Selected Writing
“When I Play the New York Times Daily Puzzle,” Had
I Kissed Dating Goodbye Erasures: “Here I Am” & “An Honest Story,” Tinderbox
“To the Woman Dragging Her Son Across Water Street,” Los Angeles Review
“What’s the Point…” Brevity Blog
“When I Am 19, a Woman I’ve Called about a Job Starts Telling Me about Her White Trash Neighbors,” Apogee
“One Day I’ll Tell My Daughter Our Origin Story,” North American Review
“To the Protestor in Front of the Flushing Road Family Planning Clinic,” Prairie Schooner
“Don’t Touch,” The Slowdown
“When I Am 317 Pounds My Friends Do Not Wait for Me to Catch up to Them on a Sidewalk,” the Cincinnati Review
“After Another Day of Mothering Screw-Ups, I Watch Jake Gyllenhaal Try to Solve a Kidnapping,” Sixth Finch
“No One in This Dumb Bar Will Acknowledge How Famous We Are,” Rhino
“If A Realtor Asks What I’m Looking for, Here Is What I Will Not Tell Her,” the Missouri Review
“Field Notes for the Interrogation of Johnny S., Bully of 6th Grade Advanced Math,” Bodega
“A Poem for the Girls Who Thought about Joining the Wrestling Team but Didn't,” The Rupture
“The Space Explorer Ponders His Break Up from the Outer Reaches of the Galaxy,” Necessary Fiction
“After Losing 113 Pounds, Diet Alone is Not Enough to Keep the Weight Coming Off,” Brevity
“During the Pumpkin Festival in Caseville, I Spot a Girl from Sixth Period Geometry,” Lumina
“On Getting a Facial at the Strip Mall,” Hobart
“Baby, Your Daddy Called to Say He Gave Us Chlamydia,” The Baltimore Review
“At Dinner the Lady We Are with Makes a Joke about Mosquito-Borne Illness,” The Common
“Picking Up a Prescription for My Daughter…” Typo
“How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan,” Copper Nickel
“Brother Gets Transferred Out of Solitary and Swears Jesus Planned It All,” the Christian Century
“Where the Pontiac Broke Down,” Waxwing
“Six Reasons I Can’t Answer the Door for You at Three in the Morning,” Rattle
“When I Am 12 and Jeremy is 11, We Find a Dead Deer by the Railroad Tracks,” Columbia Poetry Review
“Brother Says in 1996, He Saw His Buddy Shoot a Girl,” The Journal
“Oh My God, I Can’t Write Another Poem About the Time We Couldn’t Fall in Love,” Sixth Finch
“Questions Other Kids Ask My Brothers at Camp,” elsewhere
“What I Know About Men,” New Orleans Review
“The Disagreement,” Nashville Review
“Another Poem in which You Die,” Cutbank
4 poems, Spork
“The Hole,” Conte
“The Landing,” Booth
“How I Wanted You to Find Me” and “What You Have in Common with God,” Guernica
“A Change of Plan,” Bartleby Snopes
“What I Told God,” Smokelong Quarterly
"The New Planet After You,” Wigleaf
“Self-Portrait on Pop Rocks” DIAGRAM