I started as a poet but then began writing humor for such outlets as the New Yorker, the Onion, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. I also wrote comedy for television (Politically Incorrect and the Late Late Show) and for radio (The Complete Sheet and American Comedy Network). In 2002 I founded the literary humor site TheBigJewel.com, which became dormant 17 years later in 2019, with an archive that will remain available online. In 2017 Sagging Meniscus Press published my humor collection, It's Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny). Recently I returned to poetry and finally started sending it out, landing many publications: The American Journal of Poetry, Antiphon, Atlanta Review, The Big Windows Review, The Bitter Oleander, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Bracken Magazine, Burningword Literary Journal, The Closed Eye Open, Clover: A Literary Rag, Constellate, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Emrys Journal, Exacting Clam, The Fieldstone Review, Fjords Review, Former People Journal, The Furious Gazelle, The Green Light Literary Journal, Grey Sparrow Journal, Harpoon Review, The Ibis Head Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Into the Void, JMWW, Light, London Grip, MacQueen's Quinterly, Minetta Review, MockingHeart Review, The Moving Force Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, The New Guard Literary Review, Noctua Literary Review, The Nonconformist, The Opiate, Otis Nebula, pamplemousse, Paper Dragon, The Penn Review, Phantom Drift, La Piccioletta Barca, pioneertown, Plume Poetry Journal, The Poet's Billow, Poydras Review, Quail Bell Magazine, Reed Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, Roanoke Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Shot Glass Journal, Soundings East, South Florida Poetry Journal, Star*Line, The Sun Magazine, TAB Journal, Talking Gourds - Telluride Institute Literary Arts Festival, Third Coast, Third Wednesday Magazine, Triggerfish Critical Review, Two Thirds North, Verdad Magazine, Verse-Virtual, Wild Roof Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, Willawaw Journal, Yemassee Journal. My first poetry chapbook, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other, was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. My first full-length poetry collection, Falling in the Direction of Up, was published in May 2021 from Sagging Meniscus Press. In 2022 SurVision Books in Dublin published my poetry chapbook The Sound of One Hand Slapping, after it was named one of the winners of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2021. Sagging Meniscus published my second full-length poetry collection in 2024, Death Row Row Row Your Boat. In 2025 Sagging Meniscus will also publish my book of essays and poems responding to favorite poems, Tributaries.
