Creative Writing
Published Poetry
Chapbook
Teaching My Daughter My Language (Pudding House Publications, Fall 2005).
Poems published separately in journals or anthologies, in order by acceptance date, most recent first
Death Row Cook - Res Ipsa, the Capital University Law School newspaper (May 2007)
Locust Pods - forthcoming in the Cap City Poets, an anthology of Central Ohio poets. This poem is also forthcoming in Pudding Magazine and made its first appearance in my chapbook Teaching My Daughter My Language.
Adopted People - Parting Gifts (Summer 2007)
Anticipating My Father's Death - Parting Gifts (Summer 2007)
Dance of My Forefathers - Parting Gifts (Summer 2007)
The Plagiarist Speaks - Parting Gifts (Summer 2007)
She Said (a haiku) - Parting Gifts (Summer 2007)
Eve's Curse - forthcoming in Bleeding on the Page: Women Writing About Menstruation, an anthology of contemporary women writing about menstruation.
Woodsman - forthcoming in Peripatetic Poets Reading Series
Sin-Eater - eye (Issue #4, forthcoming)
Measuring the World - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
Locust Pods -- Inspired by a Homeless Friend Sitting on a Bench - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
Kiss Me Again -- Now I'm Talking About Addiction, Now I'm Talking About Sex - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
Fellatio Poem #1: Fellatio Is a Pretty Word - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
Teaching My Daughter My Language - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
[ Om ] Passion Flower Swimming Pool - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
O, Ruined Mouth - forthcoming in Pudding Magazine
I. Waves - Fetters' Run, the Ohio University - Lancaster Literary Magazine (Volume IV, Spring 2005)
Upon Leaving His Body, the Road Kill - published in Mangrove (2000, number 9)
November 1 - published in Ship of Fools, (Spring 1998, no. 41) -- This was at one time a favorite of mine, still cute I think.
Sand - published in Ship of Fools, (Spring 1998, no. 41)
Persephone - published in Ship of Fools, (Spring 1998, no. 41) -- It's hard to believe this one was ever published. They took everything I sent them! I was a little peeved they took so many, but it's not as if the poems would have gotten published elsewhere either because of my not submitting them or because they were fair to middling in quality.
After the Collapse of a Building - published in Lullwater Review, Emory University (Volume IV, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1993) and one of my favorites, dedicated to Sonny Schoen.
Pygmalion's Statue - published in Lullwater Review, Emory University (Volume III, Number 3, Summer 1992)
Helen to the Sea - published in So to Speak, A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1992).
Iphigenia the Night Before (Dream to Electra) - published in So to Speak, A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1992) -- Try not to think too much when you read this. It's very good if you take the sensations as they come. Since few know the story of Iphigenia (Electra's sister, sacrificed to the cause), I never expected anyone to think about it.
The Laurel Tree - published in Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Fall/Winter 1991-2, Volume 21, Number 1) - A good one for readings.
Penelope To Her Loom (30 Years Later) - third place 1991 Virgina Downs award, published in Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 20, Numbers 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1991) -- it won money, it must be good ;-)
David - published in Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 20, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1990) -- This piece makes me realize my early material was less pretenscious then my some of stuff at GMU. I see certain lines in the GMU material and cringe.
Paper People in the Fall - published in The Plum Creek Review, Oberlin College Student Journal (Number 41, Spring 1989)
There were two minor publications before those listed here. One was in an underground journal at Oberlin Zeitgeist; the poem was a trippy piece and I never actually saw it in print. A friend of a friend shook his head and told me the whole journal had many typos. The other was called "Recovered" and was included in a desktop publication by this guy who worked at the hotel which housed the only bar in Oberlin. "Recovered" -- ah, now that's a poem I hope never surfaces.
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