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Publications

Books

  

Union Square: A Novel. Baltimore: Apprentice House. October, 2018.


Three Days with the Long Moon: Poems. Baltimore: BrickHouse Books. January, 2017. 


Many Parishes: Poems. Baltimore: BrickHouse Books. New Poets Series. November, 2013.


Healing Mysteries. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2005. (nonfiction/spirituality)

Poems

  

“Natascha Kampush” in Prairie Schooner, Fall 2018


“Three Days with the Long Moon” in “American Life in Poetry,” The Poetry Society, September 24, 2018 


“Stricker Street Red,” “My Nicky,” and “On Those Shiny Hot Mornings, We” in Anti-Heroin Chic, Dec., 2016


“Three Days with the Long Moon,” “Against Recovery,” and “Near Pend D’Oreilles, Idaho,” in Pasque Petals (South Dakota Poetry Review), Spring 2015


“Ite, Missa Est,” in Blast Furnace, January, 2015


“Kick the Can,” in Berkeley Poetry Review, 44th anniversary issue, Fall, 2014


“A Modern Prophet Says a Prayer on the Day Shortened by 1.8 Millionths of a Second," in Festival Writer, December, 2014


“A Nun Takes a Lover,” in White Stag Journal, October 2014


“Our Goodness,” in Split Rock Review, September 2014


“Penitentiary” and “This Morning Making a Back Payment,” in The Inflectionist Review, winter 2014


“Before the Window,” “What the Rags Knew,” and “All This Liturgy,” in Grasslimb, August, 2013


“Sidewalk, Bakery,” in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, July 2013


“No Hope of Decline,” in Red River Review, May 2013


“Shatter Cane,” in Henniker Review, Spring, 2013


“A Nun Eats Out of Turn on a Fast Day” and “A Nun Takes Things Personally,” 

in The Gettysburg Review, Winter 2012 


“A Nun Wishes She Were Great at Her Job,” in Hotel Amerika, Summer, 2012 


“Always We Begin Again,” and “A Nun Thinks of Her Mother on Easter Day,” 

in Saranac Review, 2012 


“Knotting a Fringe,” in Fleda Brown’s newspaper column, “On Poetry,” 

Feb., 2012 


“Our Train Station,” “Reaching the Day,” and “Mindful,” in Scythe Literary Journal, 2012 


“As If” and “Kick the Can,” in International Poetry Review, 2012 


“Sparrow” and “This Sunday,” in Crab Creek Review, 2012 and forthcoming 


“Ars Poetica,” in Blastfurnace, 2011 


“Turtle” and “Nine Horses,” in A River and Sound Review, 2009 


“Like Lambs,” in Literary Mama, 2009 


“Desire,” in The Ghazal Page, 2009 


“The Dig,” in Shadows, 2002 


“Lines,” in Poetry Porch, 2001

Nonfiction

"Good Sleeping Weather," in Oakwood Magazine 2019 (p. 10)


“Just After the Riots,” in 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Summer, 2018


“Departed,” in Oakwood Magazine, April 2018


“Percolators, Bathtubs, and Creative Nonfiction” in 1966: A Journal of Creative 

Nonfiction, guest blog, Spring 2016


“It Couldn’t Hurt,” in 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2015


“Sometimes You Just Need to Roast a Chicken,” in under the gum tree, Winter 2014


“Number One,” in the anthology Becoming: What Makes a Woman. Lincoln, NE:  

University of Nebraska Gender Programs, 2012. 

Fiction

“The Skin of an Onion,” in Coffee Break Shorts, New Libri Press, 2012. 

Essays, Scholarly Publications, Reviews

A Review of Sydney Lea and Fleda Brown’s Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two

Lives, in Brevity Magazine Blog, September, 2018 https://brevity.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/growing-old-in-poetry/


Review: Bone Willows by James Engelhardt, Boreal Books, 2018, reviewed in Split Rock 

Review, March, 2018


“Because I Said So: Creating New Languages in Creative Nonfiction,” in Assay Journal,

Summer, 2015 


Review: The Sky is Shooting Blue Arrows by Glenna Luschei, University of New 

Mexico Press: reviewed for Prairie Schooner, 2014


“A Viewer’s Guide to Contemporary Passion Plays,” with Susan Paley (2003) https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/education/CreightonViewersGuide.pdf 

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