Selected poetry

Dusk at Lower
Alloways Creek

The cooling tower

at the nuke

extends its searching

shadow. Across marshes

kids throw down

their bikes and,

sensing an ending,

run inside.

  • “No ideas but in desire…” and “Sharing space with the hosts,” Osiris 97, 2023 >>

  • “Coming of age by the sea,” forthcoming in a Red Noise Collective anthology of previously published works, 2023 [Canceled: venue folded, alas…]

  • “She grew into / a flame…,” Osiris: Celebrating 50 Years of Poetry, 1972–2022 (Special supplement, 2022) >>

  • “Useless Wonder,” Maya’s Micros / The Closed Eye Open, Batch 38, July 2022 >>

  • “Dusk at Lower Alloways Creek,” Cold Mountain Review, Spring / Summer 2021 >>

  • “For Fela,” Osiris 47, 1998 >>

  • “Localizations,” Compound Eye, 1995 >>

  • “Treasure” and “Kun Iam,” PEN International XLIV: 1, 1994 >>

  • “Malevitch Series,” Lift 8, 1991 >>

literary
works in progress

Out of the Woods

A novel set in the fall of 2011, Out of the Woods tells the story of disgraced university professor Henry Purcell, who left his wife, family, and job to hide out in a cabin in the Pennsylvania woods. Henry’s brother Andy, Andy’s girlfriend Cassia, and Henry’s teenage kids, Jeremy and Lucy, are confronted with questions we all might face: Should a parent ever leave their kids? Can one truly escape one’s past? How can we protect ourselves from a menacing future?

Seen through the eyes of Cassia, who strives to overcome her own abusive past, Out of the Woods brings to life cultural and familial conflict, our struggles to process traumatic history, and the possibility of changing our collective future.

Flash Fiction

Literary essays