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Books

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Edgemere (2021)
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Fellow Odd Fellow (2014)
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Postcard from P-town (2009)
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The Spirit Can Crest (2003)
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How to Dream (1992)

Poetry

  • Dishing
    Reprinted in MetroWeekly, vol. 60, issue 13 (August 3, 2023)
  • Last Day
    The Lowell Review, 2023
  • ; [i.e., Semi-colon]
    Tipton Poetry Journal, issue #56 (Spring 2023)
  • ​I Never Went Back to You; A Cage’s Lament; Today, Brother, You Would Have Turned 56
​           (Selected as a Runner-Up for the 2021 Saints & Sinners Poetry Contest)
           Saints & Sinners 2021 and 2022 New Poetry from the Festival  (United States: Rebel Satori Press, 2022)
  • Rosenthal China
    CCAR Journal, vol. 69, no. 2  (Spring 2022)
  • There Was a Crash
    The Summerset Review  (Winter 2022)
  • Abel Has Almost No Immune System, Lesson off St. Croix, After Judy Grahn
    Mollyhouse, issue 3  (July 17, 2021)
  • Destination
    Le Forum, vol. 43, no. 2  (Summer 2021)
  • Shoot to Kill, or, You’ll Be Glad You Used Glade
    Arlington Literary Journal, issue 149  (June 1, 2021)
  • I Never Went Back to You
    Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, special issue 25  (Spring 2021)
  • Rosemary Woodhouse
    Ethel, vol. 5  (February 2019)
  • Pigeon Alights
    Poetry Porch  (2019)
  • New School, In My Liddy Dole Sweater
    Lily Poetry Review, vol. 1, issue 2  (Summer 2019)
  • Ishmael’s Afterthoughts, My Perfect Confession, The Teacup I Desire, Fingernails, New School
    Stonewall’s Legacy: A Poetry Anthology  (Long Island, NY: Local Gems Poetry Press, 2019)
  • Incubation of a Star
    Ethel, vol. 2  (September 2018)
  • Spell’s Reversal
    Naugatuck River Review, issue 20  (Summer/Fall 2018)
  • Cowbird
    Tipton Poetry Journal, issue 32  (Winter 2017)
  • Deux Langues, Ophelia Approaches, Ishmael’s Afterthoughts
    International Poetry Review, vol. 42, nos. 1/2  (Spring/Fall 2016)
  • Sand Pile with Sissy, Earthly Father, The Ferry of Your Dementia
    Emerge: 2016 Lambda Fellows Anthology
  • Earthly Father
    RFD, no. 164 (Winter 2015/2016)
  • White Diamonds
    Rabbit Ears: TV Poems  (New York: NYQ Books, 2015)
  • What Remains
    HIV Here & Now Poem-a-Day Website  (July 6, 2015)
  • Treadmill, High Wire, Threshold; Risk Management
    Alexandria Quarterly, vol. 1  (Spring 2015)
  • Places We Have Never Been
    Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U  (Pittsburgh, PA: Black Lawrence Press, 2014)
  • Postcard from P-town; The Teacup I Desire; Crayola Cruella; Lena Horne; Cruising, Post-Modern Style; Walking behind Tennyson at Cauteretz; White Diamonds; Photograph of a Survivor
    Assaracus, issue 12  (2013)
  • Reading a Well-Known Poet, Chris Evert, A Time for Us
    OVS Magazine  (Winter 2013)
  • Chris Evert
    Divining Divas: 50 Gay Men on Their Muses  (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2012)
  • My Perfect Confession
    Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality  (Alexander, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011)
  • Hearth Hold
    International Poetry Review, v. 37, no. 1  (Spring 2011)
  • Backward Glance
    Poetry Porch  (2011)
  • For Patrick, My New Nurse; Fingernails; Eddies
    SNReview  (Winter/Spring 2011)
  • Phyllis Fromme
    Evening Street Review, no. 4  (Spring 2011)
  • Phyllis Fromme
    Knocking at the Door: Poems about Approaching the Other  (Long Beach, CA, Birch Bench Press, 2011)
  • Lost Soul, Hello Dolly, Weeds of Woe, All Set, Sighted During a Whale Watch, Robert Goulet Is Dead!
    Assaracus, issue 2  (2011)
  • Kitty Carlisle Is Dead!
    Poetry Porch  (2010)
  • Meditations on Yellow
    Le Forum, v. 34, no. 4  (Spring 2010)
  • Swimming the Contoocook
    Tygerburning Literary Journal, issue no. 1  (Spring 2010)
  • St. Francis in the Suburbs
    OVS Magazine, vol. 1  (2009)
  • Collision
    Naugatuck River Review, issue 2 (Summer 2009)
  • Running into Walta on the Red Line
    RFD, no. 137  (Spring 2009)
  • Stolen Touch
    RFD, no. 137  (Spring 2009)
  • With Nothing New
    Le Forum, vol. 34, no. 2  (Spring 2009)

Reviews & Other Writings

  • "If Only I Could Speak": Learning from Browning's Monologues
    The Boston Browning Society: [yearbook], 2021/2022
  • Review of The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin
    Lily Poetry Review, issue 8  (Summer 2022)
  • Review of Daddy by Michael Montlack
    RFD, no. 187  (Fall 2021)
  • Review of Little Which by Jeff Oaks
    RFD, no. 185  (Spring 2021)
  • Review: Walking into Lightning by Ellen LaFlèche
    Résonance, vol. 2  (2020)
  • Review of Two Books by Jacques J. Rancourt
    Résonance, vol. 1  (2019)
  • Review of Waving Back by Gail Thomas
    Poets’ Quarterly (Summer 2015)
  • Cherchez Joan of Arc
    Travelogue
    Moé pi Toé, vol. 4, no. 1  (Online, 2012)
  • The Poetry of Alfred Duhamel
    Introduced and Interviewed by Steven Riel
    RFD, v. 37, no. 1 (Fall 2010)
  • Cyndi Lauper: The Sadness in Her Rasp
    My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them  (Madison, Wis., Terrace Books, 2009)
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