Poems

poems forthcoming in Diode, Southern Humanities Review

The Atlantic:
“Postcards from the Living”

Tin House:
“Point At Which Parallel Waves Converge & From Which Diverge”

ZYZZYVA:
“Little Fires,” “The Next Great American Love Story”

Rattle:
“Dissonance,” “Machine Learning“

Bellevue Literary Review:
“Distribution“* [Listen]

SWWIM:
“What Grows in the Desert” [featured in Frontier Poetry]

Midst:
“When This Is All Over“

The Intima:
“Writing Elegies Like Robert Hass“*

The Racket:
“This is an Instagram poem“*

San Francisco Chronicle:
“The Wave“

SFPL:
“Contingencies“

Figure 1:
“Commonalities“

MiGoZine:
“About Face“

Talking Writing:
“Hello, Brother“

JuxtaProse:
“Sun Setting on San Francisco,” “Habits“

Atticus Review:
“The Way Love Expires,”** “How men deal” [Watch], “Transplant” [Watch], “Normal,” “Magnificent Things”

…an eclectic writer of great talent and broad subject matter who serves up poetry with a lyrical and narrative focus that, much like an obsidian knife, presents a dark edge about a thousand times sharper than a scalpel.

Michael Meyerhofer, Poetry Editor of Atticus Review

sPARKLE&BLINK (64, 69):
“Telomeres and a 2AM (Love) Poem” [Watch], “Circe in the Mirror” [Watch], “I Am Yi-Fen Chou” [Watch], “The Magnificent Capacity of Two Fireflies” [Watch]

Fearsome Critters:
“We will die beautifully in the way of stars,” “A Kind of Flattery,” “Sometimes I remember,” “Psalm,” “Seat 23A”

Spry:
“Angles“

The Quotable:
“Brother“

Cactus Heart:
“Cactus Heart“

Tell Me Again (anthology):
“Letters to My Mother,” “Playing Dead,” “The Last Visitation”

Tabula Rasa:
“Radiation“

The Vanderbilt Review:
“Casino,” “Call and Response,” “Dear Steve,” “Decision Making,” “Laboratory Observations”

*nominated for Pushcart Prize
**nominated for Best of the Net