books

Dark Under Kiganda StarsDark Under Kiganda Stars
Ausable Press (now Copper Canyon), 2005

Reviews
West Branch: "Fascinating poems, sharply observant, richly felt, and, at their best, formally keen."
Kingdom Books: "This is a remarkably honest collection."

Interviews
Leonard Schwartz for Cross Cultural Poetics

Excerpts
"Angel Saint" on Poets.org
"Hut Hurt Hat Heart" on Verse Daily
"On Not Caning My Students" on Guernica

Purchase
Amazon
Powells
Copper Canyon Press


Pantry
Finalist for the 2011 Dorset Prize with Tupelo Press

Excerpts
"Apron," Sycamore Review
"Asking for Everything" Guernica
"Ditch work, come home early," Juked
Egg Topper,” Agni
"Exceptions With The Sloughing Off" Rattle
"I am the city and you are my work of great mischief." Blackbird
"Ladle" Superstition Review, audio recording
"Mortar & Pestle" Superstition Review
"My entire childhood I thought there is no mystery" 42opus
"Orange, the juice, the rind, the pulp;" Free Verse
"Ramekin," Connotation Press
"Reamer," Connotation Press
"Refusal" Agni
"Rolling Pin" Superstition Review
"Spoon Rest" Superstition Review
"The city was burning — or it wasn't." Blackbird
"The Force that Drives" Fault
"The world is my," Blackbird
"Then there was no body but a," Sycamore Review
"Trivet," Connotation Press
"What They Tell You" Blackbird
"Whisk" Superstition Review

anthologies

Boxcar Poetry Review 2009 Anthology, 2009
“To Her Camisoles”

An Ausable Reader, edited by Chase Twichell, Ausable Press, 2008
“Teach Anything,” “I Thought She was Singing, ”“Chewing, ” “Dark Under Kiganda Stars, ” “Proverb XII: The Hunter”

New Voices, edited by Harvery Hix, Irish Pages, 2008
“Teach Anything,” “Katende Passion Fruit and Ground Nuts,” “Immunizing in Bukoba”

Selected literary journals

32Poems
“Cleaver,” 2011

Agni
Refusal,” 2008
Egg Topper,” 2011

Barrow Street
“The night the soil stilled,” 2008

Beloit Poetry Journal
"Bread Knife," "Jam Funnel," 2011

Blackbird
"The city was burning — or it wasn't." "The world is my," "I am the city and you are my work of great mischief." "What They Tell You", 2011

Cincinnati Review
“Asking for Nothing,” 2009

Cream City Review
"Body Moving Like a Broad Stitch in Linen," "Mapleton Hill," 2008

FIELD
"Elegy for a Botanist," 2008
"Poem Talking in its Sleep about a Lake," "We Fucking Sang It," 2009

Gastronomica
“Double Boiler,” 2012

Hayden’s Ferry Review
“Skew Lines,” 2009

Kenyon Review
“Canary Bird Flower in your Chaste Tree,” 2006
"Pie Bird," 2012

Orion Magazine
“A Poet Friend Tells Me Nature Imagery is Dead,” 2006

Ploughshares
“Poem with a — in it,” 2009

Poetry Northwest
"Pear's a Medium," "If the mind ruled the body, I'd be the first to know." 2010

Prairie Schooner
“With Capsicum,” “It’s all,” 2011

Quarterly West
“My Sunlit Panes, My Housed Feast of Paperwhites,” 2009

Superstition Review
Mortar & Pestle," "Ladle," "Spoon Rest," "Rolling Pin," "Whisk," 2011

Sycamore Review
"Then there was no body but a," 2010
"Apron," 2011

book reviews

Virginia Quarterly Review
over 100 published reviews, 2005-2010, full list available upon request

Meridian
“Body of the World by Sam Taylor,” 2006

commentary