Poems

“Red Currants”, Red: A Hue Are You Anthology by Jambu Press // Order here

“Ham Sandwich”, long-listed by Billy Collins for the Fish Publication Poetry Prize, 2023

“Naughty Words”, Subtropics, Issue 33, 2023

“Local Library”, read during a public protest against permanent closure of a library in Aberdeen, Scotland, 2023

“Our Town”, Sisyphus, Issue 9.1: The Hope Issue by Hip Pocket Press // Listen here

“What Injures the Hive, Injures the Bee”, Sisyphus, Issue 9.1: The Hope Issue by Hip Pocket Press

“The Rain in Utah”, Nine Mile, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2023 // Order here // Listen here

“The Legend of John Dory”, Nine Mile, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2023 // Order here // Listen to Billy Collins read it // Listen to the author read it

“Megadrought”, Utah Life Magazine, March/April 2022 issue

“How to Sit with Petunias”, The Hopper, Fall 2021 Issue, 6.2 // Listen here

“The Poet”, The Ekphrastic Review, August 2021

“Cast Iron”, Stuck Up, the world’s longest past-up wall of poetry and art, organized by Nuart Aberdeen in Aberdeen Scotland, 2021. Poster design by Bea Dawkins.

“Keeping Tabs”, Poetry & Covid, a project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council, University of Plymouth, and Nottingham Trent University

“We Are Paint in Metal Cans”, published in the following:

  • Poetry & Covid, a project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council, University of Plymouth, and Nottingham Trent University

  • 3,651 YEARS LIVED: Global Poetry & Prose Reflecting the Pandemic, Edited by Dallas A. Graham // Order here

  • Poetry Across the Pond and Beyond, a publication of the underground group Lockdown Poets // Order here

“Metamorphosis”, Exponent II Magazine, Spring 2017 Issue, Vol. 36 No. 4

Recent Highlights

Billy Collins reads “The Legend of John Dory”, one of my poems

This is a video of Billy Collins reading my poem, “The Legend of John Dory”, on The Poetry Broadcast

Producing A Portable Paradise Prom(pt), chapbook

This chapbook is result of a workshop I organized for Swiss-based Pernessy Poets, whose founder is the delightful poet, Elizabeth Boquet.

I led workshop participants through this prom(pt). I challenge you to write your own Paradise poem!