POEMS
The Rumpus (forthcoming)
“Every Poem Has a Winner”

Indiana Review (forthcoming)
“I Have Been Directed to the Lower Highland Lake”

Tupelo Press, The Writes of Spring anthology (forthcoming 2027)
“Spoke”
“The First Spring” [via The Massachusetts Review]

West Branch (Spring 2026)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 38”
“Psalm 102”
“Psalm 130”

Sontag Mag (Spring 2026)
“Lightproof”
“I Would Call You Girl”

The Massachusetts Review (Spring 2026)
“The First Spring”

Changes Review (Spring 2026)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 32”
“Psalm 51”

CutBank (Spring 2026)
“Light Show”

Lana Turner (Spring 2026)
“Feeder”

Poetry Nightly via Kismet (Winter 2025)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 6”

Kismet (November 2025)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 6”
[selected for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations series]

Washington Square Review (Fall 2025)
“On a Porch at 6PM Outside Laramie, WY”
“Two Step”
“Rhododendrons”
“Larissa the Real Girl”
“No Lamb, Larissa”

32 Poems (Summer 2025)
“Day 2”
[nominated for Best New Poets 2026]

New Ohio Review (Summer 2025)
“Miracle-Proof”

House House (Spring 2025)
“Okay Angel”

The Missouri Review (Spring 2025)
“Orioles”

West Branch (Spring 2025)
“Make Me the Wound to You”
[nominated for Orison’s Best Spiritual Literature]

EcoTheo Review (Winter 2024)
“Sinks Canyon”

The Adroit Journal (Fall 2024)
“Reverse Economy”

The Boiler (Fall 2024)
“Eating the Thing Like Joy”

Image (Summer 2024)
“For the Circumcision of a Small City”
[reviewed at Art and Theology]

North American Review (Summer 2024)
“Trouble is a Tall Man”

Denver Quarterly (Spring 2024)
“Monotheism”
“We Would Tell You in Every Tongue”

Colorado Review (Spring 2023)
“Attribute Generator”
“God Throws Me”

Conjunctions (Fall 2021)
“After the Feast”
“The One and the Many”
“Last Light in the Garden”
“Self-Portrait As I’m Admitting It”
“Saturday”

Frontier Poetry (Fall 2021)
“Ekphrastic for Missing Bosch Figure”

Colorado Review (Spring 2020)
“Poem Written Backwards”

The Harvard Advocate: The Women’s Issue (Spring 2019)
“Poem Wet Only to the Knees”

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