selected poems

Three poems • Terrain.org

"Poem, I am Tired" • The Boiler (2023 Best of the Net Nominee)

"Dance Dance Apocalypse" •  Verse Daily, Iron Horse Literary Review

“Tar River Taxidermy”Southern Humanities Review (print)

"How to Make Me” & other poems •  beestung (2023 Best of the Net nominee, 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee)

“Fall in Languedoc”The Florida Review (2023 Alexander Von Humboldt prize winner)

"Sharing the Table" • Ninth Letter (print)

"Poem Beginning with a Line from Paige Lewis" •  Longleaf Review

"Of All the Metaphors for Being a Daughter" • Southeast Review (2023 Best New Poets nominee)

"Emailing Your Mom a Poem Re: Sexual Trauma"Muzzle Magazine

"Husband Likes Her to Leave Fruit"Palette Poetry

all poems

2025

“dia-spores” • collaboration with Jody Chan, forthcoming from Spiral House Editions

"Yeah, Yeah, Healing" • forthcoming, Alien Mag

"Thirteen" • forthcoming, Puerto del Sol

Three poems • forthcoming, Appalachian Places

“Soft Shell” • Nature of Our Times (print)

"Birthday Poem” • Screen Door Review

"I Spent a Lifetime Trying to Be Good" and “This is Not a Riddle” • Sonora Review

“Against Arrival” • Ghost City Press

2024

Three poems • Terrain

"Fish Fry Day" • Denver Quarterly (print)

"We Did Not Ask God" • Whale Road Review

"Poem for Mother’s Day" • South Dakota Review (print)

"Love Letter from Captain Roy’s" • Spoon River Poetry Review (print)

2023

"Rapprochement" • Poet Lore (print)

"Tar River Taxidermy" • Southern Humanities Review (print)

"Dance Dance Apocalypse" •  Verse Daily

"Poem, I am Tired"The Boiler (2023 Best of the Net Nominee)

"Therapy Over a Fish Basket at Bubba's"Passages North (print)

"How to Make Me” & other poems •  beestung (2023 Best of the Net Nominee)

2022

"Love Songs for End Times" • Writers Resist

"Dance Dance Apocalypse"Iron Horse Literary Review

"Bright Pink Tubes" • RHINO

“Fall in Languedoc” and “A Robin at the Bus Station” The Florida Review

"Poem Beginning with a Line from Paige Lewis" •  Longleaf Review

"On Having a Daughter" and "Of All the Metaphors" • Southeast Review

"To Cure My Lonely" Rogue Agent

"The Poet Searches for a Quiet Place" • Moist Poetry

"Before the World Broke Open" Texas Poetry Calendar (print)

2021

"Sharing the Table" • Ninth Letter (print)

"Painting in Bright Blues"Kissing Dynamite

"Husband Likes Her to Leave Fruit"Palette Poetry

"Dispatch on Resiliency from Campsite 233"SWWIM

"Emailing Your Mom a Poem Re: Sexual Trauma"Muzzle Magazine

"Other Lessons" and "Five Years into Your Remission"VIDA Review 

"Portrait of Chanel Miller as Swift," "Worship at the Tar River" and "Responsibility" • Entropy

"Praise Song for My Mother's Lungs" EcoTheo Review

"The Last Summer of Innocence" Frontier Poetry

2020

"Summer in Montpeyroux"The Split Mind (print)

"Stop Being So Jealous of the Creatures" • Indolent Books

"How We Write the World to Life Again" • Indolent Books

"Quarantine Inventory" • Indolent Books

2019

"Her Beak Inside Me" • fields magazine

"Every Day Ask Yourself" • Hematopoiesis Press

"Divorce Dance" • The Indianapolis Review

2018

"When They Come for My Blood" • Rust + Moth

"How to Make it Beautiful" • Rust + Moth

2017

"Hurricane Season, 1999" • Black Napkin Press

"Kamikaze Discovered in Montpellier" • The Ocotillo Review • Pushcart Prize nominated

"Questions for My Mother" • Winter Tangerine