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AVAILABLE NOW!
2024 LONGLEAF PRESS BOOK PRIZE WINNER

Forthcoming (journals):

  • Terrain, "The First Noble Truth" (Winter 2026)
  • I-70 Review, "The Sin Eater" (September 2026)

​Forthcoming (anthologies):

Breaking into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings, Texas Review Press. "The Burning of Giordano Bruno" (Fall 2025)
Twenty Years of Poem of the Week.com, Madville Publishing, Lake Dallas, TX. "Rough Alchemy" (Fall 2025)
The Best Spiritual Literature, 2025, Orison Books, Asheville, NC. "The Agnostic's Prayer." (Winter 2025)

Upcoming Readings:

  • In person - w/ Daniel Lassel, Mary Barbara Moore, and Art Stringer        
    6 November 2025, 6PM - 8PM 
    Cicada Books, 604 14th St W, Huntington, WV 25704   681.378.3463
  • Online - The Inflectionist Review
    30 March 2026 - (5PM to 6PM PST)
  • Online - Verse Virtual
    15 April 2026 (5 PM to 6PM 
    PST)

Current Work Appears In:


  • Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 13, Issue 3 (Fall 2025), 100. "To enter the kingdom"
  • Lily Poetry Review, Issue 13 (Spring, 2025), 62 – 63. "Still”
  • Lily Poetry Review, Issue 13 (Spring, 2025), 60 – 61."Terracotta Army"