Poet
Iowa City,
IA
Iowa US
Email:
Publications & Prizes
Anthologies:
Purr and Yowl: An Anthology of Poetry About Cats (World Enough Writers, 2023)
, Extreme Sonnets II (Rhizome Press, 2022)
, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle (Kelsay Books, 2018)
, Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2016)
, Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy (Texas Tech University Press, 2015)
, Irresistible Sonnets (Headmistress Press, 2014)
, Taking Turns: Sonnets from Eratosphere (Maverick Duck Press, 2012)
, Villanelles (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)
, Hot Sonnets (Entasis Press, 2011)
, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press, 2011)
, Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements (Doggerel Daze Press, 2005)
, Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (University of Evansville Press, 2005)
Books:
Selected Epigrams (Translations of Martial) (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)
, The Whetstone Misses the Knife (Story Line Press, 2014)
, The Best Disguise (University of Evansville Press, 2009)
Chapbook:
Holding Patterns (Finishing Line Press, 2006)
Journals:
14 by 14: the lean sonnet zine
, , Alabama Literary Review
, American Arts Quarterly
, American Journal of Poetry
, Amethyst Review
, Arion
, Artword Quarterly
, Atlanta Review
, , , Blue Unicorn
, Bumbershoot
, Classical Outlook
, Comstock Review
, Concise Delight
, Cosmic Daffodil Journal
, Dust & Fire
, , , Exchanges
, First Things
, Formalist
, Free Inquiry
, , , Iambs & Trochees
, , , Kalliope
, Light
, Light Quarterly
, Lighten Up Online
, Literary Imagination
, , Lucid Rhythms
, Measure
, Metamorphoses
, Mezzo Cammin
, National Poetry Review
, Nebo
, , North Stone Review
, , Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts
, Per Contra
, , Pulsebeat Poetry Journal
, , , River Oak Review
, , Shakespeare Newsletter
, , Snakeskin
, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
, , Subtropics
, The Barefoot Muse
, The Chimaera
, The Christian Century
, The Evansville Review
, The Lyric
, The Neovictorian/Cochlea
, The Orchards Poetry Journal
, The Road Not Taken
, The Rotary Dial
, The Skinny Poetry Journal
, , Third Wednesday
, Tilt-a-Whirl
, Transference
, , Umbrella
, Unsplendid
, , Verse Wisconsin
, Victorian Violet Press & Journal
, Prizes won:
Donald Justice Poetry Prize, 2014; Richard Wilbur Award, 2009; McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, 2004; Mary Anderson Fellowship for Poetry, 1998
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Born in:
Washington,
DC
District Of Columbia
Raised in:
Oxon Hill,
MD
Maryland
Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the listed writers or their representatives.
Last update: Feb 20, 2024