Writing

POETRY & CREATIVE PROSE

• "Kay (Johnson)," "HD (Doolittle)," "Maureen (Owen)." The Brooklyn Rail. September 2025.

• “Paper Cut.” Long News: Poetry & Poetics, Issue #2, Fall 2025.

• “Dear Barb, Dear Ty.” A poetic collage of bits and pieces form Tyrone’s letters to me, 1982-1991. Written for a memorial at Poet’s House. Published in Long News: Poetry & Poetics, Issue #1, Spring 2025.

• “On Going Home: Remembering Tyrone Williams.” Poetry Foundation, April 4, 2025.

•  “Marlene,” “Donna,” “Linda,” “Lucy,” “Faye,” “Bernadette,” “Nancy (1),” “Kathy,” “Norma,” “Grace,” “Marguerite,” “Mary,” “Luanne,” “Marie,” “Georgia,” “Julia,” “Harryette,” “Gloria,” “Miranda,” “Julie,” “Martine,” “Jane” and “Nancy (2)”. Heavy Feather Review, August 2024.

• “Lorine,” “H.D.” and “Mina”.  The Solitary Plover: Lorine Niedecker Newsletter, Summer 2024.

• “Käthe Kollwitz,” “Ferne,” “Ginny,” “Patti” and “Linnée,” MER: Motherhood Literature & Art (web, March 14, 2024).

• “Sally Young,”  Live Mag! Issue 20, 2023, print and web.

• “Linda & Barb,” “Laura Ingalls Wilder (print),” “Marilyn Meyer,” “Harriette Hartigan,” “Maureen Owen,” “Diane di Prima,” Mother Egg Review, October 14, 2023.

• “Take It Away,” a poem in sixteen parts, The Brooklyn Rail,September 2022. Print/web

• “Four Stories” (“Gather,” “Mother,” “Politely” and “Identical),” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2022. Web

• “Free Press Flashback: Their Wooden Box Camera Was Big Hit at 1974 Michigan State Fair,” Detroit Free Press,March 27, 2022. print/web

• “Oh Girl,” “Naked,” “Echo,” “I Just Found Out” and “The Beauty of Pigeons.” Posit 29. Jan 1 2022. “Naked” nominated for a Pushcart Award.  Web

• “Chapter 5: Book of Ferne, A Detroit Story,” Three Fold Detroit, Summer 2021, Web.

• “With a Bang,” Spring Newsletter. Writers.com. April 2021, Web.

• “Dear Friend, Dear Teacher,” Boog City, February 2021. Print.

• “Losing Lewis.” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2021.

• “On Lewis.” Poetry Project Memoriam, 18 Nov 2020, Web.

• “Closure and Closure.” The Paris Review Daily Poem.Jan 23, 2020. Rpt. from Paris Review, Issue 143 (Summer 1997).

• “Do Not Come,” “On Air, On Land, On Sea,” “On the Q,” “String Ball,” “Me, Too,” and “Ever Shifting.” Califragile (2018)

• “You Want it Darker / Nov 13, 2016,” “One Bridge Down/ Sept 12, 2017,” “A Lot of Things / Nov 1, 2017,” “Leaf in Hand / Nov 11, 2017,” “Coyotes /Nov 25, 2017” and “Chocolate / Feb 20, 2018.” Dispatches Poetry Wars(June 2018).

• “The Moon/Mar 13, 2016,” “We Branch Out/Oct 17, 2016,” “No Matter What/Nov 29, 2016,” “Woman With a Cane/Mar 29, 2017” and “It All Depends/Apr 27, 2017.” from Digigrams. The Brooklyn Rail (February 2018). Print and Web.

• “Kiss Me/Feb 26, 2016,” “Morning Glory/Mar 2, 2016,” “It’s Us/Mar 3, 2016,” “So Says Ovid/Mar 4, 2016,” “It’ll Come to An End/Mar 10, 2016.” from Digigrams. Downtown Brooklyn (Winter 2018). Web.

• “You Knew Before/Mar 21, 2016,” “Walled-In/Apr 23, 2016,” “Stumble/May 15, 2016,” “Slow Snow/Dec 30, 2016” and “Common Thought/Jan 4, 2017.” From Digigrams. Califragile (Dec 2017).

• “Raining/Feb 24, 2016 and Feb 25, 2016,” “To Get By/May 9, 2016,” “We Can, We Can/Aug 1, 2016,” “On Air, On Land, At Sea/Oct 26, 2016” and “June 8, 2017.” From Digigrams. Posit: A Journal of Writing and Art.Issue 16 (December 2017).

• “Safety/Mar 27, 2016,” “Let Me Know/Aug 4, 2016,”  “Prediction/Jan 12, 2017,” “Come Here/Mar 20, 2017” and “Spilling Over/Apr 28, 2017.” From Digigrams. Califragile (Nov 2017).

• “Wham!/Feb 29, 2016,” “Siren/Mar 1, 2016,” “Do Not Come/Mar 8, 2016,” “Ethics/Mar 14, 2016″ and “Flip It/Jan 27, 2017.” From Digigrams. The Recluse 13 (2017). Web.

• “Bayport Long Island,” “Barrett Avenue,” “Deepwater Horizon” and “Between the Sound and the Atlantic.” Water, Water Everywhere: Prose and Art. (November 14, 2015) Web.

• “Just to Stay Afloat,” “In a Small Cloud,” “Hallelujah,” “Text Me Please,” and “Unnameable,” Boog Portable Reader Instant Anthology 9 (2015).

• “The Most Mundane, the Most,” “Not One Oriol” and “Fine Particles.” Brooklyn Paramount (2015). Print.

• “When I Give an Exam,” “Limitations,” “Like Birds,” “On the Bottom Rung,” and “A Day Like Today,” Downtown Brooklyn. 2015.

• “Raining All Day,” “Twice in One Lifetime,” “When I Arrive,” “The Speed of Light,” “Across My Eyes,” “On Any Given Day,” and “New Years Eve.” BlazeVOX: An Online Journal of Voice. 15 (Spring 2015).

• “A Bedouin Man,” Dusie Tuesday. Tuesday Poem #101. March 10, 2015.

• 8 Poems: “At Sunrise,” “Applause,” “I Was Walking Down,” “We Americans,” “In a Fractional Way,” “A Blind Spot,” “White Blossoms” and “Optimism,” The Brooklyn Rail (July-August 2014).

• “Bayport, Long Island,” “Deepwater Horizon” and “Third Street, Tucson.” Poets for Living Waters.

• “14x14x14”. Peep/Show: A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality 10:4 (2011).

• “Out of Detroit,” “Organ Light” and “Protestants and Catholics.” Jacket Magazine37 (2009).

• “The Content of History Will Be Poetry.” Eoagh. Issue 5. 2009.

• “Five Stories: Hunger, Like a Stairway, The Light is Light, Two Big Yawns, and What We Need Now.” Jacket Magazine 35 (2008).

• “An Arc Falling Into the Bougainvillea.” Reconfigurations. 2007.

• “Black Grapes” The Brooklyn Rail. June 12, 2006.

• “Watching Things Work.” Laconian Ink 9 (1995).