Select Online Publications
More Poems from Studies of Familiar Birds
American Life in Poetry: “Robbing the Bees.”
Verse Daily: “Cliff Swallow.”
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: “The Last Time My Father Left the House,” “Fever,” “Study for Ruby-Throated Hummingbird,” “Portrait of Genevieve as a Young Woman,” and “After the Diagnosis.”
Beloit Poetry Journal: “Green Heron (PLATE XXVII)”, “Black-Capped Chickadee (PLATE LXVI),” and “Kentucky Warbler (PLATE LXVII).”
DIAGRAM: “Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (PLATE XXV. Fig. 1)” and “Golden-Winged Warbler (PLATE LXL. Fig. 2).”
PANK: “Bird in a Bell Jar,” “Ode to the Mourning Dove,” and “Funeral.”
The Drum: “Coquina Rock” and “Test Drive.”
Unsplendid: “Robbing the Bees” (re-published by American Life in Poetry) and “Migration.”
Other Poems
Tupelo Quarterly: A Portfolio of Erasures
Terrain: “More Questions of Travel.”
Mudlark: Poems from Millie and the Baffle Book.
Innisfree Poetry Journal: “If Rick Steves Were Your Boyfriend.”
The American Journal of Poetry: “Millie, Librarian-Detective, at the Track” and “Suspicions.”
Still: The Journal: “Millie’s Origin Story,” “Dear Charlie: Letters Written in Library Books.”
Beloit Poetry Journal: “High Time.”
Ginger Zine: “Lament,” “Everyday Calculations,” “Parsonage Parlor,” “Let’s Construct a Model City,” and “Active Shooter Training.”
Guitarist Scott Whiddon and multi-instrumentalist J. Tom Hnatow developed music to accompany “Bird in a Bell Jar.” The poem appeared in the Transylvania University BYTE Gallery of Digital Art and Music. Listen to the poem on Soundcloud.
DIAGRAM: “How to Read Me (October Birthday Cake).”
All plate images are from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Libraries. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org⠀