P O E T R Y
Hayden’s Ferry Review (ASU, 2022)—“The Eyes of the Scallops” from issue 24, 1999 has been included in A Promise of Water: a compelling anthology of water-themed poems from past issues (back to ‘86), curated by Erin Peters. The collection also includes work by Rita Dove, Mary Ruefle, Carl Phillips, Sally Ball, Oliver de la Paz, Kazim Ali and others.
In volume 24.2 of the San Diego-based Cider Press Review —"Whole Lotta Love,” a poem about rock ‘n’ roll’s incursion into 70s domestic order. June 1, 2022
Two music-related poems, “Fearing Street” & “Song of the Jet” in issue No. 5 of Book of Matches literary journal. May 1, 2022
Four poems: “Skiff Hill,” “Language,” “Poem About Walden Pond Without Any Mention of Thoreau,” & “The New Bathymetry” in Cutleaf October 14, 2021
“Orient Point” & “Two of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django” Birmingham Poetry Review, Spring 2021 number 48
“Evidence of The Journey” featured on Poetry Daily and on “What Poetry Sparks—Delineated: Prose Writers on Poetry.” Read fiction writer Paul Yoon’s short essay about the poem.. March 22, 2021.
"Fish Brook” & “Driving Past the Properties I Landscaped as a Teenager” Ploughshares, Issue 47.1, Spring 2021
“Canoe” Split Rock Review Issue 16, March 2021
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize— “Surface Fugue: Clark’s Island, Wampanoag Bowl, Carcharodon Carcharias” New England Review, Volume 40, #3, September, 2019
"Elegy: Letter to My Wife's Grandfather (Canadian Artillery, 1917)," AGNI No. 85, 2017
from "Crab Studies" (5. Libinia Emarginata Common Spider Crab) The Adroit Journal Issue Nineteen, January 2017
"Meditation" The Southwest Review Vol. 101, No. 3, 2016
"Contrapunctus (#2") Southeast Review Volume 34, No.1, 2016 (finalist for the 2015 Gearhart Poetry Prize)
"Sheep May Safely Graze" Ecotone (The Sound Issue) Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall 2015
"Triptych: Portrait at Fifteen with Dog Swimming in Foreground" Salamander No. 41, Fall|Winter 2015-16. Click HERE to see the poem, an associative memoir and close reading of the photograph below.
"Song of the Jet" finalist for the Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Award, 2015
"Giant Nazi Flag Escapes from an Attic Vodka Box" The Southampton Review Vol. IX No. 2, 2015
"Two Short Films of My Father" Harvard Review No. 47, 2015
from "Crab Studies"—"Fiddler Crabs" Glassworks Issue 10, Spring 2015
"The Narrows: Lake George, 1969" & "Contrapunctus (#1)" AGNI No. 80, 2014
"Children Driving" Southern California Review ("In Transit" issue) Volume VII, 2014
"Tunnel, Regent's Canal" Crab Creek Review Volume 1, 2014 (Finalist for the 2013 Crab Creek Poetry Contest)
"San Fernando Valley" Zócalo Public Square August 12, 2013
"Boys Riding Bicycles to School" The American Poetry Review July/August 2013 (reprinted in NAIS/Independent School Magazine, "Teachers Who Write" —Winter 2017).
"Physical Fitness" The Prague Revue June 24, 2013
"Shinkawa's Problem" Zócalo Public Square June 14, 2013
"Beach Walk, 1972" Zócalo Public Square March 15, 2013
"Boys Playing Army in a Deserted Nursery" Zócalo Public Square February 1, 2013
Five Poems: "Elegy: Late August, Ipswich Bay", "To A Friend with Parkinson's", "Clandeboye Estate, County Down", "Shipyard Aubade" & "House After Children Have Left for College" The New Formalist January 12, 2013
"Violin" Memorious Number 16, April 2011
"The Cigarette Wheel: Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 1942" Memorious Number 12, June 2009
"After the Shark" & "Wind Indicators" Sea Change Issue 1, 2009
"Poem for Shostakovich (Beginning with a Fragment from Blake)" Ellipsis Vol. 44, 2008
"An Azalea Blooms in the Murderer's Yard" The New Republic April 23, 2008
"Frozen Boat" Down East magazine December, 2007
"Loss Prevention" MARGIE: The Journal of American Poetry Vol. 6, 2007
"Monkey Efficacy" & "Prayer as Bomb" POETRY Vol. CXC No. 3 June 2007
"Refugees" & "Bathers at White Horse Beach" Salamander Vol. 12, No. 2, 2007
"Peconic" Hayden's Ferry Review Fall/Winter 2006-07
"Horns Unknown" POETRY Vol. CLXXXVIII No. 3 June 2006
"Banish Misfortune" Slate September 5, 2006
"Estuarine" POETRY Vol. CLXXXV No. 4 January 2005
"The People in the Story" Tiferet Vol. 2 No. 2 2005
"Double Nocturne" & "No River Road" POETRY Vol. CLXXXIII No. 5 February 2004
"High-Ranking Fugitive" The New Republic February 2, 2004
"Evidence of the Journey" POETRY Vol. CLXXXIII No. 1 October 2003
"Retirement: A Fragment" & "The Hayloft" Witness (Aging in America Issue) Vol. XVI No. 2, 2002
"Pigs Watered in Heat Wave" Witness (Animals in America Issue) Vol. XV No. 2, 2001
"Two Weasels" The Kenyon Review Vol. XXII Number 2, Spring 2000
"Continuing Demands" & "Your Friends Have Gone to Florida" POETRY Vol. CLXXIII No. 3 January 1999
"The Eyes of the Scallops" Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 24, Spring/Summer 1999
"Eeling" & "Stranger" Witness (American Families Issue) Vol. XII Number 2, 1998
“Bridge” In Posse Review
"Tenth Anniversary" & "Easter" Crab Creek Review Summer/Autumn 1998
"Refusal to Level the Peonies" The Southern Review Vol. 33 No. 1, Winter 1997
"Off Little Misery Island" Ploughshares Winter 1996-97
"Boatyard Mechanic" & "The Revolver" TriQuarterly Fall 1996
"Garage Meditation" & "Early Spring" Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 17, Fall/Winter 1995
"Coltrane and My Father" New England Review Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 1994
"The Overgrown Cranberry Bog" Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 13, Fall/Winter 1993
"Menemsha Texaco" Whetstone Volume 10, 1993
"Horse Meat" West No. 7, Summer 1992
"An Apple Freezes Miles Up" CQ/California State Poetry Quarterly Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1992
"The Stars" The G.W. Review Vol. XII No. 2 Spring 1992
"Cow's Neck" Sycamore Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1991
"Waders" Gray's Sporting Journal Vol. 16, Issue 4, Summer 1991
"I tell my sister why the fish hatchery looks empty" Gray's Sporting Journal Vol. 16, Issue 3, Spring 1991
"Radiation" Dominion Review Vol. 8, Spring 1990
"My Father Falling" The Black Fly Review No. 11, 1990
