Writing

You can order Joe’s books here or at your local independent bookstore. Below, you can find a sampling of work available online:

Poems

• Three poems at Contrary
• 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

• “Broken Badlands” at Orion
• “A Terrible Wind” at The Sun
• “Crossing a Riven Country, Part Two” at Orion
• “Crossing a Riven Country, Part One” 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 Oregon ArtsWatch
• 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/Audio

• Summer Fishtrap Faculty Reading 2021
• Oregon Book Award Poetry Finalists 2021
• “On Edges” at the Freeflow Podcast
• Fishtrap Summer 2021
• 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.