Publications

ESSAYS & CREATIVE NONFICTION

Forthcoming: “Providence, 199?” great MEDIA for weather anthology, summer/fall 2022.
“Thinking with Emerson: An Exchange on the Poet’s Essay,” with Philip Coleman. asap/Journal, May 22, 2022.
“My New York,” cnf. Soundings East, Vol. 44, Spring 2022.
“My Mother Screamed, but I Don’t Know What Sound It Made,” cnf. The Carolina Quarterly. Fall 2021, Issue 71.1.
“The Falling Man,” essay. Bennington Review. Devotions Issue 7, 2019.
“Hotel Pool, or, Gay Subject Matter.” The Doctor T. J. Eckleberg Review. Fall/Winter 2019.
“Nomenclature for Eating, 1988,” essay. 580 Split. Issue 21 “Breach” 2019.
“She Sings the Body Electric: Soundscape in Two “Songs” by Muriel Rukeyser,” essay. Muriel Rukeyser a Living Archive, Eastern Michigan University.
“A Trip to Skull Island with the Circus Animals,” cnf. Gravel.
“The Impenetrable Wood: Gender Identity in Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Moose,” essay. Parlour, a Journal of Criticism & Literary Analysis, Ohio University.

Each of the following essays are published in RadiusLit.org These essays are published under a pseudonym, Jean Macpherson.

“Cleary, Yes? A response to three poems by Stephanie Brown.” March 3, 2011.
“Don’t Look at Me: Emotive associations upon reading two poems by Christine Ann Reynolds.” April 29, 2011.
“As the Potatoes Speak, They Observe: Poetry, Potatoes, & Birth.” September 27, 2011.
“Ah, Sweet Youth: Laura Reed’s ‘Donut Parade.'” April 23, 2012.
“Crying my little one, footsore and weary.” A reaction to Newtown. December 15, 2012. ***Nominated for a Best of the Net Award in Creative Nonfiction, 2013.***
Going Up? Going Down? Getting Stuck Between Floors in Melissa Culbertson’s “Elevator Love Song.” April 26, 2013.
“I can’t leave the former well enough alone: Looking for every you after reading Sophie Klahr’s ‘The Flooded Field.’” September 27th, 2013.
Life Lesson: What I Learned from Mr. Levine. March 4th, 2015

POEMS

“What the Mountains Say.” Blueline, 2019.
“Milepost 350, 2:33 am.” Niche Magazine, No. 6. (Archived).
“Double Fantasy, 1980.” Bond Street Review
“The Ellen Jamesian is a Mermaid” and “Sestina Lot #41994.” Radius Lit, June, 2016.
“Homeless.” Atomic- Magazine of Small Poetry, Inaugural issue Fall 2015.
“Rebel Woman,” “on the fly,” and “New American Style.” text, Summer 2015
“Girl with Portfolio.” CLARE Literary Magazine, Vol. 13, Winter 2013.
“Elegy for the Man on the No.3 Bus.” Weave, Winter 2013.
“CashSux & CarryGunz.” The Broken Plate, Spring 2013.
“The Tappan Zee.” Two Hawks Quarterly, 2013: http://twohawksquarterly.com/2012/12/12/tappan-zee/
“Mouth Open Wide & Screaming.” Spillway.
“My sister, age 4.” The Mas Tequila Review.
“Leaving on Spencer 31 North.” Blueline.
“The Eel.” OVS.
“Age of Bronze.” Pearl.
“How Can a Pretty Thing Lie.” Third Wednesday.
“Your Marriage Once Walked a Rocky Shore. Nerve Cowboy.
3 Poems. Driftwood Review. (Journal now defunct.)
“Pepe with the Pipe.” Orange Room Review.
“Residue.” Wicked Alice. Also included in the print annual, 2006

SHORT STORIES

Forthcoming: “A Pure Stand,” Variant Literature, Fall 2022.
“When Sunshine is the Place You Find Yourself.” Rougarou, University of Louisiana. Fall 2013
“Ray Against the World.” Beginnings. Summer 2003.

INTERVIEWS

EDITORIAL

Stone Quarterly, a Literary Arts Journal, Winter 2021-
Worcester Review. Features Editor for issue on Cole Porter & Worcester Jazz. November 2013.
Ballard Street Poetry Journal. Founding publisher and editor, 2006-2008.
Worcester Review. Features Editor for issue on Robert Cormier, Vol. 29 No’s. 1 & 2.