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Recent Publications

Poems:

  • Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight: Photo of Me Standing In My Father’s Hand and Emptying the House

  • Rabbit Room Poetry: If I Had Not Been Writing the Poem

  • Coffee + Crumbs: An Elegy for Bees

  • Cumberland River Review: What Kind of Star Is Our Sun

  • New Verse Review: Buying My Daughter’s Second-Hand Violin

  • Sundress Publications #bestdressed: Fern at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital; Warm Winter, Arkansas; Backyard Sabbath; and Ode to the Daffodil.

  • Valiant Scribe: Even Jesus Asked Where God Was

  • Baltimore Review: Every Now and Then the Yard Caught Fire

  • Jarfly: Love After Diagnosis and Taxes

  • storySouth: Winter After the Stillbirth and Hanging Christmas Lights After the Stillbirth

  • Contrary: Fern at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital and With Kit, Age 7, Outside the Hospital

  • Shenandoah: Secret


Essays & Interviews:

  • Poets & Writers: The Three-Day Writing Detox

  • Writing Workshops Online: On Teaching Louise Gluck

  • Let Go the Goat Podcast: Interview on Poetry for Life

  • Belle Point Press Substack: Author Interview: Renee Emerson

  • Speaking of Marvels: Interview on The Commonplace Misfortunes of Everyday Plants (Belle Point Press)

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