You can order Joe’s books here or at your local independent bookstore. Below, you can find a sampling of work available online:
Poems
- Two poems at The Sun
- Three poems at On the Seawall
- Four poems at Beloit Poetry Journal
- Four poems at Terrain.org
- “Tell Me Whatever Will Help Me Lay Hold of the Day” at Juxtaprose
- “Backflip, Duncan, MS” at Poetry Ireland Review
- Two poems at Contra Viento
- Three poems at The Superstition Review
- Four poems at Terrain.org
- “Our Lady of Smoke” at About Place
- “Explain: Extinct” at The Missouri Review
- “Explain: Wolves” at Linebreak
- Two poems at Diode
- Two poems at Terrain.org
- Three poems at Ecotone
- “The World in Which You Live, Just As it Is” at Ascent
- “Ragged Point Road [Why in the night]” at The Coachella Review
- Two poems at Terrain.org
- “Wish” at Blackbird
- “Notes from the Journey Westward” at Adroit
- “Eight Letters of Explanation, Acknowledgment, & Apology on the Occasion of My Son’s First Birthday” at Michigan Quarterly Review
- “Eat Stone and Go On” at Tupelo Quarterly
- “Trotline” at Tupelo Quarterly
- “Reckoning” at Verse Daily
- “Drought” at Orion
- “Absence” at Linebreak
- “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food,” at Slate
- “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations” at Contrary
- “Leviathan” at Linebreak
- “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog” at Terrain
- “Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas” at Blackbird
- “The Names” at Slate
- “The Big Dry, Montana, 1985″ and “The Stone Eater” at diode
Essays
- “Crossing a Riven Country” at Orion
- “What Was the First Book you Fell in Love With?” at Lithub
- “Where Paradise Lay” at Orion
- Recommended Reading at Orion
- “On Edges” at Orion
- “What I Wish My Children Could Learn from My Rural Upbringing” at Lithub
- “Letter to America” at Terrain.org
- Selection from “Dry Season” at The Sun
- “Oregon Trail” at Wabash Magazine
- “Down on Mountain Pocket” at High Country News
- Selection from “Bruised” at The Sun
- An editorial at High Country News
- “All the Forces at Work Here” at Brevity
- “Out West” at Orion
- “Of Blood and Bone” at Orion
- “The Book of Water” at Terrain.org
- Excerpt from “Boys” at Ecotone
Fiction
- “Every Moment Shines, When You Cut it Open” at Moss
- “Others Who Were Here” at Blood Orange Review
- “The Ditchrider” at TriQuarterly
- “Certain Birds” at About Place
- Selection from “Boys, Ten In All” at The Sun
- “Say” at The Utne Reader
Interviews
- An interview at Adroit
- Radio Interview with Sarah Aronson at The Write Question
- A poem and an interview at The Swamp
- An interview at Spoken Words
- A conversation with The Write Question
- A profile at GIA
- “Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins” an introduction and interview at Tupelo Quarterly
- Radio interview with The Write Question on MTPR
- An interview about The Mountain and the Fathers by Scott Gast of Orion Magazine
Video
- A Short reading for Fishtrap during Quarantine
- Pam Houston, Luis Urrea, and Joe Wilkins for the paperback release of Fall Back Down When I Die
- A Short Reading from Fall Back Down When I Die for Solid State Books
- Fall Back Down When I Die book trailer
- Language, Memory and Story
- Pam Houston and Joe Wilkins
You can find full text selections of my writing, as well as video and other great stuff, at Digital Commons@Linfield: Where Scholarship Meets Community.