Poems
The Hopkins Review, forthcoming.
“Our Snowmen at the End of Winter” & “Somewhere, Someone”
Northwest Review, Vol. 52 / No. 3, Spring 2023.
“The History of Grass“
Literary Matters, Issue 15.3, Spring 2023.
“Thaw“
Literary Matters, Issue 15.2, Winter 2023.
”First Snow”
Sewanee Review, Vol. CXXX / No. 3 * Summer 2022.
”Hospice”
CODE LIT, 2022.
“Once”
Ecotone, Issue 28: The Love Issue, Spring 2020.
“Here on Earth”
Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 94: Bayt, 2020.
“Understanding”
Poetry Daily, November 17, 2019.
“The Phone”
Ocean State Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 / Fall 2019.
”Custody Denied” and “The Phone”
The New York Times Magazine, 2019.
“A Voice from the Wreck” (selected by Rita Dove)
Verse Daily, 2019.
“Visiting My Own Grave”
The Hopkins Review
“Plastic Men,” “Drinking All Night in Tennessee,” and “Cheating in a Small Town”
The Believer, Issue 125, Jun/July 2019.
“Confession: Silva’s Quarry”
Leafbread, Issue 2, 2019.
“A Haunted House”
The Southeast Review, Issue 37.1, 2019.
“The Future of the Past”
Literary Matters, Issue 11.1, October 2018.
“The Dive” and “Missing”
wildness, Issue 14, June 2018.
“Family Negatives Under Microscope”
Southern Poetry Review, Volume 55, Issue 2, Spring 2018.
“A Voice from the Wreck”
Birmingham Poetry Review, Issue 45, Spring 2018.
“Poem Begun in a West Texas Corn Maze”
“Dead Town,” Reprinted in Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers, 7th edition, ed. John Schlib and John Clifford, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2018.
Best New Poets 2017.
“On the Dred Ranch Road Just off 283” (selected by Natalie Diaz)
Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, Volume XI, Issue 2, 2017.
“Girl Found Dead in the Sequatchie Valley” **nominated for a Pushcart**
Ecotone, Issue 23, Spring/Summer 2017.
“Boys”
The Stirring, Volume 19, Edition 2, Spring 2017.
“Love Poem with Five Lines Stolen from VHS Boxes”
Shenandoah, Volume 66, Number 3, Spring 2017.
“Small Funeral”
Unsplendid, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Winter 2017.
“Necessary Rituals”
The Hopkins Review, Vol. 9, Issue 4, Fall 2016.
“Dead Town”
The Rockhurst Review, Issue 29, Spring 2016.
“Toward Your Understanding”
32 Poems, Issue 13.1, Spring/Summer 2015.
“Halloween” **nominated for a Pushcart**
“Be a Man: Benjamin S. Grossberg on ‘Halloween’ by Chad Abushanab”
The Raintown Review, Vol. 12, Issue 1, April 2014.
“Restless”
N4728: Revue de poésie, No. 20, June 2011.
“Silva’s Quarry,” (in French translation)
Jellyfish Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2010.
“Cherry Ripe” and “Grace’s”
Miscellany, Vol. 29, Spring 2009.
“In Good Faith”
Miscellany, Vol. 28, Spring 2008.
“Commencement”
Essays & Reviews
“On John Foy’s No One Leaves the World Unhurt,” The Hopkins Review (forthcoming).
“Introduction,” Sweet Wolf: New and Selected Poems by Robert McDowell, Homestead Lighthouse Press, 2021.
“On Sasha Pimentel’s For Want of Water,” Southern Humanities Review, February 2018.
“Faith from the Shores of Doubt: A Review of Michael Shewmaker’s Penumbra,” The Oxford American, April 2017.
“New Town, New Light,” 32 Poems, December 2015.
“The New Testament by Jericho Brown,” Colorado Review, January 2015.
“Form and Process,” Bayou Magazine, November 2013.
“A Review of For Us, What Music? The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice,” Resources for American Literary Study, August 2013.
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