Published Poems

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”Therefore Doves Are Holy” in The Kenyon Review

“Requiem for Used Ignition Cap” in Beloit Poetry Journal

“Usable Fields” in Southern Humanities Review

“Catfish Heads on a Clothesline” and “Peach Philosophy” in Narrative Magazine

“Eschaton” in Linebreak

“A Body Loves Dismantling” in Drunken Boat

“If the Soul Is Nothing” in Prelude

”Ritual” and “Oracle” in West Branch Wired

“Into the Valley Oak That Will Not Sing, That Will Not Even Talk” in The Adroit Journal

“The Herons & the Catfish Understand Better Than Me What I’m Saying to You” and “The Going Away” in Scalawag

“Pedestrian” in Vinyl Poetry

“Llano Villanelle” in Hayden’s Ferry Review

“On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County” in Muzzle Magazine  

”Hill Country Elegy” in Ninth Letter

“The Localist” in Fogged Clarity

“Pasture Fire” in The Winter Tangerine Review

“River Metaphysics” in Solstice Literary Magazine

“Ars Poetica with a Dead Dog in It” in [PANK]

“A Conflagration” and “Wendell Berry’s Angel” in The Boiler

“Letter to the Critic Who Questions, Among Other Things, My Poor Use of Grammar” in Devil’s Lake

“Backyard Reckoning” in Columbia: A of Literature and Art

“Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar” in Ghost Ocean

“Wildflower Choir” in DIALOGIST

“The Middle Distance” in BOXCAR Poetry Review

“Bluebonnet” in Town Creek Poetry

“Sighting Ourselves In at the City Dump Site” in Pacifica Literary Review

“Doe Rapture” in THRUSH

“After Six Months of Drought” in Red River Review

“The Addicts of Llano Speak Out,” “The Fire’s Aftermath,” and “Disappearing Town” in Birdfeast

“City Limits” in RATTLE

“County Lines” in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

IN PRINT


“Ghazal at the End of Hogpen Road” in Bodies Built for Game

“Aron Above the River” in Prairie Schooner

“Marjorie Perloff’s Arrival in Llano, Texas” in Chicago Quarterly Review

“Vision of Town with St. Paul and My Grief Appearing” in The Journal

“How Can I Say This More Plainly?” in Asheville Poetry Review


“Friday Night Metaphysics” in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

“Aron’s Notes After the Night Shift He Works Weekdays After School at Buttery’s,” “Blue-Collar Exile (II),” and “Blue-Collar Exile (III)” in Profane

“Podunk Pastoral,” “I Know a Place on Our Way Out of Town,” and “Aron Takes His Time Explaining What It Means to Be Rural in His Valediction” in The Swamp

“Barefoot Boots” in SLICE Magazine

 “Clinging Peach” and “’04 Playoffs” in San Pedro River Review

“Aron’s Transfiguration” in Southern Indiana Review

“Ascension” in Blue Lyra Review

“Pasture Ode” in Ruminate

“Against Allowing Too Much Distance in Place Poetry” in The Pinch

“Riverbank Elegy” in CONSEQUENCE

“Bull in the Ring” in Pieces of Cake

“Self-Portrait as Buck in The Pope and Young Club Record Book” in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

“Highway or Belief” in Ruminate

“Advice to Lassoed Self Attempting First Sonnets” and “Goliad Massacre” in REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters

“Hill Country Eulogy” in The Adroit Journal


“Indian Paintbrush” in Atwood

“English 301” in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts

“The Last Time I Saw Aron Anderson” in Five [Quarterly]

“Llano River, Sunrise” in The South Dakota Review

“Mockingbird” in The Monongahela Review

“Honeysuckle Ghost in the First Baptist Church Back Pew” in Nashville Review

“Philosophies of Borges” in Pebble Lake Review

“Llano River, Sunset” in Tar River Poetry

“Highway 71,” “Country Western Music at the Rose,” “Podunk Place” and “Cemetery Lights” in The Legendary

“Wine Cup” in Front Porch