publications
First Forgetting, forthcoming in New Rotvrier Review
Troy in August, Arrhythmia, Young Fish Can Be Drawn to Degraded Coral Reefs By Playing the Sounds of Healthy Reefs, Our Glorious Present Tense and The World We Live In in BarBar June-July 2024.
How Mom Remembered Things in Main Street Rag, Winter 2024. Print only.
Excerpts from Star Catalogue: Amsterdam, Earth Unbound and The Amnesiac City in Lammergeier January 2024.
Guardian Angels Witness More Lives Than Yours in Plume, July 2024.
Fairy Tale Still Life, introduced by Suzanne Lummis in Plume, April 2024. With thanks to Suzanne and to Danny Lawless.
Five poems from the Star Catalogue project: The Sun That Fears Its Own Death, The Gibbous Sun, Pylons, I Just Want It to End, and Jubilee Year in Whimperbang, issue 27, 2024
Mythhistory and White Scar in Altadena Poetry Review 2024. Print only.
July Fourth Parade in Puerto del Sol, Winter 2023. Winner of the Puerto del Sol contest.
At Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations God Tops Off His Tank in Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Anthology 2023 (UK). Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Poetry Prize. Print only.
Lemon Tree Season in The Anacapa Review, 2023.
The Two Family Cars Speak in The Los Angeles Press, Autumn 2023. Print only.
Travel Advisory. Shortlisted by Louise Glück for the Moth Prize and published in The Irish Times, March 14, 2023 and in The Moth, Spring 2023.
Palomar Mountain in Breakwater, 2023.
Private Right of Action in Judy Branfman, “Where Has All The Affordable Housing Gone?” in The Venice Beachhead, April 7, 2023.
Chevron Supreme and On A Gravel Parking Lot in Altadena Poetry Review 2022.
Police Photograph of Robert Walser, Flounder, Climbing the Tree, The Elder Brother’s Question, Cain Remembers the Word, Santa Catalina Island Viewed From Venice Beach, Brenta Pl, Barnard Wy, Cities That Remain on Earth, Nuuk, and Dark Star, in The High Window Review (UK), June 6, 2022 for “The Featured American Poet: Tom Laichas”
At the Whole Foods Parking Lot Bullets Graze Her Leg in Blue Unicorn, Fall 2022. Print only.
Parrots in the Cathedral’s Mid-Day Cool in Salt Poetry Journal, 2023. Print only.
Junk Drawer, Dodge Dart, and Dorothy’s Twister Didn’t Stop in Munchkinland in Jabberwock Review, Summer/Fall 2022. Dorothy’s Twister awarded the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize. All but “Dorothy’s Twister” are in print only.
Rose Av in Oddville Press (UK), Fall 2020.
Electric Av in Words and Whispers, Issue 8, 2022.
Well John in the anthology Written Here + There. Community of Writers, 2022. Print only.
White Scar and American Grotto in the anthology A Metabolic Cure for Sadness. The Run My Mouth Collective, 2022. Print only.
The Stroke in Interpret Magazine (Scotland), January 2022. Print only.
Minnesota and Wyoming in Evening Street Review, Spring 2022. Print only.
Dell Av and Berkeley Dr in Altadena Poetry Review 2020. Print only
26th Pl and Quarterdeck St in Rupture, December 2021.
Animalia, Courtland St, Horizon Av and Union Jack St in Softblow (Singapore), 2022.
Flounder in Cleaver, Fall 2021.
Ozone Av, Ruth Av and Preston Wy in Monday Night, Spring 2021.
Marine Ct and Peacock in Aji, 2021
Venice Bl in La Piccioletta Barca (UK), July 2021.
The Dead, Flower Av and Frey Av in Moon and Sun, Autumn 2021 (print only)
Navarre Ct & Alhambra Ct and Santa Clara Av in Rappahannock Review, issue 7.2, 2020, with author interview.
Pacific Division in Spillway, 2020. Print only.
Strongs Dr and Venezia Av in Stand Magazine (UK), June-August 2021. Paywall.
Mono Lake and China Lake in Inlandia, Fall 2020.
Lucille Av and Mishkon & St. Marks in Lummox, 2020. Print only.
Gardenias in Slush Pile, 2020.
What Will You Do Without Us, Streets?, Venice Marine Biological Station, and Vernon Av in Koan Kinship, 2021. No longer available.
Park Row in Masque & Spectacle, March 2019.
Empty Lot in The Skinny Poetry Anthology, 2019. Print only.
The Wait Won’t Be Long in The Big Windows Review, Summer 2019
Another Neighborhood Meeting About Homelessness Ends in Acrimony in Prime Number Magazine. Winner of Summer 2019 Prime 53 Challenge.
The Hedge, Her Name, Hers & His, Home, Named and Nameless, Released, Seasons, The Murderer’s Sisters, One Day, and The World in Underfoot, 2018. No longer available.
Possession and The Human Ways in Blue Unicorn, Fall 2018. Print only.
Cordova Ct in Lummox, 2018. Print only.
The Garden in Courtship of the Winds, Winter 2019.
Ravenous in Panoply, 2018
First Dog and Left Hand in The Lotus-Eater (Italy), 2018
The Fruit in Convergence, Spring 2018.
Louver Av in Ambit (UK), October 2018. Print only.
B’reshith, Didn’t Ask For This, Climbing the Tree, The Elder Brother’s Questions and Name Them in The High Window (UK), summer 2018.
Possession and The Human Ways in Blue Unicorn. Fall 2018. Print only.
When the Garden Burns and Naming the Poisons in Eclectica, 2018
At the Edge of Air, Other Man and Renamed in Adelaide, September 2018.
When the Garden Burns and Naming the Poisons in Eclectica, January/February 2018.
New on the Market, Serene and Tranquil in Venice Beachhead, September 2015. Written under the pen name Talapeya.
In The Antipodes and Lumumba in Dark as Day, Spring 2008. Print only.
Bernstein in Berlin and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Love the People Month in Crossroads Review, Summer 1995. Print only.
The Perfumed Continent, The Angel and What the Mobs Will Demand in Crossroads Review, Spring 1993. Print only.
The Devil in Tsunami, Winter 1991. Print only.
Literary cheerleader and impresario Helen Friedland, was the first to publish my work: Basil The Bulgar Killer, As It Was, Lazarus, Light Show, Little One, Mama Wake, Night Shift, Primo Levi, The Spanish Fleet, The Toss, Two Bullets, The Walk and The World Which Shouts all appeared in the pages of Helen’s Poetry/LA between 1983 and 1991. Thank you, Helen.
