Poetry
You Too Were Once on Fire
Forthcoming from Terrapin Books in September 2025
“Bad History” in Poetry Wales
”Closing Time” & “Past Time” in Light Journal
“Erased” in Poetry City
“Grand Fugue” in Rattle
“Local Birds” in Sleet Magazine
“Stars Poetica” in Diode
“The Book of Stars” in The New York Quarterly
“The Diaspora of Light” in Typehouse
“The Duality of Dust” in The Laurel Review
“The Hunger of Tides” in Philadelphia Stories
“The Resentment of Stars” in The Summerset Review
Mean Time
These are published in Mean Time.
“Doing Time” in Rattle
“Mean Time” in Rattle
“After Time” in Rust + Moth
“Down Time” & “No Problem” in Watershed Review
“In Due Time” in What Rough Beast
“Watching The Crucible in the Time of Trump at Theatr Newydd, Cardiff” in What Rough Beast
I Thought I Was Going to be Okay
These are published in I Thought I Was Going to be Okay.
“Foreclosure” & “Good Grief” in ETC
“The Free Market” in Transition: Poems in the Aftermath
“Next,” “What lies behind perfect love life, Peter Murphy” & “Not That Complicated” in Diode
“Every Time” in Hawaii Pacific Review
“The Modern Economy” & “Stairs to All Levels” in Sleet Magazine
The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar
These are from The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar, a chapbook awaiting a publisher. These poems are reflections on a series of etchings by David Hockney based on “The Man With The Blue Guitar” by Wallace Stevens based on a painting of an old man by Picasso who saw a guitarist busking on a Barcelona street.
“Five Poems” in The Ekphrastic Review
“Made in April” in Shift
“On it may stay his eye” in One Art
“Serenade” in South Florida Poetry Journal
Uncollected Poems
“Labor Day: Atlantic City” in Rattle
“Harder” in Love & Ensuing Madness
“At the New Age Hotel” & “Can’t Dance” in The Cortland Review
“Baptism” in The Cortland Review
“Search For a Bent Twig” in Chest
“If This Be Treason” in Writing for Human Rights
“Blog,” “Mumbles” & “On Snowdon’s Wilds” in Brickplight
“Breaking News” in Philadelphia Stories
“Llywelwyn’s Dog” in Verse Daily (Ouch, they spelled Llywelwyn wrong)