Links to poems

"1981," Bindlestiff, Issue 1, 2016 


"Addendum to Wordsworth," Neologism Poetry Journal, Issue 23, April 2019

"After a Few Rounds," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 6

"Anecdotally," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 8

"Anywhere Like Home," Segue, 2.2

"Appalled & Aghast," The Courtship of Winds, Winter 2021

"Aspects of Dagwood," appeared in Poetry NOW, Vol. VI, No. 5; Barbaric Yawp, March 2000; others

"Aspects of Dagwood," New York Society Library (reading)

"Art for Mayakovsky," Tilted House Review

"Ars Poetica," DMQ Review, May 2005

"As Wordsworth Wandered," Blast Furnace, Vol. 3, Issue 4, December 31, 2013


"Beach Blanket Bananas (1966)," Loud Coffee Press, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Summer 2023. 

"Being & Being Dead," as appeared in 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Oct. 2002

"The Birth of Venus," Bindlestiff, Issue 1, 2016

"Black Windows," as appeared in Wind Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 56, 1986

"Blues for Breakfast," as appeared in Blue Collar Review, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Spring 2006

"Bob Hope & Anita Ekberg in a Blue Buick," as appeared in G.W. Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1982

"Bridge to Future Out," The Fear of Monkeys, Issue 32; earlier version appeared in Blue Collar Review

"Bunch of Junk About Chrome," Red Booth Review, Issue 3, 2002


"Caveat Emptor," Bond Street Review, Winter 2013, p. 18

"Chimera," as appeared in Hunger Mountain, Issue 8, Spring 2006

"Classic Theater," Helen: A Literary Magazine (video)

"Commercialism," The Fear of Monkeys, Issue 33

"Cypripedium," SPANK the CARP, 52, Aug. 2019


"Dailiness," Segue, 2.2

"Day of Reckoning," Rose Red Review,  No. 19, Winter 2016

"Degrees of Hell at Hattiesburg," as appeared in  The New York Quarterly, No. 64 

"The Devil's Playbook," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 4

"The Distant Sea," as appeared in Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2014 & Broke Journal 1.1

"Does the Light Stay On," K'in Literary Journal, Issue 7

"Doris in the Altogether by the Sea,"  as appeared in Interpoezia, Issue 4


"ENG 101,"Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 6

"Epilogue," Gyroscope Review, Issue 15-2, Summer 2015

"Epilogue IX," Where Is the River: A Poetry Experiment, 22

"Erato & Errata," as appeared in Interpoezia, Issue 4

"Everything Must Go," Red Booth Review, Vol. 10, Issue 1,  Feb. 2014

"Every Time You Lose," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019

"Excerpt from an Unknown Last Act," Unlikely Stories, Mark V


"Fistful of Nothing," Bond Street Review, Summer 2018, p. 18

"For Lillian, Whoever She Is," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019


"The Giraffe," Rose Red Review, No. 9, Summer 2014

"The Gray Hills Beyond," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 4


"Heatwave," Bond Street Review, Summer 2018, p. 17

"Here's How," Isacoustic, July 27, 2018 (as appeared in ABZ: A Poetry Magazine, No. 1, 2006)

"The Highfalutin Old Coot," as appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Issue 16

"History of Nothing," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019

"Hole," as first appeared in Hunger Mountain, Issue 8, Spring 2006; others

"Hole," as read on Books Unbound, "Not Somewhere Else But Here," WFHB radio, Bloomington, IN

"House of the Dearly Departed," Stickman Review, Vol. 2, No. 2

"Hume Goes for a Walk," The Camel Saloon


"Idle Days in the Lost City," Segue 4.1

"I'm Not Your Ordinary Fish," SPANK the CARP, 67, February 2022    

"In Love, in Theory," Rat's Ass Review, Love & Ensuing Madness Issue

"In Sanctuary," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 10

"In Steinbeck's Novels," Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 2

"An Intervention, 1989," Tilted House Review

"I, the Minotaur," The Blue Bear Review, 2.3


"The Jockeys," 8 Poems, July 2020


"Late for Work Again," The Fear of Monkeys, Issue 41

"Late for Work Again," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 7

"Leda & the Sun," as appeared in Great Midwestern Quarterly, No. 6, 1999

"Leaving Pascagoula," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 8

"Le Philatéliste," a revised version of "1981"

"License to Kill Hope," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019

"Life of God," Segue, Anniversary Issue, 5.1

"Life on Uranus," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 10

“Like Franҫois Villon,” Utter Magazine  

"Lines from Siddhartha," The Second Hump, Vol. V

"Loose Feathers," Stickman Review, Vol. 2, No. 2

"Lost Glove," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 9


"The Maharishi," Unlikely Stories, Episode IV

"Making Valentines," as appeared in Barbaric Yawp, April 2009, Vol. 13, No. 2

"Martini & Rossi," New Note Poetry, Summer 2022, p. 101

"Martini & Rossi," New Note Poetry, Live Stream Reading 2 (at 1:37:13)

"Meaning of Life," Marathon Literary Review, Issue 10

"Metaphysics of Baseball," as appeared in ABZ: A Poetry Magazine, No. 1, 2006

"Metrophobia," Segue, 2.2

"Moon," Blast Furnace, Vol. 3, Issue 4, December 31, 2013

"The Moon Is a Hole," Watershed Review, Spring 2017

"Mr. K," Segue, 4.1

"My Great Depression," Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 9

"My Lost Years," Whiskey Tit Review, Issue 4, March 2021


"Net Neutrality," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 9

"New Shoes," Unlikely Stories, Episode IV

"A New Translation,," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 7

"Night at the Improv, C. 1600," Segue, Fall 2006, p. 56-57

"Nobody You Know," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 10

"No Psychiatry," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019


"O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" Tilted House Review

"Off to 'Nam, That's Where," Marathon Literary Review, Issue 8

"OK But," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 10

"An Old Man in Gray," Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction & Poetry, Issue 54, Fall/Winter 2019

"On a Moving Train," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 6

"One Day at the Book Fair," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 8

"One Night," Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 3; also appeared in Orange Willow Review, Vol 2, 1999-2000

"On Looking Again at Boswell's Johnson," Unlikely Stories, Episode IV

"The Other Half," Unlikely Stories, Mark V

"Outside the Caption," Juked, September 2022


"Perseus," Bond Street Review, Summer 2018, p. 16

"Poem," Bond Street Review, Winter 2013, p. 16

"Political Discourse," The Courtship of Winds, Winter 2021

"Private Vertigo," Bond Street Review, Summer 2014,  p. 15

"Psychotherapy," Home Planet News: The Literary Review, Issue 8


"Road Service," as appeared in Runes: A Review of Poetry, Signals Issue, Winter 2005


"Serial Killer," Bond Street Review, Summer 2014, p. 20

"Shortly Thereafter," Where Is the River: A Poetry Experiment, 22

"A Small Red Spider Stops Dead," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 7

"So," Yes Poetry, January 27, 2021

"Songs for Aging Children," Segue, 4.1

"Spirit of the Dead Watching," as appeared in Free Lunch, Summer 2002, No. 28

"Spring Muzzle," Segue, Fall 2006, p. 58

"Standing in the Queue," Bond Street Review, Summer 2018, p. 15

"Still Life Without Grapes," Poetry South, Issue 10, 2018, p. 49

"Suicide Watch," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 6

"The Summer Before Last Summer," Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience

"Sunday Afternoon," Where Is the River: A Poetry Experiment, 22


"Terminal Hotel," Watershed Review, Spring 2017

"Then Your Pet Hamster," Unlikely Stories, Mark V

"Tintin's Further Adventures," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 9

"Tiny Airports," Isacoustic, July 27, 2018

"To Make a Poem Work," The Courtship of Winds, Winter 2024

"To F.W.," Helen: A Literary Magazine (video)

"To a Young Poet," Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 9


"Very Bad Flowers," After the Pause, pp. 40-41


"Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand," appeared in Georgetown Review, Spring 2011

"Washington Crossing the Delaware," Swink Magazine

"What Are Today's Poets Doing?" Lotuseater Magazine, Issue 8, pp. 44-45

"What Do Smart People Think About," Bond Street Review, Winter 2013, p. 17

"What's Profoundly Sad," as appeared in Main Street Rag, 10th Anniversary Special, Fall 2006

"Where Are You," Loud Coffee Press, Spring 2021, Vol. 2, Issue 2, p. 5

"White," Blast Furnace, Vol. 3, Issue 4, December 31, 2013

"Whitman Sampler," as appeared in The Cape Rock, Spring 2001

"Why Don't You Like Me?"Home Planet News Online: The Literary Review, Issue 7

"Wrong Side," Hinchas de Poesía, Issue 25, Summer 2020


"Your Eyes Are Diamonds," as appeared in Poetry Motel


Google Book previews:

Greatest Hits, Pudding House Publications, 2010

Here's How, Pudding House Publications, 2007



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