You can order Joe’s books here or at your local independent bookstore. Below, you can find a sampling of work available online:
Poems
- “Failed Index” at Southern Humanities Review
- “Ancestors” at Orion
- Three poems at About Place
- Three poems at Outskirts
- “Elegy Ending with a Slice of Sour-Cream-and-Raisin Pie” at The Florida Review
- “And Should We Stand with Arms Outstretched for a Refrain” at Out There
- Three Poems at Terrain.org
- “Elegy with Adding Machine and Milk” at The Sun
- Four poems at Terrain.org
- Four poems at The Missouri Review
- “Genealogy” at Orion
- “Certainty Is Another Word for Despair” at Traverse
- Two Poems at Sweet
- Two Poems at About Place
- Three Poems at On the Seawall
- “Dream Daughter Climbs a Boulder the Better for Us to Hear” at Modron
- “The Great Fact Was the Land Itself” at Juxtaprose
- “Hello, Brother” at EcoTheoReview
- Two poems at Ilanot Review
- “Little North Fork” at Moss
- 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
- Two poems at Contra Viento
- Four poems at Terrain.org
- “Our Lady of Smoke” at About Place
- “Explain: Extinct” at The Missouri Review
- Two poems at Terrain.org
- Three poems at Ecotone
- “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
- “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food,” at Slate
- “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations” at Contrary
- “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog” at Terrain
- “Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas” at Blackbird
- “The Names” at Slate
Essays
- “Shimmer” at The Sun
- “Seeking a Gentler Mythology of the American West” at Lithub
- “Old Friend” at The Sun
- “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
- “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
- “You, All of You” at The Sun
Fiction
- “The Empty Room Inside Each of Us” at The Sun
- “Riprap” at The Idaho Review
- “Bible Creek Fire” at Arrowsmith Journal
- “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
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