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          Sample poems from Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore :           

Homeroom    Gateway Drug    Rubber    Keloid

For more poems from the book, see the Anhinga Press website...  

 

Poems Online:

Slate (2006)    Slate (2003)   
VerseDaily (2007)    VerseDaily (2004) 
Nextbook (North Country Canzone)    Nextbook (Pharaoh's Daughter)     
From the Fishouse
 

 

Poems in Print:

Forthcoming, Journals

Barn Owl Review - “Preventing Teen Cough Medicine Abuse”

Shenandoah - “Massive Destruction”

Indiana Review - “Pediatric Eschatology”

Alaska Quarterly Review - “Elegy that Returns with Souvenirs”

 

Recently Published, Journals

Nextbook.org (Feb/March 2008) - “Pharoah's Daughter” and “North Country Canzone”

Redivider (Spring 2008) - “Interstate Cities”

APR (Sept/Oct 2007) - “The Violent Legacy of Household Monogamy”

Crab Orchard Review (Fall 2007) - “The Bar Code of Love”

Prairie Schooner (Spring 2007) - “The Chimneys of New Jersey,” “1944,” and Vacation Bible School”

Tampa Review (Fall 2006)- “Best Friend Diptych”

Hotel Amerika (Fall 2006) - “Elegy with No Shoe-Leather Enfolded in a Love Poem” and “Kia”

BLOW (Fall 2006) - “Clutch”

The Kenyon Review (Spring 2006) - “Absence,” “Smile! It's School Picture Time”

Hotel Amerika (Spring 2006) - “Blow,” “Gallant Aviatrix,” and “Elegy for  Certain Missing Persons & Secret Parts of Queens with Trains” 

Mid-American Review (Fall 2005) - “The Night Before the Wedding”

32 Poems (Fall/Winter 2005) -  “Come Home Late, Rise up Early, or Just Act Troubled”

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Fall 2005) - “Lithomancy”

Crab Orchard Review (Summer/Fall 2005) - “Instructions for Vigilant Girls,” “Electric Girls,” and “Campaign Speech” 

Gargoyle 50 (Summer 2005) - “Camp Westmont, 1988”

Redactions: Poetry & Prose 4/5 (Spring/Summer 2005) - “Notes on Guilt as Motion”

Barrow Street (Winter 2004) -  “Instructions for Constructing an Alien Abduction”

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review 23 (Fall/Winter 2004) Treatise on Nostalgia, Prayer for the Neighborhood

Third Coast ( Fall 2004) - “Faith-Based Option,” “Red Tornado Warning,” “Quisiera Declarar”

North American Review 289.5 (September-October 2004) - “Sex Ed”

Prairie Schooner 78.3 (Fall 2004) - “Engagement”

The Paterson Literary Review 33 (Fall 2004) - “Yelling,” “Kinky,” “Bargain”

The Minnesota Review 61-62 (Spring/Summer 2004) - “Going Down,” “After the All-Night Vigil”

5 AM  20 (Spring 2004) - “Ode to Sexy”

32 Poems  2.1 (Spring 2004) - “Domestic Spasm”

Sewanee Theological Review 47.1 (Christmas 2003) - “Homeroom”

Mid-American Review 24.1 (Fall 2003) - “P.S. 221 Goes to the Museum of Natural History” 

Clackamas Literary Review 7.1 (Spring/Summer 2003) - “Expedition Record”

Lake Effect 7 (Spring 2003) - “What to Do”

The Cream City Review 26.2 (Fall 2002) - “Teaching the 6th Grade”

The Southeast Review 22.1 (Fall 2002) - “Marriage”

Poet Lore 97.1/2 (Spring 2002) - “DWI”

The Madison Review 23.2 (Spring 2002) - “Job,” “Repair”

The Southern Review 38.1 (Winter 2002) - “Rubber,” “Elegy”

Arts and Sciences  19.1 (2001) - “Late Night Frequency”

The Green Hills Literary Lantern 5  (Winter 1995) - “For Opa,” “On the Death of a Friend” “Commute,” “Monstersunflower,” “Testimony to Autumn”

Analecta  19 (Fall 1993) - “Sun Crushed Bitter”

Curmudgeon  1 (Fall 1993) - “Indigo Boy”

 

Anthologies

The Way We Work Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace.  Eds. Peter Scheckne and Mary Boyes, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.  Poem:  “Job.”

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor.  Eds. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, No Tell Books, 2007.  Poems:  “Isotope” and “Treatise on Dwelling.”

Never Before:  Poems About First Experiences.  Ed. Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Four Way Books, 2005.  Poems:  “All the Pools in Queens” and “Job.”

Red, White & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America.  Eds. Ryan Van Cleave and Virgil Suarez.  University of Iowa Press, 2004.  127-128.  Poem:  “Gentrification.”  

Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets.  Eds. Rick Campbell and C.L. Knight.  Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2004.  236-245.  Poems:  “Labor Day,” “Elegy,” “They Are Always Doing Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore,” “Kinky,” and “someone calls.”

A Christmas Collection.  Ed. Mary Ann Eichelberger.  New York: July Literary Press, 2001. 32.  Poem:  “Sunset Park Preparatory Academy (M.S. 821).”