Ghost Bible: Church Bones and Haunting Me South Broadway Ghost Society: The Hands That Caught Me Across the Social Distances: Outbreak or Breakout Can we have our ball back? (with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens): Here’s a Lesson for Little Girls Arlington Public Library Quaranzine, Issue #3: Mask or No Mask Blood Tree Literature: Ode to Hole’s Live Through This Coffin Bell Journal: Departure Global Poemic: Ode to COVID-19 Birdcoat Quarterly: How to Get Close to Jack White Whale Road Review: Trying to Forget Over a Bowl of Vegetable Soup The Shore: Her Hair is Full of Crickets Pangyrus: Ventilators in Demand perhappened mag: Neil Young Gives Me Heart Palpitations in the Living Room New South: The Pope Sits Down to Dinner (forthcoming) Across the Margin: The Weeping Woman Always Waits, Hurry Sweet Violence, and Ways I Drown BigCity Lit: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Erased OyeDrum: American Peep Show (forthcoming) Willawaw: Hominidae or Homo Sapiens Lumiere Review: Weighing In They Call Us: God as Boss Exhume: Moments in the Townhouse (forthcoming) Pine Hills Review: It’s Finally Spring (forthcoming) Tiny Spoon (with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens): Message Two Hawks Quarterly: The Narcissist as a Child (forthcoming) POETRY CHAPBOOKS FULL LENGTH POETRY BOOKS ANTHOLOGIES Crack the Spine Winter 2014 Anthology Wood Becomes Bone Collection: A Mental Health Awareness Series Lucid Moose, Like A Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity: War for Dinner Hysteria Anthology: womb walker (forthcoming) Paper Swans Press, The Chronicles of Eve: Superstition Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects: Ode to Cigarettes and The Patio White Stag, Neogoddesses: Home Lament, Things I Don’t Tell My Shrink, and Down By The Water Dead Cat Anthology: Sapphire, April Gone Come As You Are (ELJ Publications, 90s anthology): Thelma & Louise & Me A Shadow Map Anthology (Civil Coping Mechanisms): Boys, What Have You Done to Me and My Value as a Teenage Girl They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, co-authored with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens Written in Arlington anthology: Ode to Fairlington and My Son Tells Me About Lockdown Drills at Abingdon Elementary REVIEWS AWARDS & NOMINATIONS OTHER READINGS Under The Sign Of The Bear Reading Series, September 26, 2015 with Lesley Mcilroy, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, and Sarah Winn in Pittsburgh, PA Unrequited Love Book Release, June 17, 2016 at Upshur Books in Washington, DC Reading for Northwestern State University (upcoming April 15, 2021) EDITOR READING JOBS So To Speak–Reader during 2006 for one semester of GMU MFA program ELJ Publications–Assistant editor during some of 2014, all of 2015 