Writing

For complete poems you can read now, visit My Poetry. Scroll below for links to work online.

New Books

Selected Poems in Print
• Alaska Quarterly Review
• Asheville Poetry Review
• Birmingham Poetry Review
• California Quarterly
• Denver Quarterly
• Dos Passos Review
• Epoch Review
• The Evansville Review
• Harvard Review
• The Hopkins Review
• Iron Horse Literary Review
• Louisville Review
• Mississippi Review    
• Nelle
• New South
• Ninth Letter
• North American Review
• Pleiades
• Poems and Plays
• Poetry
• Prairie Schooner
• Rattle
• Seattle Review
• Southern Review
• Tar River Poetry Review
• Tusculum Review

Anthologies
• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland
• Gracious: Contemporary Poems in the Twenty-First Century South
• The Southern Poetry Anthology: Appalachia, Vol. III
• The Southern Poetry Anthology: Tennessee, Vol. VI
• Squaw Valley Writers Anthology
• Low Explosions: Writings from the South
• A Tapestry of Voices: The Knoxville Writers’ Guild Anthology

Selected Poems Online
• Black Lawrence Press
• Chapter 16
• Connotation Press
• Diagram 11.4
• Diagram 19.2
• Guernica
• Kenyon Review Online
• The Offending Adam
• Panhandler Magazine
• Radar Poetry
• Swink
• The Slow Down

Interviews with Charlotte Online
• North American Review
• Salt Publishing
• Town Creek Poetry Review

Non-Fiction Online
• Consciousness
• Finding Our Way Again: An Essay on the Carters’ Memoir
• The Horse without a Rider
• How We Tried, and Failed, To Get Our Kids More Outside Time During the School Day
• Poetry as Resistance: Teaching Poetry to Justice-Involved Youth
• Tiny Love Stories in the NY Times
• Toward what? Away from What?
• What to Do When an Estranged Parent Dies: A Checklist

Interviews and Criticism About:
• In North American Review‘s blog: “Why Does Poetry Matter?”
• “Not I!: Strategies of a Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry” printed in Asheville Poetry Review.

Plus musings on the following writers:
• Beth Bachmann
• Richard Blanco
• Gaylord Brewer
• Anne Carson
• Kate Daniels
• Adam O. Davis
• Russell Edson
• Ben Folds and Nick Hornby
• Jack Gilbert
• Robert Hass
• Terrance Hayes
• Joseph Harrington
• Marilyn Kallet
• Antjie Krog
• Tim Lockridge
• Loretta Lynn
• Robert Morgan
• Laksmi Pamuntjak
• Marge Piercy
• Bobby C. Rogers
• Kay Ryan
• Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
• Don Share
• Frederick Seidel
• Arthur Smith
• Frank Stanford
• Randy Travis
• Natasha Trethewey
• C.D. Wright
• Robert Wrigley
• Wilco
• Kevin Young