PUBLICATIONS
​(Archive)
​POEMS PUBLISHED
  • 32 Poems, Vol. 43 (Summer 2024), 23-24. “The Agnostic’s Prayer”
  • 32 Poems, Vol. 43 (Summer 2024), online. "A Wolf in Sleep's Clothing" (lyric essay)
  • About Place Journal: (online) Volume VII, Issue IV, (October 2023), "Hellebore: Lenten Rose"
  • American Voice, “The Familiar Demons”
  • Ambergris, Vol. 5 (Autumn 1989), 14 – 15. “What the Blue Jay Said”
  • Antioch Review, 50:4 (November 1990), 731.  “The Phantom’s Sonnets”
  • Asheville Poetry Review, 25:1 (2018), 248-249. "Elegy Written in Fire"
  • Asheville Poetry Review, 25:1 (2018), 250. “Nocturne for the Apocalypse”
  • Asheville Poetry Review, Vol. 29:1, Issue 31 (2022), 101. “Altitude” 
  • Atlanta Review, Vol. XXIV, No. I (Fall/Winter 2017), 98-99. “Litany of ‘The Most Beautiful Suicide'”
  • Birmingham Poetry Review, Number 49 (Spring 2022), 123-124. "Anorexia Mirabilis: Catherine of Siena"
  • Black Warrior Review, 17:2 (Spring/Summer, 1991), 37 – 38.  “Magic”
  • Briar Cliff Review, The Vol. 29 (Spring, 2017), 54. “If There is Such a Thing as Mercy”
  • Briar Cliff Review, The, Vol. 31 (2019), 101. “Lazarus”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Fall, 2012), 38-39. “Falling”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Winter, 2014), 68-69.  “Cephalophores”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Summer, 2015), 44 - 45. “Centralia Mine Fire”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Spring, 2016), 27. “Dog / Buddha”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Spring, 2017), 31. “Luna Moth”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (Summer, 2019), 49. “Rapture”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (Summer 2020), 78. “The Central Story”
  • Catamaran, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (Summer 2021), 58. "Muse"
  • Catamaran, Vol. 10, Issue 4 (Fall 2022), 102. “After Wyeth”
  • Catamaran Literary Reader: Vol. 12, Issue 44, Spring 2024, 57. "Spring Peeper Gospel."
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 2 (Spring, 2013), Online.  “Candlemas, 1933”
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 2 (Spring, 2013), Online. “Cosmology”
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 2 (Spring, 2013), Online.  “The Left Hand of the Devil”
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 2 (Spring, 2013), Online.  “This is Not the Poem...”
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 2 (Spring, 2013), Online.  “Until the End of the World”
  • Chagrin River Review, Issue 10 (Spring, 2017), 71-73.  “Candlemas,1933”
  • Chariton Review, (1994), 25. “Leda”
  • Chariton Review, Vol. 40:2 (Fall/Winter 2017), 70 – 73. “Elegies in Spring”
  • Chariton Review, Vol. 40:2 (Fall/Winter 2017), 74 – 75. “Plunder”
  • Colorado Review, XVIII:2 (Fall/Winter, 1991), 111 – 112.  “Rehearsals”
  • Comstock Review, Vol. 30:2 (Fall/Winter 2016), 39. “Armageddon”
  • Comstock Review, Vol. 34:2 (Fall/Winter 2020), 8. “Lot’s Wife” (2nd Place, 2020 Muriel Craft Bailey Contest, Selected by Patricia Smith)
  • Crab Orchard Review, Volume 20, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 2015), 146-147.  "The Drowned Church of Potosí, Venezuela”
  • Crab Orchard Review, Volume 22: 1&2 (2018), 338-340. “Skeleton Lake”
  • Crazyhorse, No. 37 (Winter, 1989), 30 – 31.  “1965”
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal , Vol. V (2020), 34 - 35. “Magdalene” 
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal , Vol. VI (2021), 23. "Pieta, 1998"
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal,  ​Vol. VIII (2022), 106 - 107. “Judas: Triptych"
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. IX (2023) 15. “Turkey Buzzard Gospel”
    ​(Selected by Alexandria Peary, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, for Third Place in the 2023 Crosswinds Poetry Contest)
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume X (2024), 18. "The Whale" (Finalist: 2024 Crosswinds Poetry Contest - Judge: April Ossmann)
  • ​Cultural Weekly, 4 November, 2020 (online), “After the First Bite”
  • Cultural Weekly, 4 November, 2020 (online), "Vanished Twin”
  • Cultural Weekly, 4 November, 2020 (online), "Where There’s Smoke”
  • Ekphrasis, Vol. 6:2 (Fall/Winter, 2012), 19 - 20.  “The Astronomer”
  • Ekphrasis, Vol. 6:2 (Fall/Winter, 2012), 32 -33.  “Voices”
  • Ekphrastic Review, 10 October, 2019, (online), "Anatomical Venus"
  • Ekphrastic Review, 17 October, 2019, (online), "Ophelia" (originally appeared in The Journal - see separate listing)
  • Ekphrastic Review, 3 October 2021, (online), “Madonna and Child with Saint John”
  • Ekphrastic Review, 17 October 2021, (online), “Anorexia Mirabilis: Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi”
  • Fjords Review, 10 September 2015 (online) “Each Thing That Has Been Taken”
  • Free Lunch, Issue 6 (Autumn, 1990), 30 – 31.  “The Bard of Diseases”
  • Gettysburg Review, 7:3 (Summer, 1994), 425 – 429.  “Each Bone of the Body”
  • Gettysburg Review, 17:1 (Spring, 2004), 148 – 150.  “The Lily of Ecuador”
  • Gettysburg Review, 29:3 (Autumn, 2016), 438.  “A Kind of Benediction”
  • Gettysburg Review, 29:3 (Autumn, 2016), 439.  “To the Corpse of Alexander the Great”
  • Gettysburg Review, 30:4 (Winter, 2017), 528 - 530. “Laika”
  • Gettysburg Review: 34:1 (Autumn, 2022), 125. "Here in this churchyard where you've kept watch..." 
  • Gettysburg Review: 34:1 (Autumn, 2022), ​126 - 127. "Love Poem Written in Bone"
  • Great River Review, Issue 70 (Spring 2024), 61. "To the Cursed Fig Tree"
  • Green Briar Review, (September 2012), online.  “The End of All Flight”
  • Green Mountains Review, III:2 (Fall/Winter 1989-90), 52 - 53.  “Drowned Girl”
  • Green Mountains Review, III:2 (Fall/Winter 1989-90), 54 – 55.  “This is Not a Sad Poem”
  • Green Mountains Review, III:2 (Fall/Winter 1989-90), 56 – 57.  “The Cave of Saint Rita”
  • Green Mountains Review, VI:2 (Summer/Fall, 1993), 124 – 126.  “The Battersea Shield”
  • Green Mountains Review, VI:2 (Summer/Fall, 1993), 127.  “Halfway”
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review, 34 (Spring/Summer, 2004), 75.  “To Lucifer”
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review, 34 (Spring/Summer, 2004), 76 – 77.  “Mercy”
  • Hayden’s Ferry Review, 36 (Spring/Summer, 2005), 48 – 49.  “Blue”
  • Hole in the Head Review, Number 5, Issue 3: (Summer 2024), "Apocrypha: The Ram Considers Abraham”
  • Hole in the Head Review, Number 5, Issue 3: (Summer 2024), "John, The Beloved Disciple”
  • Hole in the Head Review, Number 5, Issue 3: (Summer 2024), "Lucifer, Falling”
  • Hole in the Head Review, Number 5, Issue 3: (Summer 2024), "My Mother’s Corpse”
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2019), 138-139. "Radiolucence" 
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2019), 133-134. "Reliquaries"
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2019), 140. "The Leper Tree" 
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2019), 131-132. "The Recording Angel" 
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2019), 136-137. "Waiting for Houdini's Ghost"
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2020), 147-148. “Rough Alchemy”
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2020), 149-150 “Immortality”
  • I-70 Review,  (Summer/Fall 2022), 169. “Faith"
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2022), 170. “Nocturne for an Unidentified Girl Found Murdered in a Field"
  • I-70 Review, (Summer/Fall 2022), 171.“Phantom Limb”
  • ​Indiana Review, 14:1 (Winter, 1990), 69. “The Grace of Conversion”
  • Indiana Review, 14:1 (Winter, 1990), 70 - 71.  “A Matter of Division” 
  • Indiana Review, 15:2 (Fall, 1992), 67 – 69.  “Indian Summer”
  • Indiana Review, 20:1 (Spring, 1997), 127 – 129.  “Insomnia”
  • Indianapolis Review, Issue 25 (Summer 2023) (online) “Evening Wind"
  • Inflectionist Review, Issue 12 (March 2021) “Anima Sola” 
  • Iowa Review, 21:3 (Fall, 1991), 146 – 147.  “Elegy, 1822”
  • Iowa Review, 21:3 (Fall, 1991), 146 – 148.  “For the Nameless Girl in the Photograph”
  • Iowa Review, 24:3 (Fall, 1994), 29 - 30.  “Necromancy”
  • Iowa Review, 24:3 (Fall, 1994), 31 - 32.  “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian”
  • Iowa Review, 27:2 (Spring, 1997), 158 - 159.  “Angels of Fire”
  • Iowa Review, 27:2 (Spring, 1997), 160 - 161.  “Like Water”
  • Iowa Review, 27:2 (Spring, 1997), 162 - 163. “The Binding of Isaac”
  • James Dickey Review, Vol: 33 (2017), 34 – 35. “Bullet in the Brain”
  • James Dickey Review, Vol: 33 (2017), 36 – 38. “Death’s Tailor”
  • James Dickey Review, Vol: 38 (2022), 71 - 72. “Cor Cordium”
  • James Dickey Review, Vol: 38 (2022), 73. “Icarus”
  • James Dickey Review, Vol: 38 (2022), 74 - 75. “Saint Fillan”
  • Kenyon Review, XVI:4 (Fall, 1994), 123 – 124.  “Alchemy”
  • Kenyon Review, XVI:4 (Fall, 1994), 125 – 126.  “Desire”
  • Kenyon Review, XVI:4 (Fall, 1994), 126 – 128.  “The Old Religion”
  • Kenyon Review, XIV:3 (Summer, 1992), 40 - 41.  “Halloween”
  • Kenyon Review, XIV:3 (Summer, 1992), 41 - 43.  “Sometimes the Dead” 
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 14 (Spring, 2010), 3-6.  “The Burning of Giordano Bruno”
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 17 (Spring, 2013), 113-115.  “Swallow”
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 20 (Spring, 2016), 122-123. “Caritas Romana”
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 23 (Spring, 2019), 41 - 42. “Rainbow Valley”
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 23 (Spring, 2019), 43 - 44. “Resurrection” 
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 23 (Spring, 2019), 38 - 40. “The Execution of Mata Hari”
  • Lake Effect, Vol: 25 (Spring, 2021), 45 - 47. “Afterward: Magdalene”
  • Lake Effect: Vol. 27, (Spring, 2023), 146. “Pietà: Father Mychal Judge"
  • Lily Poetry Review, forthcoming, "Still"
  • Lily Poetry Review, forthcoming, "Terracotta Army"
  • Louisville Review, 28 (Spring, 1990), 13. “Peregrine”
  • Louisville Review, 28 (Spring, 1990), 14. “Carousel Park”
  • Main Street Rag, 26:3 (Summer 2021), 58 - 59. “Nocturne on the Danube Promenade”
  • Memory Palace Anthology, The (Toronto, Canada, Ekphrastic Editions, 2024), 125. “In the Garden”
  • Memory Palace Anthology, The (Toronto, Canada, Ekphrastic Editions, 2024), 126. “Longfellow’s Beard”                                                                                                                                    
  • Mid-American Review, X:2 (1990), 17 – 18. “Fourth of July”
  • Mid-American Review, XV:1&2 (1995), 156 – 158. “Keats in Rome”
  • Mid-American Review, XVII:1 (1996), 93 – 97.  “Elegy for Wilde”
  • Mississippi Valley Review, XX:2 (Spring, 1991), 89 – 91.  “The Truth”
  • Missouri Review, XIII:3 (1991), 116 – 117.  “One Who Hears”
  • Missouri Review, XIII:3 (1991), 118 – 119. “Horse Latitudes”
  • Missouri Review, XIII:3 (1991), 120 – 121. “Against Darkness”
  • Night Heron Barks, The : (online)  (Spring, 2021) "Daphne, Again"
  • Night Heron Barks, The : (online)  (Fall, 2023), "What Light is Given"
  • North American Review, 300:2 (Spring, 2015), 4. “Dead Hummingbird”
  • North American Review, 300:4 (Fall, 2015), 40. “Maria Callas’ Tapeworm”
  • Oberon, Nineteenth Annual Issue (2021), 59 - 60.  "The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion"
  • Orchard Street Press, Ltd. (Summer, 2018), 16-17. "Edison's Last Breath"
  • Oxford Magazine, IV (Fall, 1989), 13. “Pentimento” 
  • Palette Poetry, (online) 11 November 2019. “Dirge”
  • Pedestal Magazine: (online) Issue 92 (Summer 2023), "Nesyamun"
  • Peregrine, VIII (Spring, 1989), 34 – 35.  “Saint Teresa’s Ecstasy”
  • Pietà, (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023), 9 – 11. “Emmett Till’s Casket”
  • Pietà, (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023), 12 – 13. “Joan of Arc” 
  • Pietà, (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023), 14 – 16. “Lazarus’s Wife”
  • Pietà, (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023), 37. “Spontaneous Human Combustion”
  • Pietà, (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023), 29 – 31. “Topsy”
  • Plume, (online) Issue 147 (November 2023), "Sarah Bernhardt's Coffin"
  • Plume, (online) Issue 147 (November 2023), Frank Paino on "Sarah Bernhardt's Coffin"
  • Poem-of-the-Week (30 August – 6 September, 2023). “Hells Gate,” “Stasis,” “Sokushinbutsu”
  • Poetry East, 31 (Spring, 1991), 79 - 81.  “Bridge”
  • Poetry East, 31 (Spring, 1991), 77 - 78.  “The Phenomenology of Roundness” 
  • Poetry Miscellany, (Spring/Summer, 1989), 12 – 13. “The Gown”
  • Poetry Miscellany, (Spring/Summer, 1989), 15 – 18.  “For David”
  • Poetry Miscellany, (Fall/Winter,1988), 34 – 35. “What the Heart Tells Us” 
  • Poetry Northwest, XXXIII:2 (Summer, 1991), 23 – 24.  “Out of Eden” 
  • Prairie Schooner, 67:3 (Fall, 1993), 101 - 102. “NDE”
  • Prairie Schooner, 67:3 (Fall, 1993), 102 - 104. “Once, Love, I Wanted Faith”
  • Prairie Schooner, 67:3 (Fall, 1993), 105.  “Pieta” 
  • Quarterly West, 36 (Winter 1992/93), 124 – 126.  “Pentecost:  Collingwood School Fire, Cleveland, 1908”
  • Raven’s Perch, 31 December 2023 (online). “Between Oneself and the World”
  • Raven’s Perch, 31 December 2023 (online). “I Have Been Half in Love…”
  • Raven’s Perch, 31 December 2023 (online). “Miserere for George Floyd”
  • Raven’s Perch, 31 December 2023 (online). “Pulmonary Edema”
  • River Heron Review, (online) Issue 5.2 (Autumn 2022), “Fiat to Autumn”
  • River Heron Review: (online) Issue 6.2 (1 August 2023), "Saint Giles' Doe"
  • Rust + Moth, (online) (Summer 2022), “Benediction: Whale Fall"
  • Rust + Moth, (online) (Winter 2023), “Upon Being Buried with My Twin"
  • ​South Florida Poetry Journal: (Issue 28, February 2023 - online), “Pieta: Thích Quảng Đức (11 June 1963)”
  • ​Spoon River Quarterly, XV:2 (Spring, 1990), 8 - 9.  “The Wisdom of the Body”
  • Spoon River Quarterly, XV:2 (Spring, 1990), 10 - 11.  “Walkingstick” 
  • Spoon River Quarterly, XV:2 (Spring, 1990), 12. “Nude”
  • Taos Journal of Poetry, (online) Issue 13: 2 November 2023. "Nocturne for My Final Breath"
  • Taos Journal of Poetry, (online) Issue 13: 2 November 2023. "The Forest"​
  • Terrain.org:  (online) 5 February 2024, "The Griffon Vulture's Prayer"
  • The Journal, 18:2 (Fall, 1994), 53. “Ophelia”
  • The Journal, 29:1 (Spring/Summer, 2005), 102 – 103. “Filia Luminis”
  • Valparaiso Poetry Review, XXI:2 (Spring/Summer 2020) “For a Couple Who Died Two Days Apart”
  • Verse Daily, 20 October 2020. "Dog/Buddha." Originally appeared in Catamaran.
  • Verse Daily, 4 November 2021. "Nocturne on the Danube Promenade." Originally appeared in Main Street Rag.
  • Whiskey Island, (Summer, 1988), 40. “Ariel”
  • World Literature Today, 89:3-4 (May - August 2015), 51. “Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory”
  • World Literature Today, September 2015 (online), “Taxonomy”
  • World Literature Today, 93: 1 (Summer, 2019) Online Edition, "52"
BOOKS
  • Dark Octaves (Fayetteville, NC: Longleaf Press) forthcoming 14 April 2025!
  • Pietà (chapbook) (Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2023) Available Now!
  • Obscura (Asheville, NC: Orison Books, 2020)
  • Out of Eden (Cleveland: Cleveland State University Press, 1997)
  • The Rapture of Matter (Cleveland:  Cleveland State University Press, 1991)
 
ANTHOLOGIES
  • Breaking into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings, Forthcoming, Fall 2025 (Texas Review Press)
  • Memory Palace Anthology, The (Toronto, Canada, Ekphrastic Editions, 2024), 125 & 126. “In the Garden” & "Longfellow's Beard"
  • The Best Spiritual Literature, Vol. 8: (Asheville, NC, Orison Books, 2023), 50 - 51. "Judas: Triptych"
  • The Power of the Feminine "I", Vol. I (anthology), (Threshpress Midwest, USA, 2024), "Anorexia Mirabilis: Mary Magdalene de Pazzi," (369-370), "Pieta: Isis & Osiris" (218), "The Grace of Conversion," (367-368)
  • Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems (Asheville, NC, Orison Books, 2023), 40 - 41. “After the First Bite”
  • And Blue Will Rise Over Yellow: An International Poetry Anthology for Ukraine, ed: John Bradley (Austin, Texas, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023): 70-71. "Pieta: Madonna of Mariupol, Ukraine"
  • Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works, ed. William Walsh (Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Co., Inc., 2023), 192 - 195. "Writing My Obsessions"
  • Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose (Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 2021), 173 - 178. “Out of Eden,” “The Grace of Conversion,” “The Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory”
  • Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight, ed. Julie Swarstad Johnson & Christopher Cokinos (Phoenix: The University of Arizona Press, 2020), 14 - 16. "Laika" 
  • The Face of Poetry, ed. Zack Rogow, (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2006), 323 – 332.  “The Truth,” “Each Bone of the Body” 
  • Under the Rock Umbrella, ed. William Walsh, (Macon:  Mercer University Press, 2006), 261 – 266.  “Each Bone of the Body,” “Leda”
  • Cleveland in Prose and Poetry, ed. Bonnie Jacobson, (Cleveland:  League Books, 2005),  72 - 73.  “For the Nameless Girl in the Photograph”
  • Poets of the New Century, ed.  Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson, (Boston:  David R. Godine, 2001), 264 – 268.  “The Old Religion,” “The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian,” “Alchemy”
  • American Poetry:  The Next Generation, ed. Gerald Costanso and Jim Daniels, (Pittsburgh:  Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000), 294 - 298.  “The Truth,” “A Matter of Division,” “1965”
  • Four Way Reader #2, ed. Carlen Arnett, Jane Brox, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Martha Rhodes, (Four Way Books: 1997), 210 – 219.  “Each Bone of the Body,” “Pentecost:  Collingwood School Fire, Cleveland, 1908,” “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian,” “Sometimes the Dead”
  • New American Poets of the 90’s, ed. Roger Weingarten and Jack Myers, (Boston:  David R. Godine, 1991), 284 - 288. “Horse Latitudes,” “The Truth”
  • Pushcart Prize XV, Best of the Small Presses, 1990 ~ 1991, ed. Bill Henderson, (Wainscott:  The Pushcart Press, 1990), 365 – 365.  “What the Blue Jay Said”
  • Poets for Life, ed. Michael Klein, (New York: Crown Publishers, 1989), 192 - 193.  “For David”
ESSAYS
  • Gettysburg Review, 35:1 (Winter, 2023), 179-180. "A Message from a Lesser Light"
BOOK REVIEWS