Books
Strange Land, Jacar Press, 2022.
Watermark, Madville Publishing, 2022.
A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being, Madville Publishing, 2019.
No Other Kind of World, Texas Review Press, X. J. Kennedy Prize winner, 2017.
Small Revolution, Aldrich Press, 2016.
Restoring the Narrative, West Chester Poetry Center, Donald Justice Poetry Prize winner, 2015.
Notes for a Praise Book, Jacar Press, 2013.
Fall Sanctuary, Story Line Press, Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner, 2005.
Chapbooks
Generosity for a Later Generation, Seven Kitchens Press, 2020.
Until That Yellow Bird Returns, Red Hydra Press, 2015.
The Slow Hill Out, Pudding House Publications (www.puddinghouse.com), 2003.
Deep in the Shallows, GreenTower Press, Northwest Missouri State University, 2002.
*Poems in anthologies
"The Mind and Soul Growing Wide Withal," The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, 2016.
"The Bounds of Belief," The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, 2016.
"On the Eve of a New Millennium," Hard Lines, University of South Carolina Press, 2016.
"How Many Lives Do You Have?” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“On the Eve of a New Millennium,” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“Immeasurable,” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“Always Upstream and Downstream,” Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
“My Father Cuts Wood in the Rain,” Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, the University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
“Pickwick Lake,” Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, the University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
“The Turning,” Southern Voices in Every Direction, Bell Buckle/Iris Press, 1996.
“Beginning of Summer,” Southern Voices in Every Direction, Bell Buckle/Iris Press, 1996.
*Poems in journals
"An Afterlife," Delta Poetry Review, forthcoming.
"Brought Low," Delta Poetry Review, forthcoming.
"Song of the Morning," Louisiana Literature.
"The Whole Keeps Changing," Louisiana Literature.
"Contemporary Poetry," Still: the Journal, #44, Summer 2024, forthcoming.
"Taking up the Cause of Endearment," The Potomac Review, Issue 74, Spring 2024.
"Tree," The Potomac Review, Issue 74, Spring 2024..
"A Balance," Ilanot Review, Parents Issue, 2024.
"Reverence," Ilanot Review, Parents Issue, 2024.
"What Happens Next," Setu Magazine.
"One Source of the Tensions That Plague Us," Setu Magazine.
"Everywhere Over the Earth," Setu Magazine.
"Gentleness," Setu Magazine.
"Into the Heart," Bennington Review, forthcoming.
"Citizen," Comstock Review, Volume 37:1, Spring/Summer 2023.
"A Poem is a Way of Practicing a Sermon," Poetry South, Issue 15, 2023.
"A Voice," ONE ART.
"Long Obedience in the Same Direction," Image, forthcoming.
"I Write to You As An Exile and a Confidant," 2River.
"Last Days," 2River.
"The Text We Read Is Just the Text We Hold," Solum Journal, Volume 3.
"In a Time of Difficulty," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"A Familiar Street," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"A Poem Worth Reading," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"Standing Firm," Symposeum Magazine, Issue 5, 2023.
"An Incarnation," Symposeum Magazine, Issue 5, 2023.
"Taking up the Cause of Gladness," Cumberland River Review, Issue 11:4, 2022.
"A Fostering," The Louisville Review, Issue 92, Fall/Winter 2022.
"Erasure," Southern Poetry Review, 2022.
"Concerning the Shape the Mind Takes," Zone 3, Volume 38, Issue 1.
"Concerning an Eternal Day," Red Branch Review, forthcoming.
"Church Door," Braided Way, 2022.
"Morning Light along Sage Grass," The Grindstone, 2022.
"At Least Something," Rattle, 2022.
"Wrong Son," BigCityLit, 2022.
"Sleepy Town," Literary Matters, Issue 14:2.
"In Search of a Chapel Built in Our Midst," Literary Matters, Issue 14:3.
"Concerning Explanations," Literary Matters, Issue 14:2.
"Partial View," Literary Matters, Issue 14:3.
"Altar," The Laurel Review, Issue 54:2, 2021.
"The Metaphor Keeps Adding to Itself," The Laurel Review, Issue 54:2, 2021.
"Without One Plea," Cutleaf Journal, Issue 2:11.
"Leaning toward Another," Cutleaf Journal, Issue 2:11.
"A Quiet Voice," Appalachian Review, Fall 2021, Volume 49, No. 4.
"How the Day Gets Away," As It Ought To Be Magazine, 2021.
"A Song of My People," Twelve Mile Review, Summer 2021.
""A Word That Means Being Baptized By a Thought," Twelve Mile Review, Summer 2022.
"A Poem Is a Way of Holding Still," Border Crossing, Fall 2021.
"A Poem Is a Way of Building a Kingdom," San Pedro River Review, Volume 13, No 1, Spring 2021.
"Dissipation of a Holy Hush," Black Moon Magazine.
"Wonderful World," Black Moon Magazine.
"Seldom Are the Meek Our Guides," Black Moon Magazine.
"They Pray As a Way to Say Prove Something Else," Rise Up Review, Fall 2020.
"At the End of Each Sentence," Los Angeles Review, October 2020.
"Mysteries We Only Wander the Edges Of," Braided Way, July 9, 2020.
"A Poem Is a Way of Giving up An Old Language," Hole in the Head Review, Issue 3, 8.01.2020.
"Wrens Hopping up the Dogwood Limbs," Sublunary Review, June 15, 2020.
"The Work of the Centuries," Sublunary Review, June 15, 2020.
"A Word That Means How We Wander Our Questions," The Inflectionist Review, Issue 10, June 2020.
"Reminders of a Passing Hour," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5. 2020.
"Many Places," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2020.
"Traveler," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2020.
"A Voice Imagined as My Own," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"Like Manna, Like Snow," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"A Day Not Far from This One," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"Reaching toward the Center," The Meadow, Summer 2020.
"Essential," Comstock Review.
"An Emerging Shape," Comstock Review.
"A Word That Means Standing between Each Moment," As It Ought to Be, March 13, 2020.
"A Namelessness of Starlings," As It Ought To Be, January 24, 2020.
"A World Not Gentle," Psaltery & Lyre, April 2020.
"Accountability," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"The Idea," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"Words without Effect," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"Taking up the Cause of Gentleness," Grist, Issue 13, 2020.
"Taking up the Cause of Faithfulness," Grist, Issue 13, 2020.
"Without Ceasing," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"A Shared Space," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"Just off the Road," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"Having Met Mostly Resistance," Blue Unicorn, Volume XLIII Number 1, Fall 2019.
"Source," Blue Unicorn, Volume XLIII Number 1, Fall 2019..
"Taking up the Cause of Patience," Lake Effect.
"A Poem Is a Way of Leaning Outside the Self," The Shore, Issue 3, Autumn 2019.
"A Different Tone," The Shore, Issue 3, Autumn 2019.
"An Enormity," North Dakota Quarterly.
"In All the Wide World," Louisiana Literature, Volume 36, Number 2, 2019.
"Among Stones," Panoply, Issue 12, Spring/Summer 2019.
"I Probably Shouldn't Even Mention Soul," South Florida Poetry Journal, Issue 13, 2019.
"An Assurance of Something Unforeseen," Postcard Poems & Prose Magazine, 2019.
"An Idea Making Its Way," Cumberland River Review, 2019.
"You," Poets Reading the News, January 26th, 2019.
"Last Summer," Valparaiso Poetry Review, Volume XX, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2019).
"Another Day," The Laurel Review, 2019.
"A Balance," Chiron Review, Issue 116, Summer 2019.
"A Continuing," Chiron Review, Issue 116, Summer 2019.
"The Battle Yet Begun," The Rise Up Review, Issue 15.
"Poor Listener," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2019.
"A Word That Means What Separates Us from Our Souls to Come," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2019.
"Awaiting Instruction," Ruminate, Issue 51, Summer 2019.
"The Line Forms Here," The Meadow, 2019.
"A Certain Slowness of Speech," Quiddity, Issue 11:2, 2018.
"A Word That Means the Joy of Being Wrong," Sugar House Review, #19, 10th Anniversary Issue, 2019.
"This Only Place," The Cape Rock, Issue 47, 2019.
"Another Voice," Southern Poetry Review.
"Out a Ways," Southern Poetry Review.
"Concerning Birds along a Powerline," The Cortland Review, Issue 79, 2018.
"Famous Ghazal," Connecticut River Review, 2018.
"Point of Origin," Connecticut River Review, 2018.
"What We Give Our Minds To," New Madrid, 2018.
"Generosity toward a Later Generation," New Madrid, 2018.
"Presuming to Keep an Inventory," National Poetry Review, 2018.
"Reaching in the Hive," Blueline, 2018.
"Responsible," Exit 7, 2018.
"Breathing This Way," Exit 7, 2018.
"Concerning How the Mind Desires a Shape," Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, 2018.
"Concerning Prayers as Intermingled," Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, 2018.
"A Few Words Left Behind," Bracken, Issue V, 2018.
"Chance," Louisiana Literature, 2018.
"Abundance," The Louisville Review.
"An Open Rebuke," The Louisville Review.
"Answer," The Louisville Review.
"Listening to Words," North American Review.
"Studying the Sages," Poetry Northwest.
"Taking up the Cause of Affection," Poetry Northwest.
"The Title Being an Aperture Then Vanishing," Zone 3, 32:2, Fall 2017.
"Being in Your Own Mind," Appalachian Heritage, 2018.
"The Wrecker Lot," Appalachian Heritage, 2018.
"Thin," The Hopkins Review, 2017.
"A Consolation," burntdistrict, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017.
"That Such an Idea Can Exist," burntdistrict, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017.
"We're People, Not Flowers," The Meadow, 2017.
"A Contentment," Still: the Journal, Summer 2017.
"My Life According to a Bowl of Rainier Cherries," Posit, 2017.
"Standing in a Center That Is Too Often Tuneless," Posit, 2017.
"Out by the Pond, Another Life Beginning," Posit, 2017.
"Redbuds," Big Muddy, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2017.
"Concerning the Shape of Time," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 2017.
"Reach," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2017.
"One Moment Touching All the Others," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2017.
"How It Was," New Madrid, Winter 2017.
"Gathering Near," New Madrid, Winter 2017.
"Richmond Side Porch in the Shade of Tennessee," Cumberland River Review, Issue 6-1, 2017.
"Concerning a Small Thing," The Hudson Review, Volume LXX, No. 1, Spring 2017.
"Sunlight Back Behind the Clouds," Peacock Journal, 2016
"Coming into an Inheritance," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"A Fire We Might Touch," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"Having Tired of Recent Stories," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"An Answer Full of Questions," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"Behind the Story Being Told," Nashville Review, 2016.
"Concerning How Edges Can Sometimes Overlap," The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2016.
"Here in the Valley," Poem, Issue 115, May 2016.
"Concerning What Balances the Rest of the World," Poem, Issue 115, May 2016.
"Appeal Offered Up in View of a Steeple and Ridge," New American Writing, No. 34, 2016.
"Expounding Past Anyone's Interest To Hear," New American Writing, No. 34, 2016.
"Toward a Place," Still: the Journal, #20, Winter, 2016.
"Only a Few Times Getting to See," Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 6.
"The Problematic Nature of Time," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Since Possibility Is Aesthetically Higher Than Reality," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Wondering Aloud," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"That Pitcher on Vermeer's Table," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Realms to Which to Ascend or Descend," Fire Tetrahedron, Issue 1, Spring 2016.
"Late September," IthacaLit. (((Listen)))
"A Sudden Rain," IthacaLit.
"A Short Distance from Mountains," Blue Lyra Review, Issue 4:3, Fall 2015. (((Listen)))
"A Few More Not Making It to the Coming Day," Pith.
"Postlapsarian," Stirring: A Literary Collection, Volume 17, Edition 8, August 2015.
"Before the Whole Display," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"Holding on Underneath This Shroud," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"No Other Kind of World," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"No Sorrow in Sight," Birmingham Poetry Review, Issue 43, 2016.
"Least That I Am," The Cape Rock, Volume 42, Number 1, Summer 2015. (((Listen)))
"Beautifully Made," New Madrid, Volume X, Number 2, Summer 2015.
"The Widening Rift," Crab Orchard Review, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2015.
"One or Another Fate Mostly Forgotten," New Madrid, Volume X, Number 2, Summer 2015.
"Who Even Knows What His Own Voice Is," The Laurel Review, Volume 48:2, 2015.
"A New Creation," The Laurel Review, Volume 48:2, 2015.
"Less," Bluestem, Volume XXV, Number 1, 2015.
"Anyone Interested in Mystery," Bluestem, Spring 2015.
"Concerning the Possibilities That Might Have Been," The Southern Review, Winter 2016. (((Listen)))
"Surrounded by Vast Silence and Time," Grist, Issue 8, 2015.
"A New Earth," The Hudson Review, Volume LXVIII, Number 1, Spring 2015.
"Having Weighed the Only Words I Hold," Tupelo Quarterly, 2014, Issue 4.
"Not Reaching To Hold Anything," Tupelo Quarterly, 2014, Issue 4.
"Henry Gower Road," Big Muddy, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2014.
"Rising and Falling," Big Muddy, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2014.
"Seed Time," 823 on High, Issue 1, 2015.
"Never," Southern Poetry Review, 2014.
"Meet the Author," The Meadow, 2014.
"What To Give," Qu, 2014.
"Attempts to Name a Focal Point," Hobart, February, 2014. (((Listen)))
"Here in a Postmodern World," Poems & Plays, Number 21, 2014. (((Listen)))
"A View That Wasn't There Before," Poems & Plays, Number 21, 2014. (((Listen)))
"In a Southeast Corner of the County," Still, #15, Summer 2014.
"Old Man with a Cane," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013. (((Listen)))
"As Much or As Little," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"To Begin," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"What the River Says," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"Maybe Evident All Along," Lake Effect, 2014.
"Blank Page," The Southern Review, Volume 50, Number 4, Autumn 2014.
"From There To Here," The Southern Review, Volume 50, Number 4, Autumn 2014.
"Naysayers," Poem, November 2013. (((Listen)))
"Based on a True Story," Poem, Issue 110, November 2013.
"After a Storm," Poem, Issue 110, November 2013. (((Listen)))
"My Life According To Little Proofs Assembled," Moon City Review, 2014. (((Listen)))
“A Lost Word,” Unsplendid, 5.1.
“Enthusiasm Gap,” Unsplendid, 5.1.
“Along a Hillside,” Gingko Tree Review, forthcoming.
“This Boy,” Gingko Tree Review, forthcoming.
“You’d Sit on a Porch Like I’ve Got,” drafthorse, Summer 2013.
“Down at the Feed Store,” drafthorse, Summer 2013.
"Work Still To Do," drafthorse, Summer 2013. (((Listen)))
“Rising Early,” drafthorse, Summer 2013. (((Listen)))
“To a Hymn Book,” Heron Tree.
“She Said,” Heron Tree. (((Listen)))
“Small Town Bliss,” The Meadow, 2013.
“To a Farmer Whose Fields Are Ruined,” The Meadow, 2013.
“Intervals at War with the Central Narrative,” The Laurel Review, Issue 46:2, 2012.
“Approaches Being Borne Back Toward Beginning,” The Laurel Review, Issue 46:2, 2012.
“Ontology,” Southern Poetry Review.
“Infinity Getting Fainter on All the Radar Screens,” The Missouri Review (online).
“Not That Clemency Is or Is Not on the Way,” New Orleans Review, Volume 38.1, 2012.
“Rifts Between Opposites Beginning to Heal,” Anti-,Feature #85, http://anti-poetry.com/anti/hardinje/.
“Furthermore and So On,” Anti-, Feature #85, http://anti-poetry.com/anti/hardinje/.
“Po-Biz Ghazal,” the Southern Review, Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2012.
“A Different Country,” the Southern Review, Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2012.
“Lightweights,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 49:2, reprint.
“A Rationale Indefensible But Offered Nonetheless,” Sugar House Review, Issue 7. (((Listen)))
“Another Turned Down Backroad,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“Rejoicing in the Early Hours,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“From an Ongoing Argument with the Times,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“That Which Nothing Greater Can Be Thought Of,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“A Thought Is Full of Drifting,” Birmingham Poetry Review, Number 40, Spring 2013.
“Waking in a Room of Books,” Artful Dodge, Number 50/51, 2012. (((Listen)))
“Along the Trail,” Artful Dodge, Number 50/51, 2012. (((Listen)))
“One More Prayer,” Measure, Volume VI, Number 1.
“Restoring the Narrative,” Measure, Volume VI, Number 1.
“With Eli, Age 7, Mt. Carmel Cemetery,” New Millennium Writings.
“Having Questioned the Difference Anything Makes,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXXII, 2012.
"Easily Convinced,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“I Once Was Lost,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“Harvest,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“A Day the Same as Any Other,” Waccamaw, Number 7, Spring 2011.
“A Secret to Swear Allegiance To,” Eclipse, Volume Twenty-Three, Fall 2012.
“Listening and Hearing,” Nimrod, Volume 55, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2011.
“Woodsmoke,” Cold Mountain Review, Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2011.
“A Few Thoughts Conducted,” North American Review, Volume 296, Number 3, Summer 2011.
“With Only a Vague Outline,” Poetry Northwest, Volume VI, Issue 2, Fall & Winter 2011-2012.
“Blues Man of Horse Creek,” Poem, Issue 105, 2011. (((Listen)))
“Spoken,” Poem, Issue 105, 2011. (((Listen)))
“When the Finches Start Up,” The Meadow, 2011.
“A Day of Slow Rain,” The Meadow, 2011.
“Find on This Page,” Sugar House Review, Volume 3: Spring/Summer 2011.
“Mind,” Sugar House Review, Volume 3: Spring/Summer 2011.
“Contemplatives,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 48:1.
“Due To the Short Lives We Live,” Blue Unicorn, Volume XXXIV, Number 2, 2011.
“Minnows above Bedrock,” South Dakota Review, Summer 2010, Volume 48:2.
“Compelled,” Gargoyle, Issue 57, 2011.
“He Wanted His Own Death To Be,” nibble, Issue 13.
“Dialogue Without a Season,”nibble, Issue 13.
“Speaking,” Cerise Press, Volume 2, Issue 6, Spring 2011.
“Presence,” Cerise Press, Volume 2, Issue 6, Spring 2011.
from “Short Dis-courses in Memory,” Hotel Amerika, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2011.
“In the Park,” Poet Lore, Fall 2010, Volume 105, Number 3/4.
“Psalm,” Crab Creek Review, 2010, Volume 2.
"The Visible and Aural So Seldom Intersect,” Lake Effect, Volume 15, Spring 2011.
“Hunched Over Shallows,” The Café Review, Spring 2010.
“Driveway,” Tar River Poetry, Volume 50, Number 1, Fall 2010.
“Consciousness,” Poetry Northwest, Spring/Summer 2010.
“Plenitude,” Southwest Review, Volume 95, Number 4, 2010.
“Immeasurable,” The Southern Review, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2010.
“As One Who’s Been Permitted,” The Southern Review, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2010.
“A Blue Bowl,” Muse & Stone, 2010.
“Dust on a Backroad,” Big Muddy, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2010.
“How It Is On Depot Street,” The Hudson Review, Volume LXII, Number 3, Autumn 2009.
“How Many Lives Do You Have,” The Hudson Review, Volume LXII, Number 3, Autumn 2009.
“Wake,” The Potomac Review, Issue 46, Fall 2009.
“Old Man Praying,” Tar River Poetry, Number 49:1, Fall 2009.
“Letting Out Line,” Tar River Poetry, Number 49:1, Fall 2009.
“Down the Third Base Line,” Measure, Volume IV, Issue 1.
“So Much,” Great River Review, Fall/Winter 2010, Issue 53.
“Lightweights,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 47, Issue 1. (reprinted on www.versedaily.com)
“Precisely,” Poem, Volume 100, November 2008. (((Listen)))
“To the Dead Who Wished Me Well,” Poem, Volume 100, November 2008.
“Provisional,” Meridian, Issue 22, 2009.
“County Home Road,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008.
“In Winter,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008. (((Listen)))
“Prayer,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008. (reprinted on Poetry Daily www.poems.com)
“A Short Short Life of Long Evenings,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2008.
“Ellipses for the Rain on Its Way,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2008. (((Listen)))
“A Summary of Your Life,” Sou’wester, Spring 2008, Volume 36, Number 2.
“Mountain View Couples Club,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2009.
“Practice,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2009. (((Listen)))
"Indiscriminate,” Measure, Volume III, Issue 1, 2008.
“About That Troubled Childhood We Survived,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008. (((Listen)))
“Palette,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“That Year in Oak Ridge,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“One Morning in Late May,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“Based on Something You Told Me,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008. (((Listen)))
“City Diner,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Summer 2008, Volume 5, Number 1.
“Rock Springs Road,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Summer 2008, Volume 5, Number 1.
“To Fellow Poets,” New Madrid, Summer 2007, Volume 2, Number 2. (((Listen)))
“A Study of Despair,” New Madrid, Summer 2007, Volume 2, Number 2. (((Listen)))
“A Word Come Down,” Southern Poetry Review, Issue 45:1.
“As the Rain Allows Us Time and Space,” Ascent, Volume 30, Number 2, Winter 2007. (((Listen)))
“So Many Words of Caution and Yield,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Fall 2007, Volume 9, No. 1.
“No Wonder the Robin Stands So Proud in the Grass,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Spring 2007, Volume 8, No. 2. (((Listen)))
“The Stillness of Trees,” Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2007, Volume 50, no. 2.
“Always Upstream or Downstream,” The Florida Review, Spring 2007, Volume 32:1. (((Listen)))
“A Search for Survivors,” The Florida Review, Spring 2007, Volume 32:1.
“Emissary,” Carquinez Poetry Review, Number 5, 2007.
“With Ever New and Increasing Admiration and Awe,” Carquinez Poetry Review, Number 5, 2007. (((Listen)))
“Slowly and with Deliberation,” Clare, forthcoming.
“On the Eve of a New Millennium,” Ploughshares, Volume 32, No. 4, Winter 2006-2007. (((Listen)))
“As the Day Before So the Day After,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006. (((Listen)))
“Creekside,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006. (((Listen)))
“These Trees and Nearby Hills,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006.
“June,” Main Street Rag, Fall 2007.
“Never a Sad Ending,” Zone 3, Volume XXI, Number 2, Fall 2006. (((Listen)))
“A Place for What Arrives,” Zone 3, Volume XXI, Number 2, Fall 2006. (((Listen)))
“Standing in a Doorway During a Rainstorm,” The Saint Ann’s Review, Summer/Fall 2006.
“At Horse Creek,” Poem, Issue 95, 2006. (((Listen)))
“Autobiographical Notes,” Poem, Issue 95, 2006.
“Quatrains,” Blueline, Volume XXVII, 2006.
“Your Basic Unrepentant Heart,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Volume 3, Number 1.
“Speaking of Theories,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Volume 3, Number 1.
“Near the Founder’s Statue,” The Café Review.
“from Speculations,” The Café Review.
“What I,” Matter, Issue 7, 2005.
“Nothing Much To Tell,” Puerto del Sol, forthcoming.
“Understory,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 43, Number 2, 2005.
“City Park Nocturne,” Smartish Pace, Issue 12, 2005.
“Target Practice,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Before His Final Day,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“An Etymology of Sorts,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Countenance,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXV, Number 1.
“Passover,” Ploughshares, Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 2004-2005.
“Clothesline,” Jabberwock Review, Volume 26.1, Winter 2005.
“The Miracle,” Freshwater, 2004.
“Remembrance and the Metaphysical Nature of All Things Near,” Ascent, Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2004.
“Remember the Little People,” Poems & Plays, Number #11, Spring/Summer 2004.
“Invocation,” in Poem, Issue 91, June 2004.
“Perennial,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Dissolution,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Primer,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Pasture,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Towns Like Ours,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“November Couplets,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Mnemonic Couplets,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Love Poem for Moonlit Backyard,” Sou’wester, Spring 2004.
“Saturday Night,” in Maize, Issue 3, March 2004.
“Library,” in Maize, Issue 3, March 2004.
“Elder Poet’s Final Tour,” in Iron Horse Literary Review, Fall 2003.
“Love Poem for My Being Here At All,” in New Orleans Review, Voume 29:2.
“Among the Giants of Each Main Pool Hall,” in West Branch, No. 53, Fall 2003. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Choir,” in The Formalist, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2003. Reprinted on www.versedaily.com
“A Return,” in Freshwater Magazine, 2003.
“Reply to the Shhh in the November Grass,” in Puerto del Sol, 2003. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Lady of Wealth, Circa 1963,” in Smartish Pace, Issue 8, 2003.
“Morning and Night,” in Rattapallax, Issue 8, 2002. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Sometimes Another World,” in The Distillery, Volume IX, Number 2, 2002.
“Thinking of Vanity, My Own,” Full Circle Journal, Issue 2, 2002.
“Ongoing,” Full Circle Journal, Issue 2, 2002.
“Genealogy,” The Bloomsbury Review.
“Visitation,” in Potomac Review, 2002.
“Another Routine,” Wisconsin Review, Volume 36, Number 3.
“The Babe,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXII, Number 202. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Moon Came,” The Laurel Review, Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2002.
“Feeding Stock,” The Laurel Review, Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2002.
“Late Nights,” Tar River Poetry, Volume 41, Number 1. Fall 2001.
“After So Long Taking the Same Road,” New Orleans Review, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2001. (Nominated
for Pushcart Prize)
“Enamored,” Nimrod, Volume 45, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001. (Special Mention in 2003 Pushcart Anthology)
“Recluse,” Nimrod, Volume 45, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001.
“After a Loss of Strength,” in Sou’wester, Fall/Winter, 2001.
“Summons,” The New Republic, Volume 225, Number 18. April 30, 2001. Reprinted on www.versedaily.com
(Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“To a Crawdad,” Ascent, Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2001. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Questions about Rain,” Poem, Number 86, November 2001.
“Early Morning,” Poem, Number 86, November 2001.
“Trying to Get Near One Another,” Crab Creek Review, Autumn/Winter 2001.
“Common Ground,” The Laurel Review, Volume 35, Number 2. Summer 2001
“Confession,” The Laurel Review, Volume 35, Number 2. Summer 2001.
“Coyotes,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Number 7, 2001.
“Fire Drill,” The Distillery, Volume VIII, Number 1, 2001.
“Old Quarrel Put to Rest,” New Millennium Writings, Winter 2000-01, Volume 5, Issue 2. (Nominated for Pushcart
Prize)
“Congregation,” New Millennium Writings, Winter 2000-01, Volume 5, Issue 2.
“A Descending,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 63, Spring 2000.
“The Fall That Will Not Fall,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Summer/Fall 2000.
“An Answer to Your Need to Move,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Summer/Fall 2000.
“Coming of Age,” Blueline, Volume XXI, 2000.
“Keep Off Bridge,” Blueline, Volume XXI, 2000.
“Living Near Hills,” Pleiades, 20:1, Spring 2000.
“Farm Presences,” Pleiades, 20:1, Spring 2000. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Flute,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Number 25, Fall/Winter 1999/2000. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Permanence,” Whirligig: A Journal of Language Arts, Spring 2000.
“Dirge Couplets,” Whirligig: A Journal of Language Arts, Spring 2000.
“Hours as These,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“Let Us,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“Distance,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“When Convincing Takes Less Effort,” Pleiades, 19:1, Winter 1999. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Measure for Jess Harper,” Blueline, Volume XX, 1999. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“The Deerhunter Waits in His Stand,” Amaranth, 1999.
“On the Levee During the Recent Flood,” The Distillery, Volume VI: 1. 1999.
“Seek & Find,” Crab Orchard Review, Volume 4: 1. Fall/Winter 1998. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Afterwards We Discover,” Calliope, Volume 21: 1. Fall/Winter 1997/1998.
“Chill,” Ascent, Volume 22: 2. Winter 1998.
“The Funeral Director,” Poet Lore, Volume 92: 4. Winter 1997. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Local Vase,” Amaranth, Number 4, Spring 1997.
“Steadying Sight,” Puerto del Sol, Volume 32: 2. Summer 1997. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Thunderstruck,” Ascent, Volume 20: 3. Spring 1996.
“The Barn in Phillips’ Field,” Ascent, Volume 20: 3. Spring 1996.
“Winter Death,” Birmingham Poetry Review, Number 14, Spring/Summer 1996.
“Obscure,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 19, Tenth Anniversary, Fall/Winter 1996.
“Afternoon Conclusion,” Flipside, 1996.
“Precision” The Distillery, Volume III: 1. Winter 1996.
“Overtaken,” Connecticut Poetry Review, Volume 14: 1. 1995.
“On the Day of Your Death,” Connecticut Poetry Review, Volume 14: No. 1. 1995.
“Dream Which Has Become a Psalm,” Elk River Review, 1995.
“Through a Field into Trees,” Poem, Number 73, May 1995.
“As a Man Must Do,” The Florida Review, Volume XX: No. 1. 1994.
“The Held Book,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 15, Fall/Winter 1994.
“An Uncertain Gesture,” Zone 3, Volume IX: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1994.
“Swan Dive,” The Devil’s Millhopper, 1994.
“Weekend Trip,” Poet & Critic, Volume 26: 1. Fall 1994.
“Those Running Toward the Heart,” Calliope, Volume 17: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1994.
“Wood, Hay and Stubble,” Anathema Review, Issue 4, November 1994.
“For the Asthmatic,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 12, Spring/Summer 1993.
“Camping in the Perry Hollow,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 1. Winter 1993.
“The Grass Cutter,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 2. Spring 1993.
“The Man Inside the House,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 1. Winter 1993.
“Barrel Walking,” The G.W. Review, Volume VIII: No. 2. Spring 1993.
“Fairgrounds,” Quarterly West, No. 37. Summer/Fall 1993.
“Blanket,” The Chariton Review, Volume 18: No. 1. Spring 1992.
“Foolishness,” Poet & Critic, 1992.
“Evening in a Field,” Zone 3, Volume VI: No. 1. Winter 1991.
“Neill’s Grocery, Burnt Church,” Plainsong, Volume VIII: No. 1. Summer 1991.
“A Lifetime,” Plainsong, Volume VIII: No. 1. Summer 1991.
“At the Redlight,” Calliope, Volume 15: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1991.
“Dashboards,” Appalachian Journal, Volume 19: No. 1. Fall 1991.
“The Slow Hill Out,” Calliope, 1991.
“A House Set Well Back from the Rad,” Calliope, 1991.
“Old Man Sitting in the City Park,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 23: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1991.
“Cherry’s Truck Stop, Savannah, Tn,” Creeping Bent, Number 11, Spring 1991.
“Names,” Poet & Critic, Volume 22: 2. Winter 1991.
“Passing Through,” Dickinson Review, 1991.
“Gravel Roads at Big Ivy,” Zone 3, Volume V: No. 1. Winter 1990.
“Brother,” Wind, 1990.
“Barbeque” Connecticut River Review, Volume 12: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1990.
“The Dead,” Zone 3, Volume V: No. 1. Winter 1990.
“Inventory,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 23: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1990.
“Staring out a Window,” West Branch, Number 27. 1990.
“Junior High Snow Storm,” Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18: No. 4. Fall 1990.
“To a Friend Hurting,” Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18: No. 4. Fall 1990.
“Driving Home,” Old Red Kimono, Volume XIX. Spring 1990.
“Bargaining with Snipe,” Genesis, Volume 1. 1990.
“Caravan,” Genesis, Volume 1. 1990.
“After Her Father’s Death,” Samisdat, Volume 56: No. 3. 1990.
“Spending the Night with Chad,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“Window Ledge Fable,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“Pure Gold,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“The Long Wait,” Calliope, Volume 13: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1989.
“One on One,” Number One, Volume XVII 1989.
“Good Boys,” Zone 3, Volume IV: No. 3. Fall 1989.
“Dreaming of Attic Sidewalks,” New CollAge, Volume 21: No. 1.
“The Seconds Before Clocking Out,” Old Hickory Review, Vol. 21: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1989.
“Evening,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 21: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1989.
“Tracing the Outline,” The Panhandler, Number 19, Fall 1988.
“Valedictorian Explaining the Failure of His Life,” The Cape Rock, Volume 23: No. 2. Fall 1988.
Strange Land, Jacar Press, 2022.
Watermark, Madville Publishing, 2022.
A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being, Madville Publishing, 2019.
No Other Kind of World, Texas Review Press, X. J. Kennedy Prize winner, 2017.
Small Revolution, Aldrich Press, 2016.
Restoring the Narrative, West Chester Poetry Center, Donald Justice Poetry Prize winner, 2015.
Notes for a Praise Book, Jacar Press, 2013.
Fall Sanctuary, Story Line Press, Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner, 2005.
Chapbooks
Generosity for a Later Generation, Seven Kitchens Press, 2020.
Until That Yellow Bird Returns, Red Hydra Press, 2015.
The Slow Hill Out, Pudding House Publications (www.puddinghouse.com), 2003.
Deep in the Shallows, GreenTower Press, Northwest Missouri State University, 2002.
*Poems in anthologies
"The Mind and Soul Growing Wide Withal," The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, 2016.
"The Bounds of Belief," The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, 2016.
"On the Eve of a New Millennium," Hard Lines, University of South Carolina Press, 2016.
"How Many Lives Do You Have?” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“On the Eve of a New Millennium,” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“Immeasurable,” The Southern Anthology: Tennessee, Texas Review Press, 2013.
“Always Upstream and Downstream,” Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
“My Father Cuts Wood in the Rain,” Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, the University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
“Pickwick Lake,” Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, the University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
“The Turning,” Southern Voices in Every Direction, Bell Buckle/Iris Press, 1996.
“Beginning of Summer,” Southern Voices in Every Direction, Bell Buckle/Iris Press, 1996.
*Poems in journals
"An Afterlife," Delta Poetry Review, forthcoming.
"Brought Low," Delta Poetry Review, forthcoming.
"Song of the Morning," Louisiana Literature.
"The Whole Keeps Changing," Louisiana Literature.
"Contemporary Poetry," Still: the Journal, #44, Summer 2024, forthcoming.
"Taking up the Cause of Endearment," The Potomac Review, Issue 74, Spring 2024.
"Tree," The Potomac Review, Issue 74, Spring 2024..
"A Balance," Ilanot Review, Parents Issue, 2024.
"Reverence," Ilanot Review, Parents Issue, 2024.
"What Happens Next," Setu Magazine.
"One Source of the Tensions That Plague Us," Setu Magazine.
"Everywhere Over the Earth," Setu Magazine.
"Gentleness," Setu Magazine.
"Into the Heart," Bennington Review, forthcoming.
"Citizen," Comstock Review, Volume 37:1, Spring/Summer 2023.
"A Poem is a Way of Practicing a Sermon," Poetry South, Issue 15, 2023.
"A Voice," ONE ART.
"Long Obedience in the Same Direction," Image, forthcoming.
"I Write to You As An Exile and a Confidant," 2River.
"Last Days," 2River.
"The Text We Read Is Just the Text We Hold," Solum Journal, Volume 3.
"In a Time of Difficulty," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"A Familiar Street," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"A Poem Worth Reading," Weekly Hubris, February 2023.
"Standing Firm," Symposeum Magazine, Issue 5, 2023.
"An Incarnation," Symposeum Magazine, Issue 5, 2023.
"Taking up the Cause of Gladness," Cumberland River Review, Issue 11:4, 2022.
"A Fostering," The Louisville Review, Issue 92, Fall/Winter 2022.
"Erasure," Southern Poetry Review, 2022.
"Concerning the Shape the Mind Takes," Zone 3, Volume 38, Issue 1.
"Concerning an Eternal Day," Red Branch Review, forthcoming.
"Church Door," Braided Way, 2022.
"Morning Light along Sage Grass," The Grindstone, 2022.
"At Least Something," Rattle, 2022.
"Wrong Son," BigCityLit, 2022.
"Sleepy Town," Literary Matters, Issue 14:2.
"In Search of a Chapel Built in Our Midst," Literary Matters, Issue 14:3.
"Concerning Explanations," Literary Matters, Issue 14:2.
"Partial View," Literary Matters, Issue 14:3.
"Altar," The Laurel Review, Issue 54:2, 2021.
"The Metaphor Keeps Adding to Itself," The Laurel Review, Issue 54:2, 2021.
"Without One Plea," Cutleaf Journal, Issue 2:11.
"Leaning toward Another," Cutleaf Journal, Issue 2:11.
"A Quiet Voice," Appalachian Review, Fall 2021, Volume 49, No. 4.
"How the Day Gets Away," As It Ought To Be Magazine, 2021.
"A Song of My People," Twelve Mile Review, Summer 2021.
""A Word That Means Being Baptized By a Thought," Twelve Mile Review, Summer 2022.
"A Poem Is a Way of Holding Still," Border Crossing, Fall 2021.
"A Poem Is a Way of Building a Kingdom," San Pedro River Review, Volume 13, No 1, Spring 2021.
"Dissipation of a Holy Hush," Black Moon Magazine.
"Wonderful World," Black Moon Magazine.
"Seldom Are the Meek Our Guides," Black Moon Magazine.
"They Pray As a Way to Say Prove Something Else," Rise Up Review, Fall 2020.
"At the End of Each Sentence," Los Angeles Review, October 2020.
"Mysteries We Only Wander the Edges Of," Braided Way, July 9, 2020.
"A Poem Is a Way of Giving up An Old Language," Hole in the Head Review, Issue 3, 8.01.2020.
"Wrens Hopping up the Dogwood Limbs," Sublunary Review, June 15, 2020.
"The Work of the Centuries," Sublunary Review, June 15, 2020.
"A Word That Means How We Wander Our Questions," The Inflectionist Review, Issue 10, June 2020.
"Reminders of a Passing Hour," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5. 2020.
"Many Places," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2020.
"Traveler," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2020.
"A Voice Imagined as My Own," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"Like Manna, Like Snow," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"A Day Not Far from This One," HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 9, 2020.
"Reaching toward the Center," The Meadow, Summer 2020.
"Essential," Comstock Review.
"An Emerging Shape," Comstock Review.
"A Word That Means Standing between Each Moment," As It Ought to Be, March 13, 2020.
"A Namelessness of Starlings," As It Ought To Be, January 24, 2020.
"A World Not Gentle," Psaltery & Lyre, April 2020.
"Accountability," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"The Idea," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"Words without Effect," Third Wednesday, Volume XIII, No. 1, Winter 2020.
"Taking up the Cause of Gentleness," Grist, Issue 13, 2020.
"Taking up the Cause of Faithfulness," Grist, Issue 13, 2020.
"Without Ceasing," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"A Shared Space," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"Just off the Road," Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2019.
"Having Met Mostly Resistance," Blue Unicorn, Volume XLIII Number 1, Fall 2019.
"Source," Blue Unicorn, Volume XLIII Number 1, Fall 2019..
"Taking up the Cause of Patience," Lake Effect.
"A Poem Is a Way of Leaning Outside the Self," The Shore, Issue 3, Autumn 2019.
"A Different Tone," The Shore, Issue 3, Autumn 2019.
"An Enormity," North Dakota Quarterly.
"In All the Wide World," Louisiana Literature, Volume 36, Number 2, 2019.
"Among Stones," Panoply, Issue 12, Spring/Summer 2019.
"I Probably Shouldn't Even Mention Soul," South Florida Poetry Journal, Issue 13, 2019.
"An Assurance of Something Unforeseen," Postcard Poems & Prose Magazine, 2019.
"An Idea Making Its Way," Cumberland River Review, 2019.
"You," Poets Reading the News, January 26th, 2019.
"Last Summer," Valparaiso Poetry Review, Volume XX, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2019).
"Another Day," The Laurel Review, 2019.
"A Balance," Chiron Review, Issue 116, Summer 2019.
"A Continuing," Chiron Review, Issue 116, Summer 2019.
"The Battle Yet Begun," The Rise Up Review, Issue 15.
"Poor Listener," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2019.
"A Word That Means What Separates Us from Our Souls to Come," Delta Poetry Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2019.
"Awaiting Instruction," Ruminate, Issue 51, Summer 2019.
"The Line Forms Here," The Meadow, 2019.
"A Certain Slowness of Speech," Quiddity, Issue 11:2, 2018.
"A Word That Means the Joy of Being Wrong," Sugar House Review, #19, 10th Anniversary Issue, 2019.
"This Only Place," The Cape Rock, Issue 47, 2019.
"Another Voice," Southern Poetry Review.
"Out a Ways," Southern Poetry Review.
"Concerning Birds along a Powerline," The Cortland Review, Issue 79, 2018.
"Famous Ghazal," Connecticut River Review, 2018.
"Point of Origin," Connecticut River Review, 2018.
"What We Give Our Minds To," New Madrid, 2018.
"Generosity toward a Later Generation," New Madrid, 2018.
"Presuming to Keep an Inventory," National Poetry Review, 2018.
"Reaching in the Hive," Blueline, 2018.
"Responsible," Exit 7, 2018.
"Breathing This Way," Exit 7, 2018.
"Concerning How the Mind Desires a Shape," Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, 2018.
"Concerning Prayers as Intermingled," Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, 2018.
"A Few Words Left Behind," Bracken, Issue V, 2018.
"Chance," Louisiana Literature, 2018.
"Abundance," The Louisville Review.
"An Open Rebuke," The Louisville Review.
"Answer," The Louisville Review.
"Listening to Words," North American Review.
"Studying the Sages," Poetry Northwest.
"Taking up the Cause of Affection," Poetry Northwest.
"The Title Being an Aperture Then Vanishing," Zone 3, 32:2, Fall 2017.
"Being in Your Own Mind," Appalachian Heritage, 2018.
"The Wrecker Lot," Appalachian Heritage, 2018.
"Thin," The Hopkins Review, 2017.
"A Consolation," burntdistrict, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017.
"That Such an Idea Can Exist," burntdistrict, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017.
"We're People, Not Flowers," The Meadow, 2017.
"A Contentment," Still: the Journal, Summer 2017.
"My Life According to a Bowl of Rainier Cherries," Posit, 2017.
"Standing in a Center That Is Too Often Tuneless," Posit, 2017.
"Out by the Pond, Another Life Beginning," Posit, 2017.
"Redbuds," Big Muddy, Volume 16, Issue 2, 2017.
"Concerning the Shape of Time," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 2017.
"Reach," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2017.
"One Moment Touching All the Others," Southern Review, Volume 53, Number 3, Summer 2017.
"How It Was," New Madrid, Winter 2017.
"Gathering Near," New Madrid, Winter 2017.
"Richmond Side Porch in the Shade of Tennessee," Cumberland River Review, Issue 6-1, 2017.
"Concerning a Small Thing," The Hudson Review, Volume LXX, No. 1, Spring 2017.
"Sunlight Back Behind the Clouds," Peacock Journal, 2016
"Coming into an Inheritance," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"A Fire We Might Touch," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"Having Tired of Recent Stories," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"An Answer Full of Questions," Peacock Journal, 2016.
"Behind the Story Being Told," Nashville Review, 2016.
"Concerning How Edges Can Sometimes Overlap," The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2016.
"Here in the Valley," Poem, Issue 115, May 2016.
"Concerning What Balances the Rest of the World," Poem, Issue 115, May 2016.
"Appeal Offered Up in View of a Steeple and Ridge," New American Writing, No. 34, 2016.
"Expounding Past Anyone's Interest To Hear," New American Writing, No. 34, 2016.
"Toward a Place," Still: the Journal, #20, Winter, 2016.
"Only a Few Times Getting to See," Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 6.
"The Problematic Nature of Time," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Since Possibility Is Aesthetically Higher Than Reality," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Wondering Aloud," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"That Pitcher on Vermeer's Table," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, January, 2016.
"Realms to Which to Ascend or Descend," Fire Tetrahedron, Issue 1, Spring 2016.
"Late September," IthacaLit. (((Listen)))
"A Sudden Rain," IthacaLit.
"A Short Distance from Mountains," Blue Lyra Review, Issue 4:3, Fall 2015. (((Listen)))
"A Few More Not Making It to the Coming Day," Pith.
"Postlapsarian," Stirring: A Literary Collection, Volume 17, Edition 8, August 2015.
"Before the Whole Display," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"Holding on Underneath This Shroud," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"No Other Kind of World," Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, September 2015.
"No Sorrow in Sight," Birmingham Poetry Review, Issue 43, 2016.
"Least That I Am," The Cape Rock, Volume 42, Number 1, Summer 2015. (((Listen)))
"Beautifully Made," New Madrid, Volume X, Number 2, Summer 2015.
"The Widening Rift," Crab Orchard Review, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2015.
"One or Another Fate Mostly Forgotten," New Madrid, Volume X, Number 2, Summer 2015.
"Who Even Knows What His Own Voice Is," The Laurel Review, Volume 48:2, 2015.
"A New Creation," The Laurel Review, Volume 48:2, 2015.
"Less," Bluestem, Volume XXV, Number 1, 2015.
"Anyone Interested in Mystery," Bluestem, Spring 2015.
"Concerning the Possibilities That Might Have Been," The Southern Review, Winter 2016. (((Listen)))
"Surrounded by Vast Silence and Time," Grist, Issue 8, 2015.
"A New Earth," The Hudson Review, Volume LXVIII, Number 1, Spring 2015.
"Having Weighed the Only Words I Hold," Tupelo Quarterly, 2014, Issue 4.
"Not Reaching To Hold Anything," Tupelo Quarterly, 2014, Issue 4.
"Henry Gower Road," Big Muddy, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2014.
"Rising and Falling," Big Muddy, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2014.
"Seed Time," 823 on High, Issue 1, 2015.
"Never," Southern Poetry Review, 2014.
"Meet the Author," The Meadow, 2014.
"What To Give," Qu, 2014.
"Attempts to Name a Focal Point," Hobart, February, 2014. (((Listen)))
"Here in a Postmodern World," Poems & Plays, Number 21, 2014. (((Listen)))
"A View That Wasn't There Before," Poems & Plays, Number 21, 2014. (((Listen)))
"In a Southeast Corner of the County," Still, #15, Summer 2014.
"Old Man with a Cane," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013. (((Listen)))
"As Much or As Little," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"To Begin," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"What the River Says," Potomac Review, Issue 54, Winter 2013.
"Maybe Evident All Along," Lake Effect, 2014.
"Blank Page," The Southern Review, Volume 50, Number 4, Autumn 2014.
"From There To Here," The Southern Review, Volume 50, Number 4, Autumn 2014.
"Naysayers," Poem, November 2013. (((Listen)))
"Based on a True Story," Poem, Issue 110, November 2013.
"After a Storm," Poem, Issue 110, November 2013. (((Listen)))
"My Life According To Little Proofs Assembled," Moon City Review, 2014. (((Listen)))
“A Lost Word,” Unsplendid, 5.1.
“Enthusiasm Gap,” Unsplendid, 5.1.
“Along a Hillside,” Gingko Tree Review, forthcoming.
“This Boy,” Gingko Tree Review, forthcoming.
“You’d Sit on a Porch Like I’ve Got,” drafthorse, Summer 2013.
“Down at the Feed Store,” drafthorse, Summer 2013.
"Work Still To Do," drafthorse, Summer 2013. (((Listen)))
“Rising Early,” drafthorse, Summer 2013. (((Listen)))
“To a Hymn Book,” Heron Tree.
“She Said,” Heron Tree. (((Listen)))
“Small Town Bliss,” The Meadow, 2013.
“To a Farmer Whose Fields Are Ruined,” The Meadow, 2013.
“Intervals at War with the Central Narrative,” The Laurel Review, Issue 46:2, 2012.
“Approaches Being Borne Back Toward Beginning,” The Laurel Review, Issue 46:2, 2012.
“Ontology,” Southern Poetry Review.
“Infinity Getting Fainter on All the Radar Screens,” The Missouri Review (online).
“Not That Clemency Is or Is Not on the Way,” New Orleans Review, Volume 38.1, 2012.
“Rifts Between Opposites Beginning to Heal,” Anti-,Feature #85, http://anti-poetry.com/anti/hardinje/.
“Furthermore and So On,” Anti-, Feature #85, http://anti-poetry.com/anti/hardinje/.
“Po-Biz Ghazal,” the Southern Review, Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2012.
“A Different Country,” the Southern Review, Volume 48, Number 3, Autumn 2012.
“Lightweights,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 49:2, reprint.
“A Rationale Indefensible But Offered Nonetheless,” Sugar House Review, Issue 7. (((Listen)))
“Another Turned Down Backroad,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“Rejoicing in the Early Hours,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“From an Ongoing Argument with the Times,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“That Which Nothing Greater Can Be Thought Of,” Still, Issue 8, Winter 2012.
“A Thought Is Full of Drifting,” Birmingham Poetry Review, Number 40, Spring 2013.
“Waking in a Room of Books,” Artful Dodge, Number 50/51, 2012. (((Listen)))
“Along the Trail,” Artful Dodge, Number 50/51, 2012. (((Listen)))
“One More Prayer,” Measure, Volume VI, Number 1.
“Restoring the Narrative,” Measure, Volume VI, Number 1.
“With Eli, Age 7, Mt. Carmel Cemetery,” New Millennium Writings.
“Having Questioned the Difference Anything Makes,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXXII, 2012.
"Easily Convinced,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“I Once Was Lost,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“Harvest,” The Louisville Review, Volume 70, Fall 2011.
“A Day the Same as Any Other,” Waccamaw, Number 7, Spring 2011.
“A Secret to Swear Allegiance To,” Eclipse, Volume Twenty-Three, Fall 2012.
“Listening and Hearing,” Nimrod, Volume 55, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2011.
“Woodsmoke,” Cold Mountain Review, Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2011.
“A Few Thoughts Conducted,” North American Review, Volume 296, Number 3, Summer 2011.
“With Only a Vague Outline,” Poetry Northwest, Volume VI, Issue 2, Fall & Winter 2011-2012.
“Blues Man of Horse Creek,” Poem, Issue 105, 2011. (((Listen)))
“Spoken,” Poem, Issue 105, 2011. (((Listen)))
“When the Finches Start Up,” The Meadow, 2011.
“A Day of Slow Rain,” The Meadow, 2011.
“Find on This Page,” Sugar House Review, Volume 3: Spring/Summer 2011.
“Mind,” Sugar House Review, Volume 3: Spring/Summer 2011.
“Contemplatives,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 48:1.
“Due To the Short Lives We Live,” Blue Unicorn, Volume XXXIV, Number 2, 2011.
“Minnows above Bedrock,” South Dakota Review, Summer 2010, Volume 48:2.
“Compelled,” Gargoyle, Issue 57, 2011.
“He Wanted His Own Death To Be,” nibble, Issue 13.
“Dialogue Without a Season,”nibble, Issue 13.
“Speaking,” Cerise Press, Volume 2, Issue 6, Spring 2011.
“Presence,” Cerise Press, Volume 2, Issue 6, Spring 2011.
from “Short Dis-courses in Memory,” Hotel Amerika, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2011.
“In the Park,” Poet Lore, Fall 2010, Volume 105, Number 3/4.
“Psalm,” Crab Creek Review, 2010, Volume 2.
"The Visible and Aural So Seldom Intersect,” Lake Effect, Volume 15, Spring 2011.
“Hunched Over Shallows,” The Café Review, Spring 2010.
“Driveway,” Tar River Poetry, Volume 50, Number 1, Fall 2010.
“Consciousness,” Poetry Northwest, Spring/Summer 2010.
“Plenitude,” Southwest Review, Volume 95, Number 4, 2010.
“Immeasurable,” The Southern Review, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2010.
“As One Who’s Been Permitted,” The Southern Review, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2010.
“A Blue Bowl,” Muse & Stone, 2010.
“Dust on a Backroad,” Big Muddy, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2010.
“How It Is On Depot Street,” The Hudson Review, Volume LXII, Number 3, Autumn 2009.
“How Many Lives Do You Have,” The Hudson Review, Volume LXII, Number 3, Autumn 2009.
“Wake,” The Potomac Review, Issue 46, Fall 2009.
“Old Man Praying,” Tar River Poetry, Number 49:1, Fall 2009.
“Letting Out Line,” Tar River Poetry, Number 49:1, Fall 2009.
“Down the Third Base Line,” Measure, Volume IV, Issue 1.
“So Much,” Great River Review, Fall/Winter 2010, Issue 53.
“Lightweights,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 47, Issue 1. (reprinted on www.versedaily.com)
“Precisely,” Poem, Volume 100, November 2008. (((Listen)))
“To the Dead Who Wished Me Well,” Poem, Volume 100, November 2008.
“Provisional,” Meridian, Issue 22, 2009.
“County Home Road,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008.
“In Winter,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008. (((Listen)))
“Prayer,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2008. (reprinted on Poetry Daily www.poems.com)
“A Short Short Life of Long Evenings,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2008.
“Ellipses for the Rain on Its Way,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2008. (((Listen)))
“A Summary of Your Life,” Sou’wester, Spring 2008, Volume 36, Number 2.
“Mountain View Couples Club,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2009.
“Practice,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2009. (((Listen)))
"Indiscriminate,” Measure, Volume III, Issue 1, 2008.
“About That Troubled Childhood We Survived,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008. (((Listen)))
“Palette,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“That Year in Oak Ridge,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“One Morning in Late May,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008.
“Based on Something You Told Me,” Grist, Issue 1, 2008. (((Listen)))
“City Diner,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Summer 2008, Volume 5, Number 1.
“Rock Springs Road,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Summer 2008, Volume 5, Number 1.
“To Fellow Poets,” New Madrid, Summer 2007, Volume 2, Number 2. (((Listen)))
“A Study of Despair,” New Madrid, Summer 2007, Volume 2, Number 2. (((Listen)))
“A Word Come Down,” Southern Poetry Review, Issue 45:1.
“As the Rain Allows Us Time and Space,” Ascent, Volume 30, Number 2, Winter 2007. (((Listen)))
“So Many Words of Caution and Yield,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Fall 2007, Volume 9, No. 1.
“No Wonder the Robin Stands So Proud in the Grass,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Spring 2007, Volume 8, No. 2. (((Listen)))
“The Stillness of Trees,” Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2007, Volume 50, no. 2.
“Always Upstream or Downstream,” The Florida Review, Spring 2007, Volume 32:1. (((Listen)))
“A Search for Survivors,” The Florida Review, Spring 2007, Volume 32:1.
“Emissary,” Carquinez Poetry Review, Number 5, 2007.
“With Ever New and Increasing Admiration and Awe,” Carquinez Poetry Review, Number 5, 2007. (((Listen)))
“Slowly and with Deliberation,” Clare, forthcoming.
“On the Eve of a New Millennium,” Ploughshares, Volume 32, No. 4, Winter 2006-2007. (((Listen)))
“As the Day Before So the Day After,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006. (((Listen)))
“Creekside,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006. (((Listen)))
“These Trees and Nearby Hills,” Potomac Review, Issue 41, 2006.
“June,” Main Street Rag, Fall 2007.
“Never a Sad Ending,” Zone 3, Volume XXI, Number 2, Fall 2006. (((Listen)))
“A Place for What Arrives,” Zone 3, Volume XXI, Number 2, Fall 2006. (((Listen)))
“Standing in a Doorway During a Rainstorm,” The Saint Ann’s Review, Summer/Fall 2006.
“At Horse Creek,” Poem, Issue 95, 2006. (((Listen)))
“Autobiographical Notes,” Poem, Issue 95, 2006.
“Quatrains,” Blueline, Volume XXVII, 2006.
“Your Basic Unrepentant Heart,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Volume 3, Number 1.
“Speaking of Theories,” Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, Volume 3, Number 1.
“Near the Founder’s Statue,” The Café Review.
“from Speculations,” The Café Review.
“What I,” Matter, Issue 7, 2005.
“Nothing Much To Tell,” Puerto del Sol, forthcoming.
“Understory,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 43, Number 2, 2005.
“City Park Nocturne,” Smartish Pace, Issue 12, 2005.
“Target Practice,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Before His Final Day,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“An Etymology of Sorts,” in North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2005.
“Countenance,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXV, Number 1.
“Passover,” Ploughshares, Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 2004-2005.
“Clothesline,” Jabberwock Review, Volume 26.1, Winter 2005.
“The Miracle,” Freshwater, 2004.
“Remembrance and the Metaphysical Nature of All Things Near,” Ascent, Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2004.
“Remember the Little People,” Poems & Plays, Number #11, Spring/Summer 2004.
“Invocation,” in Poem, Issue 91, June 2004.
“Perennial,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Dissolution,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Primer,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2004.
“Pasture,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Towns Like Ours,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“November Couplets,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Mnemonic Couplets,” in Zone 3, Spring/Fall 2003.
“Love Poem for Moonlit Backyard,” Sou’wester, Spring 2004.
“Saturday Night,” in Maize, Issue 3, March 2004.
“Library,” in Maize, Issue 3, March 2004.
“Elder Poet’s Final Tour,” in Iron Horse Literary Review, Fall 2003.
“Love Poem for My Being Here At All,” in New Orleans Review, Voume 29:2.
“Among the Giants of Each Main Pool Hall,” in West Branch, No. 53, Fall 2003. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Choir,” in The Formalist, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2003. Reprinted on www.versedaily.com
“A Return,” in Freshwater Magazine, 2003.
“Reply to the Shhh in the November Grass,” in Puerto del Sol, 2003. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Lady of Wealth, Circa 1963,” in Smartish Pace, Issue 8, 2003.
“Morning and Night,” in Rattapallax, Issue 8, 2002. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Sometimes Another World,” in The Distillery, Volume IX, Number 2, 2002.
“Thinking of Vanity, My Own,” Full Circle Journal, Issue 2, 2002.
“Ongoing,” Full Circle Journal, Issue 2, 2002.
“Genealogy,” The Bloomsbury Review.
“Visitation,” in Potomac Review, 2002.
“Another Routine,” Wisconsin Review, Volume 36, Number 3.
“The Babe,” Mid-American Review, Volume XXII, Number 202. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Moon Came,” The Laurel Review, Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2002.
“Feeding Stock,” The Laurel Review, Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2002.
“Late Nights,” Tar River Poetry, Volume 41, Number 1. Fall 2001.
“After So Long Taking the Same Road,” New Orleans Review, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2001. (Nominated
for Pushcart Prize)
“Enamored,” Nimrod, Volume 45, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001. (Special Mention in 2003 Pushcart Anthology)
“Recluse,” Nimrod, Volume 45, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2001.
“After a Loss of Strength,” in Sou’wester, Fall/Winter, 2001.
“Summons,” The New Republic, Volume 225, Number 18. April 30, 2001. Reprinted on www.versedaily.com
(Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“To a Crawdad,” Ascent, Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2001. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Questions about Rain,” Poem, Number 86, November 2001.
“Early Morning,” Poem, Number 86, November 2001.
“Trying to Get Near One Another,” Crab Creek Review, Autumn/Winter 2001.
“Common Ground,” The Laurel Review, Volume 35, Number 2. Summer 2001
“Confession,” The Laurel Review, Volume 35, Number 2. Summer 2001.
“Coyotes,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Number 7, 2001.
“Fire Drill,” The Distillery, Volume VIII, Number 1, 2001.
“Old Quarrel Put to Rest,” New Millennium Writings, Winter 2000-01, Volume 5, Issue 2. (Nominated for Pushcart
Prize)
“Congregation,” New Millennium Writings, Winter 2000-01, Volume 5, Issue 2.
“A Descending,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 63, Spring 2000.
“The Fall That Will Not Fall,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Summer/Fall 2000.
“An Answer to Your Need to Move,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Summer/Fall 2000.
“Coming of Age,” Blueline, Volume XXI, 2000.
“Keep Off Bridge,” Blueline, Volume XXI, 2000.
“Living Near Hills,” Pleiades, 20:1, Spring 2000.
“Farm Presences,” Pleiades, 20:1, Spring 2000. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Flute,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Number 25, Fall/Winter 1999/2000. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Permanence,” Whirligig: A Journal of Language Arts, Spring 2000.
“Dirge Couplets,” Whirligig: A Journal of Language Arts, Spring 2000.
“Hours as These,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“Let Us,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“Distance,” Poem, Number 82, November, 1999.
“When Convincing Takes Less Effort,” Pleiades, 19:1, Winter 1999. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Measure for Jess Harper,” Blueline, Volume XX, 1999. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“The Deerhunter Waits in His Stand,” Amaranth, 1999.
“On the Levee During the Recent Flood,” The Distillery, Volume VI: 1. 1999.
“Seek & Find,” Crab Orchard Review, Volume 4: 1. Fall/Winter 1998. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Afterwards We Discover,” Calliope, Volume 21: 1. Fall/Winter 1997/1998.
“Chill,” Ascent, Volume 22: 2. Winter 1998.
“The Funeral Director,” Poet Lore, Volume 92: 4. Winter 1997. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Local Vase,” Amaranth, Number 4, Spring 1997.
“Steadying Sight,” Puerto del Sol, Volume 32: 2. Summer 1997. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Thunderstruck,” Ascent, Volume 20: 3. Spring 1996.
“The Barn in Phillips’ Field,” Ascent, Volume 20: 3. Spring 1996.
“Winter Death,” Birmingham Poetry Review, Number 14, Spring/Summer 1996.
“Obscure,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 19, Tenth Anniversary, Fall/Winter 1996.
“Afternoon Conclusion,” Flipside, 1996.
“Precision” The Distillery, Volume III: 1. Winter 1996.
“Overtaken,” Connecticut Poetry Review, Volume 14: 1. 1995.
“On the Day of Your Death,” Connecticut Poetry Review, Volume 14: No. 1. 1995.
“Dream Which Has Become a Psalm,” Elk River Review, 1995.
“Through a Field into Trees,” Poem, Number 73, May 1995.
“As a Man Must Do,” The Florida Review, Volume XX: No. 1. 1994.
“The Held Book,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 15, Fall/Winter 1994.
“An Uncertain Gesture,” Zone 3, Volume IX: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1994.
“Swan Dive,” The Devil’s Millhopper, 1994.
“Weekend Trip,” Poet & Critic, Volume 26: 1. Fall 1994.
“Those Running Toward the Heart,” Calliope, Volume 17: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1994.
“Wood, Hay and Stubble,” Anathema Review, Issue 4, November 1994.
“For the Asthmatic,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 12, Spring/Summer 1993.
“Camping in the Perry Hollow,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 1. Winter 1993.
“The Grass Cutter,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 2. Spring 1993.
“The Man Inside the House,” Zone 3, Volume VIII: No. 1. Winter 1993.
“Barrel Walking,” The G.W. Review, Volume VIII: No. 2. Spring 1993.
“Fairgrounds,” Quarterly West, No. 37. Summer/Fall 1993.
“Blanket,” The Chariton Review, Volume 18: No. 1. Spring 1992.
“Foolishness,” Poet & Critic, 1992.
“Evening in a Field,” Zone 3, Volume VI: No. 1. Winter 1991.
“Neill’s Grocery, Burnt Church,” Plainsong, Volume VIII: No. 1. Summer 1991.
“A Lifetime,” Plainsong, Volume VIII: No. 1. Summer 1991.
“At the Redlight,” Calliope, Volume 15: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1991.
“Dashboards,” Appalachian Journal, Volume 19: No. 1. Fall 1991.
“The Slow Hill Out,” Calliope, 1991.
“A House Set Well Back from the Rad,” Calliope, 1991.
“Old Man Sitting in the City Park,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 23: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1991.
“Cherry’s Truck Stop, Savannah, Tn,” Creeping Bent, Number 11, Spring 1991.
“Names,” Poet & Critic, Volume 22: 2. Winter 1991.
“Passing Through,” Dickinson Review, 1991.
“Gravel Roads at Big Ivy,” Zone 3, Volume V: No. 1. Winter 1990.
“Brother,” Wind, 1990.
“Barbeque” Connecticut River Review, Volume 12: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1990.
“The Dead,” Zone 3, Volume V: No. 1. Winter 1990.
“Inventory,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 23: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1990.
“Staring out a Window,” West Branch, Number 27. 1990.
“Junior High Snow Storm,” Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18: No. 4. Fall 1990.
“To a Friend Hurting,” Appalachian Heritage, Volume 18: No. 4. Fall 1990.
“Driving Home,” Old Red Kimono, Volume XIX. Spring 1990.
“Bargaining with Snipe,” Genesis, Volume 1. 1990.
“Caravan,” Genesis, Volume 1. 1990.
“After Her Father’s Death,” Samisdat, Volume 56: No. 3. 1990.
“Spending the Night with Chad,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“Window Ledge Fable,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“Pure Gold,” Rhododendron, Spring 1990.
“The Long Wait,” Calliope, Volume 13: No. 1. Fall/Winter 1989.
“One on One,” Number One, Volume XVII 1989.
“Good Boys,” Zone 3, Volume IV: No. 3. Fall 1989.
“Dreaming of Attic Sidewalks,” New CollAge, Volume 21: No. 1.
“The Seconds Before Clocking Out,” Old Hickory Review, Vol. 21: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1989.
“Evening,” Old Hickory Review, Volume 21: No. 2. Spring/Summer 1989.
“Tracing the Outline,” The Panhandler, Number 19, Fall 1988.
“Valedictorian Explaining the Failure of His Life,” The Cape Rock, Volume 23: No. 2. Fall 1988.