Publications, Media & Events

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2023

Nothing yet.

2022

• CUTBOW Quarterly – Issue 2 – page 42 – “Balance Due” – Be sure to enjoy the survey included at the end of the poem.
• South Carolina Review 55.1 – Fall 2022 – “Graveside”
• Pigeon Pages – “No One Will Put Up with Me Long Enough to Love Me” – October 2022
• Autofocus Lit – “Heritage” – September 2022
• August and September 2022 – two late summer sessions of POETRY AFIELD, featuring Adrienne Crezo, Kay E. Bancroft, Andy Sia, Rae Hoffman Jager, Connor Yeck, Sara Moore Wagner and Madeline Corley.
• Impossible Archetype – Issue 12.2 – “If You’re Reading This Poem, I Might Be Dead”
• South Florida Poetry Journal – Don’t Say Gay special issue – August 2022 – “Brief History of Saying Gay”
• Southeast Review – Issue 40.1 – “Every Turn”
• June 2022 – Poetry Afield featuring Dior Stephens, Adrienne Crezo and Taylor Byas!
• Event: Launch reading for I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing – 3/16 at the historic Mercantile Library in downtown Cincinnati.
• I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices – anthology of Ohio Appalachian poets and poetry. My poems included were “Let Us Pray” and “B.”
• Limp Wrist – Issue 6, the Barbie issue – in honor of the 25th anniversary of Denise Duhamel’s KINKY – “Ken Blew Me”
• MOLLYHOUSE – Issue 4 – “The first time,” “Nephews of Icarus” and “Break//Scar”
• Limp Wrist – Issue 5 – “Sort & Filter” – a reprint/rescue from the defunct journal (b)OINK.
• POETRY Magazine – January 2022 – two poems in the “Flyover Country” folio – “Hayfield Prayer” and “New Queer Cinema.” More here.

2021

• Rejection Letters – December 2021 – “Some of My Poems” and “Swoon”
• Ghost City Review – December 2021 – “Inflammations / Exaggerations”
• West Trade Review – “Testament” and “Quantum Entanglement“
• Limp Wrist #4 – the villanelle issue – my simultaneous time love poem, “The Same Love”
• The Shore – Issue 11, Autumn 2021 – “Bonfire” 
• Olney Magazine – Fall 2021 – “Laments, Supposedly”
• Ran Off with the Star Bassoon – “The Toast” – a funny sad prose poem set at a 90s wedding. 
• Event: Poetry Afield, September 11, 2021. An amazing reading with Madeleine Watternberg, Travis Lau and Taylor Byas. 
• CutBank – Issue 95 – “How to Behead a Snake”  Winner: Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry 
• fourteen poems, Issue 5 – “Slow Down”
• Limp Wrist 3 – “It’s Not My Affair” – inspired by a Dolly Parton song
• Event: Dead Uncles Reading, Release and Book Signing – June 5, 2021 at The Littlefield, with special guests Marianne Chan and Julie E. Bloemeke. 
• May 2021: Dead Uncles – my chapbook of poems/folklore/reverie published by Driftwood Press. 
• Thrush Poetry Journal – May 2021 – “Seizure“
• Award: I was awarded the 2021 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry via CutBank Literary Magazine. 
• The Indianapolis Review – Spring 2021 – “Free Coffee” and “Evil B“
• Impossible Archetype – “Bursitis // Love Sounds”
• Driftwood Issue 8.1 – “Murder,” from my chapbook, Dead Uncles. 

2020

• Event: Headmaster Magazine Aluminum Anniversary Party. 
• Event: Driftwood Press virtual reading to celebrate the release of Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by Erin Carlyle. 
• Event: Tom of Finland Artfair – the video poem “Ramble Call (6′ Edit)” was part of the Subversive Ink reading on 12/12/2020.
• Event: SAGITTARIUS A* Virtual Release Event – Friday, December 11, 2020 – featuring guest poets Anthony Aguero, Taylor Byas and Todd Dillard.
• The Cortland Review – Issue 86 – “The Part I Know,” a poem from Sagittarius A*.
• HIV Here & Now Daily Poem Series – “Dead Young Uncles (Pink Thread 12”)” and “Things He Said to My Face.”
• The Night Heron Barks Fall 2020- “Wake Black”
• Lunch Ticket – Amuse-Bouche feature – “When My First Cousin’s Husky Puppy Licks My Face” and “They Say Men Are Always About Looks”
• perhappened mag – “Cemetery Precinct”
• Event: SAGITTARIUS A* ORBITS MADISON PARK – a socially-distanced, masks-insisted outdoor poetry reading and book signing. 
• Recognition: My full length manuscript Twang was named as a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series.
• Sagittarius A* – my chapbook of interstellar poems on aging, family, origin and time travel.
• No Contact, Issue 9 – “Fever” and “Unmute” – pandemic poems. No colleagues were harmed in the writing of “Unmute.”
• Impossible Archetype #8 – “Most Men” 
• Event: The Okay Donkey Virtual Reading to celebrate the release of Todd Dillard’s Ways We Vanish.
• Recognition: My full length manuscript Twang was named a finalist for the 2020 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry by judge Claudia Rankine.
• Recognition: The 2020 Christopher Hewitt Award for Poetry for the poem “It Was Never Supposed to Be Ours” featured in A & U Magazine.
• Event: Wild and Precious Life Series, an online poetry reading. May 6, 2020.
• Hobart – May 2020 – “(R)ejaculation (Tumblr Edit)”
• DIAGRAM – 20.2 – “Lover” and “Uncle Mike,” two of my lesson plan poems.
• A & U Magazine – April 2020 – “Patient” and “Dead Uncle, 1979.”
• Vagabond City Lit – Issue 47 – “Will / Inherit”
• Impossible Archetype – Issue 7, March 2020 – “Covenant” – I’m on page 51 of this amazing collection of LGBTQIA+ artists.
• The Bending Genres Anthology 2018/2019 – ed. Robert Vaughn – my poem “Me, Too, Once, and I Could Only Make an Outline“ appears on page 21 after originally appearing at Bending Genres Journal in 2018.
• Juked – March 2020 – “The New Math” – I love this poem. It opens Twang. 
• Alien Magazine – March 2020 – “Giving Up the Dew”
• Event: Inkwell Open Poetry Mic ft Ben Kline – Cincinnati OH – Wed. Feb. 12, 2020.
• GRAVITON Lit – February 2020 – “Twinkling” – an early version of a poem that appears in Sagittarius A*.
• Bending Genres Journal – February 2020 – “Choke,” “Sir, Yes Sir” and “Serenade” – collaborative poems with Tyler French. Have to say, very proud of these poems.
• Queen Mob’s Teahouse – January 2020 – “A Pile” and “Saved Message #3.”
• Ghost City Press – My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems – a reprint of “Reading Is Fundamental” – January 2020. “Reading Is Fundamental” originally appeared in Grist Online.

2019

• Screen Door Review – Issue 7, December 2019 – “Potato Salad”
• Okay Donkey – December 2019 – “The Lonely Code”
• Event: Cincinnati Book Art Fair, poetry reading, 12/15/19
• Event: Po-Jazz, an evening of poetry and live jazz at The Club at Schwartz Point, 12/12/19.
• Astral Waters Review – Issue 2, November 2019 – “newworldorder”
• Event: Poetry Afield, an evening of poetry, friends and drinks at The Littlefield, Cincinnati OH.
• Pidgeonholes – August 2019 – “Doubt” and “Spell for Which I Had No Use”
• Impossible Archetype – No. 6, August 2019 – “Vascularity”
• Chelsea Station – August 2019 – “Visiting from Ohio.”
• Homology Lit – Issue 3 – August 2018 – “Missing Things” and “Be a Good Boy.”
• 8 POEMS Journal – July 2019 – “Big Bang.”
• Queer Sailors #4 (zine) – Seamen Needed – my poem “Bolide, Papua New Guinea, 2014” appears in this issue, written specifically on the themes of sailors and mythology.
• Risk Magazine – Issue VII – These Sordid Delights, which features a modified version of my poem “Fluid World.”
• Risk Magazine – Issue VII – The Art of Intimacy – Interlude, which features the poem “He Said to Wear Something Pretty.”
• Horny Poetry Review – April 2019 – “Men Forget Everything.”
• petrichor – Issue 10, April 2019 – “Where We Are” – a collaborative visual erasure poem with John MacConnell.
• Glass: A Journal of Poetry – April 2019 – “Spell to Unbind Family Ties” – National Poetry Month!!
• Risk Magazine – Issue VII – The Art of Intimacy – Astronauts, which features the poem “Daynight.”
• Grist Online – Vol. 12 – “Reading Is Fundamental.”
• Trailer Park Quarterly – Vol. 9 – March 2019 – “Spell for a Township Trustee.”
• Riggwelter – Issue 19 – March 2019 – featuring my short story “Disown Me Three Times” beginning on page 36 and my poem “Spell for Men Who Lay Hands” on page 52.
• Toe Good – January 2019 – “Spell to Elicit Heterosexual Urges”

2018

• Rappahannock Review – December 2018 – “August Aubade” and an interview.
• apt – November 2018 – “Red Spots in the Snow” and “Totems”
• Ghost City Review – November 2018 – “August Serenade”
• The Mantle – Fall 2018 – “Boy in Repetition” – Pushcart nominated.
• Impossible Archetype – August 2018 – “Ghazal the Stars”
• Ink & Nebula – Summer 2018 – “The Yellowjackets” & “Green Blades”
• The Offing – Mircos – “Tea” – July 2018
• Typehouse Literary Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 2, Issue 14 – “Tell Them I’m Dead” & “Ghazal for Dead Siblings”
• Bending Genres – June 2018 – “Me, Too, Once, and I Could Only Make an Outline”
• Beech Street Review – Spring 2018 – “She Went Out the Window”
• The Matador Review – Spring 2018 – “I don’t want to die like my upstairs neighbor”
• Impossible Archetype #3 – “Oil & Ambivalence”
• Love’s Executive Order – January 2018 – “Mall Fountain Penny Wish”
• Birds We Piled Loosely – “Ghazal on Sundays” (January 2018)

2017

• Umbrella Factory Magazine – Dec. 2017 – Suddenly Orange Air, Full Stop @ 46 and Leaving Las Vegas – Pages 24 – 26
• Poetry Is Dead – Issue 16, Nov. 2017 – “You Could Have Been Born in the Chechen Republic”
• Figroot Press – Fall 2017 – “Talking with Grandpa in 1983” and “@45 Years + 365.75 Days”
• Pretty Owl Poetry – Fall 2017 – “In Pursuit of Bianchi Boys“
• (b)OINK – “Sort & Filter” and “Nature of Inertia“
• Lotuseater Literary Magazine Issue 6, page 40 – “Spoons“
• Impossible Archetype #2 – “Urophilia Ghazal” (#Resist poem)
• Animal Literary Magazine – September 2017 – “How to Deal with Strays“
• USA Today’s I Am an American series – “The Sound in My Mouth,” where I talk about trying to lose my twang. I appear around the 7 min mark. Cincinnati, OH (July 2017)
• Kettle Blue Review – Spring 2017 – “Awareness,” “I Would Like the Art to Like Me” and “Cottonmouth“
• “Why I Write” – craft essay at I WAS BORN DOING REFERENCE WORK IN SIN – March 2017
• The New Verse News – March 2017 – “Sleep After a T***p Speech“

2016

• apt – December 2016 – “Relations”
• My Biggest Mistake – Cincinnati Storytellers, July 2016. I’d drank a bottle of pinot grigio before I took the stage. I cringe, but laugh as well.
• KNACK Magazine #35 – April 2016 – “The Starlings,” “Burn Your Morning Wood,” “Two Cloudy Days,” “From Fracture,” and “Why Poetry, a Reader Asked”
• Birds We Piled Loosely – “When He Said No” (July 2016)

2014

• Going Fast in Loose Directions – June 2014.

2013

• Headmaster Magazine #5 
• KNACK Magazine #8 – “Delirium of the Stye,” “Going Fast in Loose Directions” and “I’ll Never Let Me Go.” (June 2013)

2001

Some journals I don’t remember and cannot find.

1990s

A few journals here and there, print and online, but again, memories, from the corner of my mind.