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A sampling of work available online:
Poems
- Two poems at iO Poetry
- “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food,” at Slate
- “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations” at Contrary
- “Anniversary” at The Adirondack Review
- “The eye of the radio was red, and its round mouth was talking–” at Orion
- “Hayrake” at Beloit Poetry Journal
- “Letter to My Unborn Son Concerning the Peculiarities of Faith” at Shaking
- “Colic” at Conte
- A portfolio of poems at Escape Into Life
- “Memphis Closes Her Eyes” at Black Lawrence Press
- Audio for “Letter to My Son Concerning Our First Night of Birthing Class” at Two Weeks
- “Six Days’ Lament” at Mayday
- “Each Word Holds the World” at Mayday
- “Mission School, 1922: What She Remembered” at Linebreak
- A portfolio of poems at Escape Into Life
- “Anniversary” and “On Oblivion” at Memoir(and)
- “Notes from the Journey Westward” at Beloit Poetry Journal
- “Leviathan” at Linebreak
- “The Fixt and Random Universe Is Seen to Move” at Orion
- “Then I Packed You up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back” at The Vibrant Word website
- “A Roadside Diner in Iowa” at the BLP Blog
- “Encomium: Highway 49 South” at Linebreak
- “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog” at Terrain
- “Near the End of It, or Six Little Revolutions” and “Spiritual” at Sweet
- “Manifesto” at Evergreen Review
- “Somewhere South of Miles City” at Linebreak
- “Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas” at Blackbird
- “The Names” at Slate
- “The Big Dry, Montana, 1985″ and “The Stone Eater” at diode
- “Meditation on the Treason of His Body” at Broadsided Press
- “Daybreak, Spokane, September 2001“; “Five Dreams from Home“; “Voice of the Father“; and “North Carolina by Greyhound” at Boxcar Poetry Review
- “Furlough” at Stone’s Throw
- “I Go Out and Bring in Bones” and “The Other River” at Pank
- “Houston Sonnet” and “Mississippi Sonnet” at Pank
Essays
- Killing the Murnion Dogs Playlist at Largehearted Boy
- “The Genesis of ‘Enough of Me’” at High Desert Journal
- “All the Forces at Work Here” at Brevity
- Neo-Western Top Ten List at Dzanc Books
- “My Mother’s Story: Retold and Annotated” at The Briar Cliff Review
- “Out West” at Orion
- “Of Blood and Bone“ at Orion
- “The Book of Water” at Terrain.org
- A short excerpt from “Boys” at Ecotone
- A short excerpt from “Mississippi Stories” at The Missouri Review
- A short excerpt from “Eight Fragments from My Grandfather’s Body” at The Georgia Review
Fiction
- “Enough of Me” at High Desert Journal
Interviews
- A first-book interview at iO Poetry
- Another short interview for BLP’s National Poetry Month Spotlight
- A short interview for Black Lawrence Press’s National Poetry Month Spotlight
- An interview by the editors of Linebreak
- An interview by the editors of Broadsided Press
- An interview with Kim Barnes (by me) in the High Country News
Reviews
- Review of Beautiful Country at Orion
- Review of World Enough for Orion
- Review of When Things Get Dark for Orion
- Review of Things We Didn’t See Coming for Orion
