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I am proud to announce that I have been nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily for my poem, "Silicon Valley Ghazal." Thank you to Autumn Sky for supporting my writing in this way. You can read the other nominees from Autumn Sky here .

Five new poems are now published and available at A Thin Slice of Anxiety . You can read the selection here .

Issue 1 of Symphonies of Imagination in which my poem, "In the Rubble of Babel" is included, is now available. You can purchase a print or digital version of the issue here . This is an exciting new journal with a great vision behind it, and I am very happy to be involved in getting the first issue off the ground! A sample of the poem: In the Rubble of Babel The world’s been smashed to bits so many times— innumerable times—and every time we try to put it together again, we never can; we balance, with held breath, a piece atop a piece—the peace explodes, goes careening back to blueprints...

The final of my miniMag poems in now available in Issue 104. You can read it here , beginning on page 10. Thank you to miniMag for being a great home for so much of my recent work.

Now out in Millennial Pulp , Volume 4, available exclusively in print. You can purchase a copy here . Here is a taste of the poem: Re: Little Green Men The morning that the news breaks out and all the talking heads announce, they’re real, they’re here, they’re among us...

The second of my miniMag poems, "Something's Rotten in the State of Oz" is now out. You can read it here on page ten.

My Poem, "Parade [Art Installations]" is now available to read in miniMag Issue 101. I will have a few more pieces coming out with miniMag in the coming weeks, so be sure to look out for those. You can read the poem, which appears on page 2 of the issue, here. I've included an excerpt below. Parade [Art Installations] The wind is over-strong and so balloons are left half-inflated— Snoopy’s nose caves in, and his paw drags feebly along the pavement. On either side: bodies pack in, retained by frosty rent-a-fence. [ Imagine an installation: a wide wall painted black, a grid of porcelain noses affixed, as if cold bodies are ghosting through the wall, but only make it nose-far before their magic’s spent...

Exomorphosis, the 2024 edition of Havik, which features my poem, "Cyberpunk Protagonist," is now available. A print copy can be purchased here, while the collection can be read in digital format here. "Cyberpunk Protagonist" appears on page 243.

The 2024 edition of the Clackamas Literary Review is now available for purchase! My poem, "It Still Comes To Mind," is featured in the collection. You can purchase the edition here. I may or may not post "It Still Comes To Mind," here on the website at some point, but I've decided to keep it exclusive to the collection for now, other than a small sample you can read below. It Still Comes To Mind Dad had cried at the makeshift Holocaust museum that our eighth-grade class had made. It was comprised, mostly, of diaries: imagined artifacts, once held by hands whose youth, whose hopes, whose warmth had been too brief...

I am excited to announce that the inaugural issue of the Quibble Quarterly, dubbed "Ripple," is now available in print! You can buy the issue here, or subscribe to the quarterly here at a discounted rate. My poem, "Triptych: Squashed Bird on Driveway," is included in the collection alongside other great writing and art from over fifty contributors. Additionally, be on the lookout for new poetry forthcoming in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Prairie Home Magazine, Symphonies of Imagination, and Pittsburgh's own Oakland Review. I've now cleared thirty poems (!) accepted for publication in over a dozen outlets - I am very grateful to the editors and readers who have supported my work.

I'm very glad to be a part of new literary magazine Prairie Home's second ever issue, in which my poem "After" is featured. Read it here.

My poem, "When Lovely Words Will Not Appear," a kind of ode to writer's block, is now published in Uppagus Issue 62. You can read the full poem here. When Lovely Words Will Not Appear They are not in the fragile rim Of that white, porcelain vase Placed, to beautify the foyer, Atop the claw foot table there...