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POEMS

In Berkeley Poetry Review
In Pictura
In BRUISER
In Juked
In SUSAN / The Journal

In Spry Literary Journal
In ​Powder Keg
In Litbreak ("Birthday"  nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
In Rust + Moth
In SOFTBLOW
In Eunoia Review


SCHOLARSHIP

“‘What Is Here and Now in the World’: Larry Eigner’s Perceptual Place Making.” Published in Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, edited by Jennifer Bartlett and George Hart (University of New Mexico Press, 2020).

JOURNALISM

"The Textbook Case," published in In These Times (August 2010).
"Out of the Shadows, Into the Spotlight," published in In these Times (July 2010).
"Got Raw Milk?" published in In These Times (June 2010).
"Evergreen's Road to Rifles: Are the State College's Guns Not Big Enough?" Cover story published in the Weekly Volcano (May 2009).
"Nobody Hates the Water: Turning Points for Olympia's Artesian Treasure," published in the Weekly Volcano (May 2009).

COLLABORATIONS

I asked my friend Dave Jordan to do some reverse ekphrasis with some of my poems: that, is, create images inspired by poems, rather than the other way around. These are the amazing artworks he created, along with the poems he drew them for. 
Coming Alive
​
dry bones
turn over
make the fresh water
hot again
god's dead creatures
boiling alive
to eat honey
off the comb
stick wildflowers
up their nose
bring clover
to their mouth
​as they all fall
back from heaven
a mount hushed
in a dream
brittle skeletons
rubbing rosewood oil
to make a skin
gleam again
Picture
Picture
Get-Down
 
get down
from that story
the mulch
twitching
as if asking
 
to be foraged
intoned
upbeat
unbridled
as if a horse
 
or an image of a horse
 
is it decadent
this ceaseless
parsing
of reference
and referent
 
the responsibility
to master
be mastered
see
hooves
 
where rider and saddle have disappeared
the human referents fall away
 
can you read
what has not been written
yes—it’s all been
gristled
and knowing
 
there are only horses
where the human should have been
 
get down that ghost saddle
get down that rusted carriage
they went south with the burning lanterns
 
this is the endpoint the horse
rears into a shadow of a man with horns

​Softness
​

soften my
mouth
weave the
smell
clamor to the
thigh
wet
its rebellion
flood
the decisions
to dispatch
a moan
was that
pleasure
indeed
or just
a wire
humming
in me
Picture
Picture
Dark
 
rain laden
the palm
black with
water
a quarter
finger opening
its vein
to let
the water in
with the smell
of pine
this memory
makes itself
a cloud
passing over
and away
​Country
 
backwoods blare
across America
rags and scraps
shuffle
the natural order
toughened
to a dull knife
pounding the soil
until flowers bloom
spring’s illusion
of change
thick
orange petals
cut blue
the sky
open
shut the white
clouds
occlude
a memory
rage sharpening
against skin
metal
with nowhere
to go
not cut
not
cut
a dead woman
lives
tulips sprout
spread a wash
of color
where her hair
had been
America has conquered
this tragedy
the silver lining
a stately state
where green grass
grows
the backwoods
gathering up
the weeds
Picture
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