Poetry

“On Ethical Formation”, in The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry (Spring 2024) [PDF].

“Farmed Salmon”, in Stone Circle Review (March 3, 2024).

Two Poems: “On Watching the Birds for Evidence of Things Not Seen” and “Ghost Grape”, in Trampoline 21 (Feb. 2024).

“On Being Amazed that Deer Can Run Through the Forest”, in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (Feb. 12, 2024).

“On the Arrest of a Domestic Rock Dove”, in New Verse News (Feb. 5, 2024).

Two poems: “Glass” and “Closer”, in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal 07 (Jan. 2024).

“On Learning that Woodpeckers Don’t Have Shock-Absorbing Skulls”, in Rattle 82 (Winter 2023).

“You Can’t Know Unless You Murder Someone”, in Roi Fainéant 55 (Jan. 14, 2024).

“My Cat and I Have a Conversation About Talking with Whales”, in New Verse News (Dec. 26, 2023).

“Our Cat Wakes Up and Dreams of You”, in Orchards Poetry Journal (Winter 2023) [PDF].

“For Paul Celan’s 103rd Birthday”, in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily (Nov. 24, 2023).

“Dust and Ashes”, in Topical Poetry (Nov. 19, 2023).

Haiku, at Haikuniverse (Oct. 27, 2023).

“On a Fly Stuck By Its Wings to the Bathroom Window”, winner of the June 2023 Arc Award of Awesomeness.

Two poems: “Scars” and “Unaware”, in Shot Glass Journal 40 (June 2023).

“Whirl”, in FreeFall 33:1 (Spring 2023); a video of me reading “Whirl” is here.

“Advent”, in Plough Quarterly (May 30, 2023), runner-up for the 2023 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award; a video of the awards ceremony is here.

“Beacon”, in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal 05 (May 2023).

Five Poems: “Common Redpolls”, “Rabbit—Highway—Midnight”, “Survivors”, “On Letting Things Go”, and “What Loss”, in Resurrection Magazine (Apr. 3, 2023).

“Before Deer Season”, in Wine Cellar Press (Feb. 2023).

“Conversation on an Old Gas Station”, in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal 04 (Jan. 2023).

“Poetry is Dead”, in New Verse News (Jan. 3, 2023).

“Caterpillars”, in Great Lakes Review (Dec. 29, 2022).

“Jonah”, in Amethyst Review (Dec. 16, 2022).

“Irruption: on Incarnation”, in The Orchards Poetry Journal (Winter 2022) [PDF].

“On Saying Hello to Chickadees”, in Anti-Heroin Chic (Dec. 3, 2022).

“Twit Live-Tweets Twit’s Own Funeral”, in Topical Poetry (Nov. 20, 2022).

“Nostalgia”, in Snakeskin Poetry Webzine (Aug. 2022).

“Maple Keys and Ducklings”, “Laureates’ Choice” winner in the 2022 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest–all the winning sonnets are in a flip-book here; a video of readings of all the winning sonnets is here (my reading starts at 14:21).

“Sentient Poem”, in Topical Poetry (July 3, 2022).

Two Poems: “On Two Reflections of Narcissus as Vampire” and “On Cézanne’s Successive Versions of ‘The Card Players'”, in Shot Glass Journal 37 (May 2022).

“On the Ducks Who Are People and the Ducks Who Are Ducks”, in Rust and Moth (Spring 2022)—nominated for Best of the Net; included in Best Canadian Poetry 2024.

“Shevchenko, Shot in the Head”, Poets Respond, Rattle (Apr. 12, 2022).

“Sestina on a Winter Night”, in Anti-Heroin Chic (Apr. 4, 2022).

Three poems: “There Was No Light Left On Above the Door”, “Words Fail Me”, and “Desire Arrives to Rhyme with Fire”, in Grand Little Things (March 20, 2022).

“On Getting Your Ducks in a Row”, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge Editor’s Choice for October 2021.

“A Two-Faced Kitten, and Other Freaks of Nature”, winner of the 2020 FreeFall poetry contest, in FreeFall 31:2 (Fall 2021); hear it read in the issue launch video here.

“Silhouette”, “Taken”, and “Drawing Good”, in The Orchards Poetry Journal (Summer 2021) [PDF].

Two poems: “On the Time We Found a Three-Legged Blanding’s Turtle” and “A Certain Bird”, in Sparks of Calliope (June 7, 2021).

“The Snow Rose”, in 50 Haikus (May 2021).

“Not Another Poem About Herons!”, in The Daily Drunk (Apr. 22, 2021).

“But You Know That, Don’t You”, in Denmark: An Eyes Wide Shut Anthology, edited by Kristin Garth, hosted by The Daily Drunk (Apr. 2021).

Five poems: “Glacial Erratic”, “Spawned-Out Salmon”, “On Once Seeing Something Strange”, “Glint”, and “On the Emissaries from Queen’s University”, in Talking About Strawberries All of the Time (Apr. 6, 2021).

“On Plato’s Phaedrus 229″, in Cypress (Apr. 2, 2021) (also shortlisted for the 2020 Malahat Review Far Horizons contest), archived here.

“Villanelle for Lost Time”, in Anti-Heroin Chic (Jan. 31, 2021).

Three poems: “Winter Ducks”, “Carpenter Ants”, and “Surprise Flight”, in Jam & Sand (Dec. 31, 2020), archived here.

“A Group of Seven Norway Spruce”, in The Ekphrastic Review (Dec. 24, 2020).

“Award-Winning Poem”, in The Daily Drunk (Dec. 12, 2020).

“Eyewalls”, in Juniper: A Poetry Journal 4:2 (Fall 2020).

“A Little Rain” and “On Wanting to Write a Funny Poem About the Headline ‘What Happens if Trump Loses but Refuses to Concede?'”, in Rat’s Ass Review (Winter 2020).

“Yes, I Kicked a Groundhog in the Butt Once”, in The New Quarterly 156 (Fall 2020) (longlisted for the 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest; subject of this “Finding the Form” TNQ blog post).

“Epiphany”, in Umbrella (Winter 2019).