Poems

THE TEMZ REVIEW (2022)

• Read: fool’s gold

CAROUSEL (2021)

• Read: Oyster Night (and recording)

FREEFALL (2020)
Annual Literary Contest, Judge: Gary Barwin

• Judge’s Comments: “Curmudgeon is a vivid, visceral, toady slimepond of a poem, rich in invention and oozing accuracy—witty (“this bullfrog is thick as a grown man’s fist/ / and tony-soprano-tough”) and with images that slice unforgettably through the brain (“His whole body’s an open mouth / flipped inside out.”) Evoking the early Seamus Heaney’s bog-ripe play of sounds, this poem is a slurry which abounds in the meat-sweaty mouth, a call to moist arms for the self-satisfied curmudgeon in all of us.”

• Read: Curmudgeon, winner

• Read: Shark Teeth, shortlist

UNTETHERED (2019)

• Read: Pitting Cherries

• Read: Losing our Marbles

FREEFALL (2018)

• Read: Weaning Off Anti-Depressant, Early Days, shortlist 2017 Annual Literary Contest

FREEFALL (2017)

• Read: angelfood cake

• Read: veronica lake

PRAIRIE FIRE (2016)

• Read: red tide

• Read: coming of age

ROOM (2015)

• Read: Mercurybomb

ROOM (2014)

• Read: various cuts

FREEFALL (2013)

• Read: starfish