Poems

Erasure poem on an old book page overlayed with an illustrated cutout of a woman and embroidered red leaves.

I slithered out of / my own /
tendrils

From “I Found My Way,” an erasure of  I Found My Way: An Autobiography by Margery Wilson (Lippincott, 1956) 

Visual Poems

Bellingham Review[words gather,] [to save ourselves,] [Our nerves were tense]

Indianapolis Review[to save ourselves]

Tupelo Quarterly: “I Found My Way” and A Portfolio of Erasures

Still: A JournalFive Visual Poems

Poems from Millie MacAdoo Takes Note

 Mudlark: Eight poems 

Still: The Journal: “Millie’s Origin Story” and “Dear Charlie: Letters Written in Library Books” 

Good River Review: “Clew”  

Poems from Studies of Familiar Birds

American Life in Poetry: “Robbing the Bees

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)”

Terrain.org: “Field Sketch for Meadow Lark,” “Study for Long-Billed Marsh Wren,” “Long-Billed Marsh Wren (PLATE XLVI.),” and “Climbing for Nests

DIAGRAM: “Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (PLATE XXV. Fig. 1)” and “Golden-Winged Warbler (PLATE LXL. Fig. 2)

The Drum: “Coquina Rock” and “Test Drive”

Other Poems

Salvation South: “Somewhere, Summer” and “Eating Apples

Terrain: “Incomplete Abecedarian of Censored Words” and “More Questions of Travel

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)