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Poems

POEMS (with a few TRANSLATIONS)

 
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“Starting Fires in the Midwest”

(poem, the Museum of Americana, December 3, 2024)

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“The Return of John R. Blackburn to Wabash College”

(poem, The Indianapolis Review, summer 2024)

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“To Assemble This Poem Properly”

(poem, Lords of Misrule: 20 Years of Saturnalia Books and Verse Daily, May 25, 2023)

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Three Poems

(Always Crashing, summer 2023)

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“Midnight Arrhythmia”

(long poem, Action, Spectacle, Winter 2022)

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“Hoosier Love Poems”

(poem, The Indianapolis Review, Fall 2022)

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“To the First Speaker”

(poem, Zócalo Public Square, December 2021)

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“THE WHITE WASH ON”

(erasure poem, Headline Poetry & Prose, July 2020)

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“A Poem for the Scoundrel Lucian Freud”

(long poem, At Length, July 2019)

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“We Live Our Lives through Other People’s Bodies”

(poem, Laurel Review and Verse Daily, November 12, 2018)

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“Heliotrope, Or Man’s Mind Angles Inevitably Toward God”

(poem, American Literary Review and Verse Daily, April 4, 2018)

"Marriage"

(poem, Postcard Poems & Prose, March 2018)

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Colloquy with St. Mary of Egypt"

(long poem, Blackbird 16.1 spring 2017)

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“The Journal of Glacial Archaeology”

 (poem, Booth: A Journal, 2017)

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"At the Johnsonville Bratwurst Eating Competition—Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2006"

(poem, Indiana Humanities Council, 2017)

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"Midnight at the School of Cosmetology" 

 (poem, American Literary, Review 2012 and Redux, 2015)

“Five Translations of Maxim Amelin”

(translations from the Russian, with Anne O. Fisher, Lunch Ticket, winter/spring 2015)

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“The Air”

(poem, The Missouri Review’s ”Poem of the Week,” January 12 – 18, 2015)

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“Speculation”

(poem, The Missouri Review 29.1, spring 2006 and VerseDaily, June 15, 2011)

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“A-Fib”

 (poem, Memorious 15, October 2010)

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“Blackout”

(poem, Court Green 4, winter 2007 and Verse Daily, March 13, 2007)