Poetry


Elizabeth Packard’s Petition to the Trustees of Illinois Insane Asylum, September 1861; Dorothea Dix Speaks to the Massachusetts Legislature About Reforming Mental Health Treatment, 1843; Advice from the Little Mother’s League and the New England Medical Society, 1908; Cutleaf, 2025

Girls Wanted, Hunger Mountain, Summer 2022

Before the Man Walks Into Your House, The Logic of Natural Wonders, Red Horse, South Florida Poetry Review, November, 2021

From the Heart of George W. Barker, aka The Poet, Indianapolis Review, Fall 2021

Elizabeth Packard Coaxes the Matron to Allow Her to Shampoo Her Fellow Asylum Patients’ Hair and Teresa Sickles Confesses to Her Husband, Congressman Dan Sickles, Western Humanities Review, Volume 75.3, Fall 2021

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter, Rose, Prays the Mysteries of the Rosary Psaltery and Lyre, March 23, 2020

Blessing for Cows, Psaltery and Lyre, September 16, 2019

At 4:00 am, Ruminate, Fall 2019

My Breasts Invade the Photo, Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 37

Searching and On Algebra Clouds of Unknown Values, Poetry Flash, July 2018

Sestina For Spider Lady and Animal Night, Mezzo Camin, 2017

Stuff, New Ohio Review, Spring 2017

Cloud, Burr, Ponderosa,The Zion Narrows, Canary, Summer 2016

The Now, The Cincinnati Review, Winter 2015

Gather the Clouds, America, Sept. 15, 2014

My Husband’s Last Garden, Nimrod International Journal, Spring/Summer 2013

Carving, Aspen, 1898, Califlora: A Literary Field Guide, Ed. Terry Beers, 2012