POEMS

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RECENT POEMS ONLINE

​We Do Our Best Work in the Dark (The Shore)
Machine as Well-Oiled Girl (The Shore)
Mother as Haunting, as Mourning Dove (Birdcoat Quarterly)
You are my lucky star. (Verse Daily)

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FULL LIST OF PUBLISHED POEMS​

​POEMS in micro-anthologies
"This house has many hearts," "They linger in a perpetual dream state," & "Now clear your minds—​it knows what scares you" in Haunted, edited by Nicci Mechler, Porkbelly Press (2022).
Limited edition, hand-bound. "We asked for work rooted in the imagery & language of haunting, incorporating all manner of them: ghosts, people, places—things persistently present, things that occupy the mind and refuse to let go, from language to memory to specter."

"Trespass," "Trade," and "Tremble" in Bramble & Thorn, edited by Nicci Mechler & Ashley Blake, Porkbelly Press (2017).
Limited edition, hand-bound. "We ask you to step into the dark forest with us, with these women and girls in poem—their sharp knives, those long fangs may protect you. Reach out—take the hand of the one beside you. Don't worry if she seems hungry; she's always hungry; she has her mind already made, blade sharpened to meet the wolf's heart."

"Girl as C&P Platen Press" in LadyBody: A Micro-Anthology of Vibrator-Friendly Poetry, edited by Emma Sovich, Graveyard House Press.
Limited edition, letterpress-printed and hand-bound in deluxe box. "Sometimes I find it hard to love my body. After my Great Uterine Rebellion of 2014, I wanted to curate positivity for LadyBody. I asked for poems 'intended to be read with easy access to a vibrator.' Not necessarily erotica, these poems are wild and classy, tongue-in-cheek, thrilling, loud, delicate, uproarious. They celebrate lady bodies and lady minds."

POEMS in books on the craft of creative writing
"Self-Portrait as Psychopomp" in The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma, edited by Jehanne Dubrow, University of New Mexico Press (forthcoming 2025).
Under contract with the University of New Mexico Press, this accessible craft book will provide both new and accomplished poets with more than twenty practical strategies for representing and exploring trauma on the page. The Wounded Line will also include creative writing prompts, a series of best practices for writing for about trauma, as well as suggestions for further reading and research.

​VISUAL POEMS in literary magazines & journals​​

• “(hooded skullcap / plate 171),” “(false dragonhead / plate 170),” “(jack-in-the-pulpit / plate 2),” “(round-leaved sundew & venus flytrap / plate 74),” and “(swamp pink / plate 35)” in ​Duende, States of Mind Issue (Spring 2018).
• ​“(lady’s thumb / plate 45)” and “(nightshade & bittersweet / plate 173)” in Dream Pop Press, Issue 3 (Winter 2018).

​POEMS in literary magazines & journals​

• "Fairywife" in Corvid Queen (forthcoming 2024).
• "The Quantum Mechanics of Missing Girls," "Self-Portrait as Recurring Dream," and "Self-Portrait as Night Swimming" in Epiphany (Summer 2023).
• "In Captivity, a Bored Octopus Will Eat Her Own Arms" in Copper Nickel (Fall 2022).
• "We were wondering if you had experienced any disturbances lately." in Puerto del Sol, Issue 56.1 (Fall 2021). 
• "Machine as Well-Oiled Girl" and "We Do Our Best Work in the Dark" in The Shore, Issue 10 (Summer 2021). "Machine as Well-Oiled Girl" nominated for Best of the Net 2021​.
• "Girl as Vandercook 4 Proof Press," "This house has many hearts," and "Now clear your minds—it knows what scares you." in Construction (Fall 2020).
• "Girl as Pantone Matching System" in New South, Issue 13.1 (Spring 2020). 
• "On Forensic Files, Husbands Kill Wives & Wives Kill Husbands" & "They linger in a perpetual dream state." in Plume, Issue 103: "5 under 35 plus" feature (March 2020). 
• "Mother as Haunting, as Mourning Dove" in Birdcoat Quarterly (March 2020). Nominated for Best of the Net 2020​. 
• "Presswife" in Gulf Coast, Issue 32.1 (Winter/Spring 2020).
• "You are my lucky star." in The Cincinnati Review, Issue 15.2 (Winter 2019). Reprinted at Academy of American Poets (Summer 2019) & Verse Daily​ (Spring 2020).
• "Wait a minute, there's movement. It seems to have life—organic life." in Passages North, Issue 39 (Spring 2018). Nominated for Best New Poets 2018.
• ​"What's the story, Mother?" and "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?" in The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought (Fall 2017). 
• "Girl with Cloven Feet," "Trade," and "Trigger" in Faerie Magazine, Issue 36 (Autumn 2016).
• "Forestry (parts 1-3)" in Fairy Tale Review: The Ochre Issue (2016). Winner of the 2015 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Contest, judged by Joyelle McSweeney.
• "Do you spook easily, Starling?" and "Interlude (again)" in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 83.1 (Winter 2016).
• "Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling?" and "Look at him, Starling. Tell me what you see." in Tinderbox Poetry Journal (October 2015).
• "That is rather slippery of you, Agent Starling," "How do we begin to covet, Clarice?," and "Have the lambs stopped screaming?" in Third Point Press, Issue 2 (September 2015).
• "Fevvers (Authenticating the Cockney Venus)" in Sugar House Review, Issue 10 (December 2014).
• from "Atomic Age" in The Lumberyard, Issue 11 (October 2014).
• "Girl with no Hands" and "Interlude" in The Feminist Wire (June 2014).
• "Tornado Alley Love Song" and "Girl who Gave Birth to an Apple" in The Wolf Skin (April 2014).
• "Dorothy" in Fairy Tale Review: The Emerald Issue (2014).
• "Foxwife" and "Stepmother" in Midway Journal (October 2013).
• "[Prospectus:]," "Shirley Jackson is an Advice Columnist for the Bennington Banner," and "Atomic Age 1" in wicked alice (October 2013).
• from "Imago" in decomP (April 2013). 
• "Women and Children First" and "Red market" in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review (Fall 2012).
• "Vespers" and "Studies in Still-Life" in The Coachella Review (Fall 2011).