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Selected Poems

"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" and "Heirloom" at Couplet Poetry
November 2024

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"Learned Helplessness" and "Glamping" at Sixth Finch

October 2023

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"Why Don't We Paint the Town" and "The Standard" at Identity Theory

July 2023

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"Mother's Day" and "Selling Sunset" at Sweet Literary Magazine
May 2023

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"Training" at Verse Daily (originally published in The Cincinnati Review)

September 2022

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"Valentine" at Hayden's Ferry Review
April 2022

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"Retreat" and "People I Envy the Most" at The Shore
March 2022

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"Scold's Bridle" at Verse Daily (originally in Salt Hill)
May 2021

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"Luster" at Verse Daily (originally in Southern Indiana Review)
June 2021

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"Dark Hollow Falls" at Hoxie Gorge Review
August 2020

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"Fire Breathing" at Rappahannock Review

January 2020

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"Gather" at Southern Indiana Review
Fall 2019

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"Two Truths & A Lie" at The Shallow Ends
December 2018

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"Vow" at The Boiler Journal

September 2018
 

"Summons" at Four Way Review

April 2018

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"Things People Say to Me After" at The Rumpus

April 2018

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"Lady Smith" at 32 Poems

January 2018

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"Path of Totality" at Cincinnati Review miCRo

October 2017

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"Encore" at Juked

July 2017

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Three Poems at Heavy Feather Review
Summer 2017

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"No Other Appetite," "Ode to Stairmaster," and "My Love and I Are Inventing a Country" at Waxwing Literary Journal

October 2016

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