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Poetry |
Books:
Bloom in Reverse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)
The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editors' PrizeBroadside:
After Twelve Months, Someone Tells Me It’s Time to Join the Living, The Center for Book Arts, 2009
Poems in Journals/Publications:
5 AM: "The Exactness of Birds"
The American Poetry Review: "After Twelve Months, Someone Tells Me It’s Time to Join the Living," "Confession," "Eating is an Act of Optimism," "Narcissists Anonymous," "She Said: It’s Not That Things Bring Us to Tears, but Rather There are Tears in Things," "To the Next in Line"
The American Poetry Review's Philly Edition: "Can't," "Don't," "This Moment"
Barrow Street: "The Double Ds of Desire and Despair"
Cipher: "Poem Ending With"
Cleaver Magazine: "Miniature," "Poem Ending with Six Words from a Women's Room Stall"
The Country Dog Review: "Virginia Farm Haunting"
Crab Orchard Review: "I Have Drinks with My Dead Friend's Ex-Boyfriend," "Memory is a Kind of Broken Promise," "Suicide is a Mind Stripping Petals Off Flowers"
Edison Literary Review: "Happy Holidays"
Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo (Wavertree Press, 2011): "Virginia Farm Haunting"
E-Verse Radio: "Daylilies"
The Florida Review: "Daylilies," "My Friend Asks What I've Been Doing Lately, and by This She Means Men"
The Fox Chase Review: "Earth, Hair, Fire, Water," "Fly Haiku"
Italian Americana: "First Kiss"
La Petite Zine: "Given," "Leavings," "Saturn"
Literal Latté: "Force"
Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry (NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005): "Anniversary"
New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Star Cloud Press, 2011): "P.S."
New Orleans Review: "Chance Encounter"
Owner Operator: "No Atheists"
Painted Bride Quarterly: "Junkie," "The Heart Has the Capacity to Break and Reset a Million Times," "The Lasting," "Online Dating"
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Love as the Circle-to-Land Approach," "Love at the End of the 20th Century," "No Atheists"
Ploughshares: "Yes But" (special emerging writers' issue; nominated and introduced by Stephen Dunn)
Poetry: "The World According to Narcissus"
Poetry Daily: "New Year," "The World According to Narcissus"
The Portable Boog Reader Philadelphia: "Move"
Schuylkill Valley Journal: "Callback," "Cocktail," "Nine Man," "One-Night Stand, Saigon, Vietnam"
Tampa Review: "Into the Salvage Yard"
Verse Daily: "Narcissists Anonymous," "After Twelve Months, Someone Tells Me It's Time to Join the Living"
Waywiser Press web: "Call Across the Seasons," "P.S."
Women’s Review of Books: "P.S.," "Song of Woo with a Hole in It"
Xconnect: "Either Side of the Mason-Dixon," "Lingual," "The One Narcissus Almost Loved," "Outtakes/Intakes," "Storm Door," "Unsayable," "Vanishing Point," "The Visit"