Poetry

Links to books, poems, and hybrid essays

Books

Afterimages (2026) published by Sixteen Rivers Press.

Regards to Balthus (2023) published by Seven Kitchens Press.


Poems & Hybrid essays

At the Window” at New Verse Review.

“Jay DeFeo’s close-up of the inside of an oyster shell” at Antiphony.

“Jay DeFeo’s old-fashioned telephone with lightbulb earpiece” at Strange Hymnal.

Jay DeFeo’s teeth collected in a clamshell” at Strange Hymnal.

Five poems after Balthus at The Ekphrastic Review.

“As Jay DeFeo Paints Deathrose – The White Rose – The Rose (1958-1966)” at LIT Magazine, The wonderful painting that heads the poem is by Vera Iliatova.

Young Girl at the Window (1957)” at Southern Indiana Review .

The Triangular Field (1965)” at One by Jacar Press. See Mike Rivera’s Bare Patches for commentary on “The Triangular Field.

“Mother, 1975” at The Southern Review.

Outside Dubai” at Jujubes (see also the close reading of “Outside Dubai” by Luke Brekke in the same issue.)

On “Elizabeth Bishop and the Management of Distance” at Lindsay Ahl’s Shadowgraph Magazine.