Poems
“1994”—the Atlantic: April 20, 2025
“Delivery”—the New York Review of Books: February 27, 2025
“Late Shift” (with audio)—the New Yorker: March 18, 2024
“Aubade Palinode” & “Tend”—Shenandoah: Spring 2022
“Wage” (with audio)—the New Yorker: January 3 & 10, 2022
“If By You You Mean We”—the Paris Review: Fall 2019
“Laura Palmer Graduates”—POETRY Magazine: September 2019
“Spoiler [Was born a shamble.]” (with audio)—the New Yorker: April 16, 2018
“We Do Not Have Any Openings At This Time”—Boston Review: September 2017; Runner-up, 2017 Boston Review Poetry Prize
“Mise En Place,” “What She Didn’t Leave,” and “Place Like Home”—Virginia Quarterly Review: Spring 2017
“Everyone Assumes the Animals All Know Each Other”—Colorado Review: Fall 2016
“Neck of the Woods” (with audio)—Guernica: December 2016
“What I Told the Cops” and “Reverse: A Fairy Tale”—Bennington Review: Issue Two, Fall/Winter 2016
“On the Most Terrifying Character in the Wizard of Oz” and “We Will Have Wanted To Have”—failbetter: May 2016
“Orpheus & EuroDisney”—storySouth: Spring 2016
“After the Girl”—Gulf Coast: Winter 2016; Verse Daily: February 2016
“Echolalia”—Tupelo Quarterly: Fall 2015
“The Girl Next Door To The Girl Next Door”—Indiana Review: Summer 2015; First Place, 2014 Half-K Prize
“How To Walk Backwards Into A Black & White House”—Ploughshares: Spring 2015
“A Place Where There Isn’t Any Trouble”—Court Green: Spring 2015; Best New Poets 2015, edited by Tracy K. Smith
“Spoiler [It ends with the house...]” “Gods Gone Wild” “Leading” “Ain’t No Party”—The Brooklyn Quarterly: Issue 4, November 2014
“In Ground We Trust”—Indiana Review: Summer 2014
“Things Go South” and “While Away” (with audio)—TriQuarterly: Winter/Spring 2014
“Straw Man”—The Journal: Winter 2014
“After the Witch”—the Massachusetts Review: Winter 2014
“The Blueprint”—Crazyhorse: Number 84, Fall 2013
“A Girl Gets Sick of a Rose”—Smartish Pace: Issue 19; Best New Poets 2013, edited by Brenda Shaughnessy
“An Engine That Won’t” and “Get Lost”—Virginia Quarterly Review: Spring 2013
“The Housewarming” and “The Petty Arsonists”—Puerto del Sol: Summer 2011; First Place & Second Place, respectively, 2011 Poetry Prize
“The Wallflower”—Fence: Fall/Winter 2000-2001
“Quicksilver” and “Salt Fork, Vermilion River”—Phoebe: Fall 1999
Nonfiction
“Tent Revival”—Virginia Quarterly Review: Fall 2016, 92/4; also excerpted in The Guardian, November 23, 2016, & winner of the 2016 Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction.
“No Country For Jailed Men”—Pacific Standard: June 30, 2015
“Youth In Crisis: Why Orange Is The New Black Needs To Add A Juvenile Inmate”—Slate: June 29, 2015
“Gwyneth Paltrow Is on Food Stamps This Week. Stop Making Fun of Her.”—Slate: April 14, 2015
“Bring It On Home”—The Rumpus: September 2014
“Compassionate Release: the Agony & the Empathy in ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK”—Indiewire: July 2014
“The Hungry, Healthy-Free Kids Act” (with Dahlia Lithwick)—Slate: May 22, 2014
“Days Like Lost Dogs: In Support of Loose Ends in Procedurals”—Indiewire: April 2014
Mentions
I joined Kevin Young on The New Yorker Poetry Podcast to discuss a poem of mine & a poem of Charles Wright’s, & you can listen here.
You can find my 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow statement here.
Win Bassett interviewed me for a project on writers working outside of publishing/academia: The Atlantic picked it up for their website. The full version of the interview appeared on Bull City Press.
A Q&A with the editors of failbetter, which accompanied a couple of my poems in their May 2016 issue.
The folks at Indiana Review interviewed me as the winner of their 2014 Half-K Prize.
Smartish Pace invited me to be a part of a reading in Baltimore in April 2013 to celebrate the release of an issue a poem of mine appeared in—you can find that here.