Upcoming work will appear in The Cortland Review and Theta Wave.
Upcoming: Sagittarius A* from Sibling Rivalry Press in September 2020.
Upcoming events: Wild and Precious Life Series, an online poetry reading. May 6, 2020.
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,” “How to Behead a Snake,” “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
KNACK Magazine #8 – “Delirium of the Stye,” “Going Fast in Loose Directions” and “I’ll Never Let Me Go.” (June 2013)
