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      My poems have appeared in many literary journals including the American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Southern
Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, New Letters

and Harvard Review to name a few. My book, The Soup
of Something Missing
, was published by Bear Star Press;
and The Invention of Fiction is from Hollyridge Press.

Here are some poems, just click the title:
You Can Talk to a Ghost All You Want
The Argonaut Years
Macrocephalus
The Growers of Olive Trees
Then What
The Baker's Cross-Eyed Daughter
Sutra
The Waiting
The Surface of the Tongue
The Grandeur
Judas
Samson
The Scratch
The Plan