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Blood Almanac, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, published by Anhinga Press.

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Individual Poems Not in a Collection, with Thanks to the Editors and Readers
*Poems available online are linked at the title.

"A Dark, Gelatinous Ruin" Hotel Amerika  Forthcoming
"Too Simple a Reason"  The Book of Scented Things  Forthcoming Spring 2014 from The Literary House Press
"To Tamper and Tame Me Piece by Piece"  Sou'wester  Forthcoming
"The Definition of a Febrile BodyThe Southeast Review   Forthcoming
"The Alchemy of My Mortal Form"  Anti-   Forthcoming
"I Have Gone Shimmering into Ungentle Sleep" and "Left a Refugee Here in a Sterile Country"  Hayden's Ferry Review   Forthcoming

"11 General Orders of a Mystic" and "Over Which a Feast Weight Passes"  Copper Nickel  
"To Parse To Save One Must State the Relevant"  Bellevue Literary Review 
"This Vigil I Keep for Comfort"   Grist 
"Cornfield, USA II"   Big Muddy 
"I, Who have been Pressed & Prettied," "Offered Passage, Offered Healing," "Red & Reeling from the Journey," and "Transformation, Definitive Notes in a Learned HandConnotation Press   
"Awash in Hunger for the Pistil and the Stamen" and "Small-Time Rapture"  Barn Owl Review
"Haunting Tale of Girls and Weathered Barns"  Weave 
"Some Forgotten Fever"  Redactions     
"After," "Fairy Tale for the Girl with a Fever of Unknown Origin," "Haunting Tale for Drowned Girls," "Haunting Tale for Girls Embraced by Snow," and "Fairy Tale for Girls Held Captive"    Toad Suck Review  
"You Taught Me DevastationThrush  
"Fairy Tale for Girls who Seek to Meet the Horizon"   Crab Orchard Review   
"Having Been Outside the Body"   North American Review  
"We Live in Black & White"  Crazyhorse
"The Ashes of My Familiar"  32 Poems
"Fevers of a Minor FireLinebreak
"Autobiography as Muscle Memory"   Glass 
"Autobiography as Cartography" and "Autobiography as Cartography IIThe Collagist
"Cornfield, USA" and "The Way She Knows the World to Work"  Crab Creek Review
"ProphecyConte
"Cornfield, USA III" and "Inventing a Rain Spell"   Sou'wester
"Fairy Tale for Girls who Gather MapsPebble Lake Review  
"Cautionary Tale for Girls Kept Underground"  Natural Bridge
"The Contents of our Tales"   Blossombones
"Cautionary Tale for Girls and Birds of Prey"    Waccamaw
"The Summer Saint"   Valparaiso Poetry Review
"The Nature of Conflict," "Lament at the End of a Long Convalescence," and "Vespula CuresConnotation Press
"Litany for an Insomniac"  Cincinnati Review
"Cautionary Tale for Girls Caught Up in the Machinery"   South Dakota Review
"Requiem for the Girl with Sparrow Wings for a Heart," "This is Not My Body, This Body that Refuses" and "The Wife Who Wanders Explains her Actions"   diode
"The Starving SaintThe Rumpus
"Divining the Source of Our Conversion" and "To the Extinct Tall-Grass Prairie"  Roger
"2011" and "For Beaufort's Distant Landlocked Daughter"  Adanna
"In a Horseless Country"   New South
"Fairy Tale for Girls Enthralled by the Storm," "The Fledgling Saint," "Midwest Nursery Tales," and "The Once-Winged Saint"  Escape into Life
"Backdrop for an Archetypal Bloodline" and "Urban Archaeology: Reading the RemainsAnti-
"Pantoum for the Landlocked Girl"  Redivider
"When the Weather Forms a Holding Pattern"   The Dirty Napkin
"Sharper than this Body"  Lake Effect
"What Devours Us is Worth Devouring"  Spillway
"Flood Plain"   Glass
"Crouching in the Body's Dusty Ruins," "In the Winter Garden," "The Winter Saint," and "Having Been Entrusted with the Safekeeping"   New Madrid 
"Body Sewn Together with Twine and a Dull NeedleThe Collagist  
"Naming the Storm" and "Estate Planning: Reliquaries"  Passages North 
"Late Aubade," "Pilgrimmage," "The Penitent Boy Visits the Grave of His Father," and "The Stone Saint"   Connotation Press
"Our Hands Filling Up with All there is Left to Rescue"  Georgetown Review 
"Assets & Heirs" and "Because Once All Mapmakers were IllusionistsTerrain.org
"Glacial Elegy III"  Crab Orchard Review 
"Glacial Elegy II" and "Testament"   The Pinch 
"Listening for the Dead"   Hobble Creek Review
"Prairie Innocent"  Cream City Review
"The Mortician's Wife," "The Mortician's Daughter," "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds," and "And Sweet Were the Uses"  Copper Nickel
"Enough Green for the Trees," "It Matters, the Kind of Wound," and "The Way a Northern Girl Sleeps"  American Poetry Journal
"Amnesty," "Spiral Song - Father," "Spiral Song - Mother," and "Triolet with a Line by Jean Senacdiode 
"If Given the Chance" and "June Meditations42Opus
"Myth BornFree Verse
"Voice Box"  Redactions
"Glacial Elegy I"  Cave Wall
"For the One Pulled North"  Grist
"The Museum of My Childhood" and "River Years"  Meridian
"Requiem"  New South
"Honor Thy"   Linebreak
"What Makes the Body Universaldiode
"On the Fabric of the Human Body: Book 1: Chapter 19: On the Bones of the ThoraxThe Dirty Napkin
"Why the Wind"  New Delta Review
"Two Points in Need of an Argument" and "Choosing Not to Bear"  Zone 3
"Having Been Begotten"   Indiana Review
"Of Mortal Men and Women"  Quarterly West
"Nothing is haunted"  West Branch 
"Disclaimer" and "'Touch Me' Misread as 'Torch Me'"   Redivider
"Winter Psalm" and "Dispatch from the OutpostBlackbird  
"Berries Frozen in Fog"   MARGIE