Recent &
Forthcoming Poems
“To be Rita Hayworthed, First Variation” in Rhino. Forthcoming 2026.
“Ekphrastic Towards a Family” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry. October 1, 2025.
“The Ballad of the Quito Tenis” in Harpur Palate, Issue 24.1 Spring/Summer 2025.
“Oberwolfach, a love poem” and “Technicolor Sonnet (To be the emerald of a mallard’s neck)” in The Shore, Issue 25. Spring 2025.
“Technicolor Sonnet (Just to be longing, belong to it)” in Sugar House Review, Issue 27. Winter 2023.
“Slut” in Honey Literary Review, Issue 6. 2023.
“Portrait of Girls as Technicolor” and “Creation Myth” in The Canary, Issue 7, 2021 (Canarium Books).
“I’d rather think of that blue fringe of feathers, // of the blue heron’s eyes, of how so much / that is alive thrashes against explanations / & how I would happily wrap myself // in Majorelle blue & drink—no, chew— / big hunks of its freshness...”
Earlier Poems
“Silent Movie” in Portland Review, 2013. *Published in Color Advisory Board as “Technicolor Sonnet (To rearrange the actors again and want).”
“My Mother claims that we are related to Hedy Lamarr” and “Rin Tin Tin dies in my mother’s, not Jean Harlow’s, arms” in Apalachee Review, Issue 63, 2013.
“Finis” in Bayou Magazine, Issue 60, 2013. *Published in Color Advisory Board as “Technicolor Sonnet (In her absence, we choose to speak of this).”
“Panamanian Diary” and “The Iconography of Small Houses” in Bellingham Review, Vol. 36, Issue 66, 2013. *Published in Color Advisory Board as “Girl as the Color Feral” and “Prayer,” respectively.
“Simultaneous Translation” in Cimarron Review, Issue 164, 2008.
“Postcards from places I have never been” in South Carolina Review, Vol. 41, Issue 1, Fall 2008. *Published in Color Advisory Board as “Bodies of Proof.”
Images by Daniel Olah & Pedro Cunha via Unsplash.