[poems]
“Three Weeks After We Quit Believing” in Epiphany
[pancakes, Iggy Pop, Eucharist sacrilege]
“The Night We Quit Believing” in Booth
[hot fudge sundaes, circle pits, blasphemy]
“New in Town” in Your Impossible Voice
[three poems about being new in town, each called “New in Town”]
“Two Birds, No Stone” in Wild Roof Journal
[unironic faith in human goodness]
“Secret Beach Pyre Glimpsed from a Cliff” in Pangyrus
[based on a true story]
“Grief” in Poetry South
[a sonnet about baseball (first and last time)]
“Goblin Girl Summer” in Florida Review
[Arizona summers, heat-induced hallucinations, summer crushes]
“What Makes a Prophet” in Emerson Review
[fathers, Job, redemption]
“Yesterday is” and “Somewhere Between Childhood & Your Vertical Abandoning You” in Good Life Review
[grandmothers, empires, fistfuls]
“My Mother Forgets the Word for Mercy” in Ghost City Review
[pretty straightforward title]
“In the Stairwell of the Museum of Modern Art” in Qu Magazine
[Joni Mitchell, Salvador Dali, wanderlust]
[non-fiction]
“Birds and Stones and Me and You” in Wild Roof Journal
[life & grief, love & genocide]
“Six Stages of an Ex-Catholic” in Stoneboat Journal
[childhood Catholicism, adolescent atheism, property damage]
“If You are a Writer and Grieving” in Barely South Review
[Joan Didion & the pressures of literary grief]
“Rational and Revolutionary Grief” in Devastation Baby
[the politics of communal grief]
[fiction]
“Branches” in Waxing & Waning [soon!]
[man gets bad news, injures self stabbing tire with screwdriver]
“Pill Poppers Playground” in I-70 Review [soon!]
[small-town mayor moonlights as hospice center drug lord]
“In Someone Else’s Hands” in Downtime Review
[family buys Christmas tree, falls apart before it’s in the car]