My first full-length poetry collection, Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems, was published by Dzanc Books in 2014. My second chapbook, The Octopus, won the Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest in 2015 and was published in 2016. (A previous chapbook, Two Shakespearean Madwomen Vs. The Detroit Red Wings, was published in 1998 and is long out of print.) My poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have won awards including a Pushcart Prize.
Below are links to some of my poetry and prose available online. (Scroll to bottom for video.)
Prose:
- Marchxness: “Cloven Tongues Like As Of Fire” (essay on Babes in Toyland’s “Bruise Violet” for the 2021 March Plaidness tournament)
- The Rumpus: “Unsettled Terrain” (Review of Rummage by Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa)
Poems:
- The Rupture: “Love Poem That Becomes the Wikipedia Entry for Ambrosia Beetle”
- The Rupture: “Your Man Asks for Makeup”
- Quiddity: “Awkward Diary, Four and a Half Stars”
- EKL Review: “‘A Flower Does Not Chase a Bee'”
- EKL Review: “Lost Letters”
- Rattle: “Ambiguous Antecedents” (with audio)
- Diode: “Then Drones Started Delivering Packages” and “Good White People”
- Liminal Stories: “The Finity Code”
- Vinyl: “Alarm”
- FRiGG: five poems about an octopus
- Linebreak: “My Whole World” (with audio by Matthew Hendriksen)
- FreezeRay: “Nancy Drew and the Only Ladder” and “Ode to Trixie Mattel”
- The Collagist: “Stegosaurus Moon”
- The Collagist: “Birthday Poem with Tentative Divorce Agreement”
- Your Impossible Voice: “When I Died Running a Red Light”
- Your Impossible Voice: “When I Died of a Common Brain Condition”
- Your Impossible Voice: “When I Died of Butterflies”
- Michigan Radio: “American Spring” (with audio)
- Four Way Review: “When I Died by Fire” (with audio)
- Glassworks: “Warning and Watch”
- Rattle: “Feats of Pain and Daring” (with audio)
- Prairie Schooner: “Chicken Soup”
- the museum of americana: “East Ohio Truck Stop”
- Muzzle: “The Snail Scene” (with audio)
- Muzzle: “Yes Yes Yes” (with audio)
- poemeleon: “Dear Mark Strausbaugh, Dining Room Manager,”
- The Collagist: “Things to Think About”
Video:
Awkward Diary, 4.5 Stars:
I Have Come to Spit Hot Fire:
Chicken Soup: