Collections of Poems:
Hummingbird Vows (chapbook, Bottlecap Press, 2023)
How Distant the City (chapbook, Headmistress Press, 2018)
Map of Things No Longer Here: Phonebook of Special Skills (collaboration with Molly Rideout and Rachel Buse, 2017. Click the link for a free PDF.)
For the Immediate Aftermath: Post-Election Poems (poetry pamphlet, self-published, 2016)
Individual Poems Available Online:
“A student asks, ‘Are we allowed to write about abortion in this class?’” in Tinderbox
“During the Pandemic, I Lose My Spelling” in Sweet Lit
“Bridgeless River” in Impossible Archetype
“Red State” in Mobius
“Tail Wind” in Rockvale Review
“Near the Freeway” in Stoneboat
“Salvage,” “A Thing That Counts,” and “Small Town Gossip” in Bramble
“Sometimes I Imagine The Back Wall of This Room Is Rolled Open to the Night’s Solitude Like an Alley Garage With the Door Cranked Up” in Academy of American Poets
“The Interstitium’s Song” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“Whole Walk The Run” and “Movement Song” in Fjords
“Detour of War” in Small Orange
“Teaching Statement” and “Family Dinner” in Yes Poetry
“The One Crying in English Class” in Plume
“What’s Worth Fixing” in Flyway Journal
“This Land Will Always Be Here For You” and “Habitat” in About Place Journal
“Plantains” in New Mexico Review
“Body Politic of the Internet” and “NYE” in Stirring
“The Set Up” in K‘in
“Leave Red July” in Killjoy Zine
“Sonnet for Road A” in Rogue Agent
“Missing Cat” in SWWIM Women Writers
“If This is My Last Message” in New Verse News
“An Icy Stop” in The Wanderer
“Poem for the March After the Election” in Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
You can also listen to several of my poems on Soundcloud.
Micro-Memoir:
“Eleven Micro-Memoirs from the Pandemic” in Cleaver Magazine
“The Red Dot That Ends the Sentence” in The Maine Review
Lyric Essays and Creative Nonfiction:
“A few months after Jade and I moved to Florida…” in A Catalog of Small Machines
“Teaching Commute” in Birdcoat Quarterly
“Social Distancing, A Return Home, and Bishop’s ‘Questions of Travel’” in The Florida Book Review
“Here” #Midwessay in Essay Daily
Scholarship:
“Feedback as Fan Letter: A Few Notes on What We Write to Students” in Assay: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction Studies
Guest Blog Posts and Craft Essays:
I was a 2021 regular contributor to the Ploughshares blog. You can read all of my posts here.
“On ‘Like Buying a House’‘” in Split Rock Review‘s Contributor Spotlight Series
“Beyond Placeholders: Writing Poem Titles” in The Loft Blog
“Putting the Poetry Submissions Process Back in Its Place” in The Loft Blog
“Becoming a Pandemic Diarist” in ALL Blog
Guest post on Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue in Bone Bouquet‘s “Reading For” series
“Crucial Connections” in What She Might Think‘s Pandemic Meditations series
Collaborative Writing:
“Shells and Shelves” with Jade Kastel
Journalism:
“Commentary: Glittery confidence is as potent as jet fuel” on Tri-States Public Radio
“When Queer Brunch Outgrows the Apartment” in South Florida Gay News
“Aesthetic Drift #18: O, Miami” in Drunken Odyssey
“Bicycle Checkpoints Poetics: Crossing a City in Two Movements” in RelevantMilwaukee
“Why I am Not a Foodie” in Huffington Post
Book Reviews:
Glass Poetry: Micro-Review of Julia Vinograd’s The Circus
The Drunken Odyssey: Review of Adrienne Rich’s Essential Essays
Gulf Stream: Review of Self-Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen by Kate Fadick
Gulf Stream: Review of Nasty Women Poets edited by Grace Bauer and Julie Kane
Woodland Pattern Blog: Review of Leslea Newman’s I Carry My Mother
TQ Reviews:
I served as a staff book reviewer for South Florida Poetry Journal. Here are some of the books I reviewed:
- I Wish My Father by Lesléa Newman
- Unprotected Lexicon by Alexa Chrisbacher
- Have You Seen this Man: The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney, edited by Jim Cory
- Sunshine State by Gregg Shapiro
- Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
- American Letters: works on paper by Giovanni Singleton
- Bluer and More Vast by Michael Hettich
- The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick
- Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
- Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton
Interviews with Other People:
Ms. Magazine Blog: Interview with Farrell Greenwald Brenner
Gulf Stream: Interview with Eileen Myles
The Conversant: Interview with Danez Smith
The Conversant: Interview with Anja Notanja Sieger
Interviews of Me:
College Days: The Ripon College student newspaper interviewed me about my Poet in Residence position
Poets Have Something to Say podcast: Interviewed by Jeffrey Charles McAndrew
The Grabbed Anthology blog: Q&A Interview
5 to 9: The poet Alessandra Simmons interviewed me about my poetic practice.
The Art Shore: Q&A Interview
Untitled Town: Interview with Nichole Rued about Milwaukee Poetry of the Resistance
Reviews of My Work:
Jessica S. Frank reviews How Distant the City at Portage Magazine
Anthologies Featuring My Work:
Stained Anthology (forthcoming from Querencia Press)
The Grabbed Anthology (Beacon Press)
The Milwaukee Anthology (Belt Publishing)
If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Press)
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