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Poems

(from The Air in the Air Behind It)

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Annulet: A Journal of Poetics: "The Waylayer" 

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Miracle Monocle: "Milankovitch Cycles"

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Bennington Review: "What if There's Something Out There"

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World Literature Today: "Public Works"

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Forklift, Ohio: "from Puddle Jumper" and "from Puddle Jumper"

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Louisiana Literature: "Ergonomics of the Later Land"

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Salamander: "Before the Experts Mislabelled the Beyond" and "In the Upside Down Forest of Un-                               Furious People"(forthcoming)

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(Others) 

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Gulf Coast: "Calisthenics"

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           *Winner of the 2016 Gulf Coast Prize, selected by Rick Barot 

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Passages North: "Archaeology" and "Exploration of the Self as Enflamed Ethologist"

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The Journal: "Imitate Inanimate"

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Pleiades: "Little Whackos"

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The Southern Review: “Scene on a Summer Night with Visible Stars”, “Scene that Felt Final but Didn’t End                                               Famously”, and “Scene in which the Situation Seemed Settled”

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Denver Quarterly: “Land Escape” and “Exploration of the Self as Unsustainable Environment”

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Ninth Letter: “Incident Ending in the Dissolution of a Time Traveler,” “Meditations on Municipal Revenge,”                             “Totalitarian Methods of the New Trapeze Tutor,” “Portrait of the Body Post-Hibernation,” and                           “Exploration of the Self as Separate Species”

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           *Winner of the 2016 Ninth Letter Award, selected by Tarfia Faizullah 

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Thrush Poetry Journal: "Equine Elegies"

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Southern Humanities Review: “Instructions for Stepping Out of Line at a Theme Park”

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Hayden's Ferry Review: “Portrait of the Body in a Bed Sheet with Eyeholes” and “Healthcare Plans for the                                                   Modern Hypochondriac”

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CutBank: “Sudden Onset of Scelerophobia”

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New South: “City of Stilt Makers”

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Puerto Del Sol: “Extremophiles”

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Permafrost: Five Poems

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Sonora Review: “Animalignancy”

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Midwestern Gothic: “Diadromy”

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Bayou Magazine: “Portrait of the Body with Bear Trap”

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Softblow: "In the God-Awful Age of Everyone"  

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The Adroit Journal: "Miscellanea of Whatever Reservations I Had About the Reservoir" 

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