Publications
2025
“On My Way to See You” in The Offing
“Ode to Sending Light” in Your Impossible Voice (Best of the Net nominee)
“Ode to My Friend’s Daughter”; “Ode to Chromatic Coping”; and “Ode to the Speaker” in Diode Poetry
“Suggestions for Candle Names After Visiting Iran” in Josephine Quarterly
“Ode to My Beautiful Veins” in Ploughshares
2024
“ColosseOde” (Pushcart Prize nominee) and “Ode to Healing” in Arts & Letters
“Ode to Pot” in Pangyrus
2023
“Ode to the Women Accused of Exaggerating” and “Some Time After Empathy Had Drained” in Hunger Mountain Review (Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Ode to the loghmeh” in New Orleans Review (Best New Poets nominee)
“Clouded Sulphur” in Best Spiritual Literature (Orison Books)
“Ode to Hands ” in Palette Poetry
2022
“In Praise of This Fear” and “Clouded Sulphur” in The Cincinnati Review
“Same Shade” in Kaleidoscoped
2021
“Mean Poem about Lavender to Comfort My Beloved” in The Indianapolis Review
“Anxiety Ablution” and “House Finch” in crazyhorse
“Twenty Minutes at Manhattan Beach” and “Women Who Run” in Saint Ann’s Review
“Hot Draft;” “Mount Sinai Hospital;” and “In Defense of Volumizing” in The Georgia Review
2020
“Isfahan, 2010” in The Best American Poetry 2020
“Ode to the Good Wi-FI” in NAILED
2019
“Bruise” in New England Review (Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Still Floats” in NASA’s First Light
“Weak Ode to Saffron” in Frontier Poetry
“Baggage” in Nat. Brut.
“I Gave Him the Moon” in Salamander
“Eve Apologizes Again” in Juked
“Isfahan, 2010” in Michigan Quarterly Review
“Can You Remove Your Necklace During Work Hours?” in Lunch Ticket
2018
“io” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Poetry Suite: “The Opening”; “Red Peacocks”; “Joon”; “A Word of Advice to the Host From her Parasite”; “First Room”; “Ode to a Baby’s Palms”; and “First Room” in NAILED
“Quick Question for a Palm Weevil” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“50:16” in Waxwing
“Depression Diagnosed the Vegan” in Crab Fat magazine
“Because Just in Case” in Stirring Lit
2017
“Bad News for Bigots” in Atticus Review (Best New Poets Nominee)
Poetry Suite: “After the Antidepressants Stopped Working”; “Everything about Fireflies Has Already Been Said”; “This Was for Tiphys”; “Baby Timpani”; and “While Watching the Protestors Saturday Morning” in Mud Season Review (Best of the Net Nominee)
“Red Fox” in Word Fountain
“Explaining Anxiety to a Stoic” in Tupelo Quarterly
“Small” in Painted Bride Quarterly
“T4” in Cleaver
“Thank You Letter to Hava” in Nashville Review
“Organs”; “Grateful”; and “Black Dog” in Menacing Hedge
“Uncertified” in The Margins
“Relapse” in Slush Pile magazine
“O” in The Boiler
“Hagar” in New South
“Dandelion’s Revenge” in Pembroke magazine (Best New Poets nominee)
“Overcast” in Reunion: The Dallas Review
2016
“Vengeance” in Gingerbread House (Best New Poets Nominee)
“Wisteria” and “October” in Talking Writing (Best of the Net nominee)
“Defector” in Natural Bridge
“Solace” in Foliate Oak
“Word Makers” in Pinch Journal
“For Blotchy, the Octopus that Stayed While Inky Escaped” in Split Rock Review
“Grape” in Rogue Agent Journal
“Return” in Really System