“He doesn’t know that poets can’t become famous / anymore”
“Final Boy Ponders the Lack of Grief in Slashers” and “Self-Portrait as a Car That Won’t Start in a Slasher.” The American Poetry Review. Forthcoming.
“Self-Portrait as Mistaken Final Girl” and “Self-Portrait as Julia Killing Frank.” Rhino. Forthcoming.
“A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).” Bombay Gin. 2024.
“In Life We Do Not Get Divorced.” Lips. 2024.
“Final Boy Asks About the Woman in the Trash Chute.” Sprung Formal, Issue 19, May 2024.
“In Life Scientists Confirm the Sixth Extinction Is Underway.” The Cortland Review, Issue 92, 2024.
“Final Boy Ponders the Slash.” Palette Poetry. Featured Poem, January 22, 2024.
“Final Boy Plans to Save All the Dark-Haired Boys of Crystal Lake.” Bodega Magazine. Issue 131, November 2023.
“Final Boy Finding a Husband.” Fourteen Poems. Issue 11, August 2023.
“Excerpts from ‘Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film’ by Carol J. Clover.” New Words. Issue 1, June 2023.
“In Life I Wonder Where Have All the Dead Boys Gone?” The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review. June 20, 2023.
“In Life We Pervert as Verb,” “In Life We Will Always Be Perverts (Midcentury Edition),” and “In Life We Pervert as Verb.” The /tƐmz/ Review. Issue 23. May 2023.
“Self-Portrait as a Queer Slasher.” Queerlings. Issue 7, April 2023.
“In Life the Woman Sitting Next to Me on the Plane Asks What Happens if a Big Wave Hits New York City?.” Impossible Archetype. Issue 12, September 2022.
“In Life My Co-Worker Says She Bought Her Forever Home.” Tilted House. June, 2022.
“In Life My Husband Helps Put a Woman Back Together Again” and “In Life We Dance at a Gay Bar Named After a Dead First Lady.” The American Poetry Review. Vol. 49 No. 5 Sept/Oct 2020.
“Risk Factor.” Impossible Archetype. Issue 7, March 2020.
“In Life We Do Not Drive by JonBenét Ramsey’s House but Do Buy Edibles” and “In Life Our Taxi Driver Sings Frank Sinatra to Us on the Way Back from the Gay Sauna in Greece.” Columbia Poetry Review, Spring Issue 2019.
“Once I Start Remembering So Much Comes Back.” Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman. Edited by Raymond Luczak. Squares and Rebels Press. 2019.
“In Death the Anal Passage Reveals Signs of Sodomy,” “They Have Wives and Goldfish of Their Own,” and “What I’ve Got They Used to Call the Blues.” The Account, Fall 2018.
“In Life We Want Answers About Death.” Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Poets Resist: 2018 Midterm Elections Special Feature, November 6, 2018.
“Homosexuals Die at the End,” “What’s in a Name?”, and “Parallels.” Pinwheel Journal. Issue 15, October 2018.
“Domestic Terror.” Impossible Archetype. Issue 3, February 2018.
"Inside the Outside," "The Act of Vanishing," "My Parents Talk of Sparrows," and "Pondering Whiteface in Chinese Cinema While Rereading Frank O'Hara's 'In the Movies.'" Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos edited by Maureen Seaton and Neil de la Flor. Anhinga Press, 2018.
"Cartography." Queen Mob's Tea House. October 2017.
"Suicide by Film." Ghost Parachute. May 2017.
"My Jesus Year." The Account. Spring 2017.
"Imagining Your Brain in Someone Else's Hands." Impossible Archetype. Issue 1, March 2017.
"The Day Miss Cleo Died" and "On Watching the O.J. Simpson Verdict." Midwestern Gothic. Winter 2017.
"For Blond Boys Hit by Cars." The Good Men Project. January 27, 2017.
"How We Became Sluts" and "My Students Talk of Color." Queen Mob's Tea House. July 19, 2016.
"A Brief History of How My Parents Didn't Die." Tahoma Literary Review. 2.3, December 2015.
"Migration," "My Mother Talks of Ghost," and "My Husband Talks of Floating." Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. Issue 19, July 2015.
"On Becoming Domestic Partners, Orlando 2012." Los Angeles Review. Issue 16, Winter 2015.
"Why Raping Men is Funny." Codex Journal. Fall 2014.
"Even Drag Queens are Christian in the South." The Queer South. Edited by Douglas Ray. Sibling Rivalry Press. 2014.
"A History of Marriage" and "Slicing Limes for Dustin." The Account. Issue 2, Spring 2014.
"Doubles." SmokeLong Quarterly. Issue 43, March 24, 2014.
"Counting Bears" and "A History of the Unmarried." Weave. Issue 11, 2014
“I’m Supposed to Start with the Last Time I Saw You.” The Good Men Project. March 7, 2014.
“Election Night, 2008,” “Us Gays Call You Auntie Sylvia,” “The Man in the Bar Says I Have a Michael Jackson Voice,” “Standing in Front of Jackson Pollock’s Greyed Rainbow, Chicago, 2012,” Tilda Swinton is Sleeping in the MoMA Today,” and “On Turning Thirty.” Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. Issue 13, January 2014.
“Real Men Love Jesus.” Between: New Gay Poetry. Edited by Jameson Currier. Chelsea Station Editions. 2013.
“Tonight I Dream of January Jones in a Supermarket in Florida.” Hobble Creek Review. Fall Issue, 2013.
“After We Watch The History Boys in Class, My Students Fear I Want to Fondle Them” and “St. Stephen Contemplates Speaking to High School Students About Poetry.” This assignment is so gay: lgbtiq poets on the art of teaching. Sibling Rivalry Press. August 2013.
“Someone Somewhere is Googling “Stonewall,” Inauguration Day 2013” and “Not Telling My Parents I’m in Therapy While Driving Over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Which Collapsed 31 Years Ago.” Referential Magazine. Summer 2013.
“Watching Sylvia While You Cart the Dying.” Berfrois. April 18, 2013.
“This Side Up,” “To My Best Friend in High School Upon the Birth of His First Child,” “Frank O’Hara Wrote a Poem Called ‘Olive Garden,’” and “Trying to Convince My Aunt to Vote Democrat, October 2008.” Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience. Squares and Rebels. Fall 2012.
“The War in Iraq is Over and I’m Thinking of Oranges.” Berfrois. March 15, 2012.
“Last Night Out.” Quarterly West. Spring Issue, 2012.
“Seeing a Dead Lizard After Reading Mark Doty’s ‘Turtle, Swan’” and “The Man on the Radio Says Boys Don’t Want to be Astronauts Anymore.” Grist. Issue 5, 2012.
“Sex Education.” PANK. February 2012.
“Real Men Love Jesus” and “Warning: In Case of Rapture This Vehicle Will Be Unmanned.” Chelsea Station. Issue 1, November 2011.
“Visiting My Parents After Watching For the Love of Dolly.” Mary Literary Quarterly. Spring/Summer 2011 Issue.
“Dreaming of James Franco.” Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. Issue 3.
“A History of Blood.” New Mexico Poetry Review. Spring 2011 Issue.
“A Man Tells My Lover and Me Happy Valentine’s Day.” The Los Angeles Review. Spring 2011, Issue 9.
“Confessions of an Open Relationship.” Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. Issue 1.
“Against Our Better Judgment We Plan a Trip to Iran.” Knockout Literary Magazine. Issue 3, Spring 2010.
“A History of Hangers.” The Los Angeles Review. Issue 7, Spring 2010.
“If you were Jackson Pollock and Jackson Pollock painted nudes.” Redheaded Stepchild. Fall 2009 Issue.
“Mistaken Identity.” The Antioch Review. Summer 09 Issue.
“The scientists don’t know why the whales are beaching themselves.” The New York Quarterly. Issue 65.
“Iranian Boys Hanged for Sodomy, July 2005.” Poetic Voices Without Borders 2. Gival Press, 2009. This poem was also the winner of the 2008 Oscar Wilde Poetry Award.
“My Father Calls With More Bad News,” “Protesting the Circus After Watching 12 Monkeys,” “Sleeping with Peter Pan,” and “Sleeping with Robin Hood.” PANK. February 2009.
“An Obituary for My Mother Who Did Not Die in the Richmond, IN Explosion, 1968.” The Broken Bridge Review. Fall 2008 Issue.
“Arguing Over Reality After You Claim to Have Seen Brad Pitt Getting in a Taxi,” “Making Love After Watching Interview with the Vampire,” “Questioning Our Future After Watching Fight Club,” and “Trying to Sleep After Watching Thelma and Louise.” Hoboeye. 3.1 Issue, 2008.
“In Defense of Marriage.” The Gay and Lesbian Review. Jan/Feb 2008 Issue.
“My father reads my poem in a Chinese restaurant.” Juked. May 2007.
