SELECTED POETRY

“Donne to Death”
Light
[forthcoming]

“Nicomachean Ethics, Condensed”
Philosophy Now
[forthcoming]

“A Sad Ballad”
Washington Post Style Invitational, 2022
read

“George Auriol to a Patron at Le Chat Noir”
Bad Lilies, 2022
read

“Even More Kilm”
Lupo, 2022
read

“Eustace McGibb”
Saturday Evening Post, 2022
read

“Nietzsche and Gorky”
Snakeskin Poetry, 2021
read

“Hesed She-sed”
Light, 2021
read

“Von Sacher-Masoch’s Rebuttal to the Golden Rule”
Society of Classical Poets Journal, 2020.
read

“Tree and Leaf”
The Lyric, 2019
read
[Winner, New England Prize]

“By a Poet of Two-and-Twenty (When Rimbaud Was Retired and Chatterton Was Dead)”
The Lyric, 2019
read

“Prayer for a Prayer by a Nonbeliever”
The North American Anglican, 2019
read

“So, Gathered Any Good Rosebuds Lately?”
The Asses of Parnassus, 2019
read

“DesCensus”
The Raintown Review, 2019
read

“Cento dei Centi”
Snakeskin Poetry, 2019.
read

“On the Uncertain Parentage of Invention”
Light, 2019.
read

“Damnatio Memoriae, or, Give Me a Wikipedia Article or Give Me Death!”
The Asses of Parnassus, 2019
read

“Bon Jour to Jenn and Cooke and Frank and Olympia”
Light, 2018
read

“Famagusta”
Lupo, 2018
read

“The Great Poet”
Measure, 2018
read

“Rebuffade”
Light, 2018
read

“Jesus Wants You to Send Me Money”
Light, 2018
read

“Lot’s Wife”
Light, 2018
read

“Reply to a Mythical Creature”
Lupo, 2017
read

“Interspection” and “Desert Kite”
Light, 2017
read

“On ‘Que Sera Sera’”
The Asses of Parnassus, 2017
read

“Much Fun”
Lupo, 2017.
read

“A poem I’ve often been begged to repeat,because it was thought an impossible feat.
(For Espy and Guiterman, Lehrer and Skeat.)”
Light, 2017.
read
[Pushcart nominee]

“There Was an Old Man of the South.”
Light, 2017. (With Edward Lear and Ronnie Barker)
read

“Daylight Saving.”
Defenestration, 2016.
read

“Haiku for Happiness.”
The Mindfulness Manual, 2016.
read

“Don’t Act Now.”
Lupo, 2016.
read

“The Phrenologist’s Other Trade.”
Light, 2016.
read

“Said Eve.”
Light, 2016.
read

“I’d Prefer Some Linguine.”
Snakeskin Poetry, 2016.
gone ☹

“Angus MacHartey’s Parties.”
Light, 2016.
read

Found poems.
Verbatim, 2015-2016.
read

“Dostoyevsky.”
Snakeskin Poetry, 2015.
gone ☹

“The Puzzlemaster’s Primer.”
Word Ways: A Journal of Recreational Linguistics, 2015.
read

“The Gazogene’s Exploded.”
Light, 2015.
read

“Form and Function.”
Snakeskin Poetry, 2014.
read

“No Pope, Radio.”
Light, 2014.
read

“Four Limericks.”
Light Quarterly, 2012.
gone ☹