Upcoming publications include Pangyrus, bedfellows magazine, and Dream Pop.
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.