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RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
fourteen poems | December 2025
The Birthday Cannoli
Note: Available in print only, here
Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | June 2025
Blood Orange [An Offering]
Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | June 2025
Two Boys | Sleeping
The Strong Stuff: The Best of Fictional Café 2018-2020 | May 2024
The Back of Trudy’s Head
Bridgette | Since the Accident
Creating Shondra
Lucy | Not Lucy
Prairie Fire | Winter 2023-24
Bluegill
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose | July 2023
Oh God, I’m Coming
Two Boys | Sleeping
Impossible Archetype | March 2023
I Can’t Yet Say He Failed [But I Have]
Note: Opens in PDF, page 22
Bulb Culture Collective |March 2023
Inkling
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CHAPBOOKS
Ghost City Press | July 2022
the no-man [a micro-chapbook]
Note: Available as a free or “by donation” downloadable PDF
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SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS
The American Journal of Poetry | July 2019
Aaron | Not Aaron
Daniel | Sleeping In
Ellsworth
Warren
Cypress Press | August 2021
The Seat of All Thoughts
The Dillydoun Review | March 2022
Imperfect Birds
FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art | April 2021
Breakers
Note: Also available in print, here
Ghost City Review | April 2020
Ascension
Hole In The Head Review | November 2020
lovesick | a manifesto i scratched onto the headboard
the light | as if it knew us, as if we knew each other
Impossible Archetype | August 2017
Faux
Note: 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination
Note: Nominated for inclusion in Bettering American Poetry
The Inflectionist Review | June 2020
beneath the bare cemetery birch, i dance alone
International Human Rights Art Festival Publishes | November 2019
Grace | Give Us This Day
Note: Opens in PDF, page 7
Note: Also appears in the IHRAF anthology, A Human Voice, available here
One (by Jacar Press) | August 2021
Nothing [Out of Place]
Stone of Madness Press | September 2020
A Far Cry
Blood Orange [An Offering]
Note: “Blood Orange [An Offering]” 2021 Pushcart Prize nomination
Wine Cellar Press | April 2021
The Lions, That Is
Yearling: A Poetry Journal for Working Writers | December 2022
The Blue Bulls
Note: Available in print only, sold out
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ADDITIONAL POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Abandoned Mine | February 2022
Ice Cream at Sixty
Anti-Heroin Chic | December 2019
Joshua [Every Fourth of July]
The Aurora Journal | Spring 2021
Lost in Translation
The Aurora Journal | Spring 2021
Portal
Black Bough Poetry | November 2021
Ghost Apples
Available in print only. Christmas and Winter Vol. 2
Note: Listen to “Ghost Apples” here
Calliope | Spring 2020
How Long Is a Moving Train?
Note: Also available in print
Calliope | Summer 2020
Sylvia | On Her Way
Note: Also available in print
Chronotope Magazine | March 2020
Planet Lor
Note: Opens in ISSUU reader, page 10
The Confessionalist | November 2020
Epilogue
The Courtship of Winds | January 2020
In the Showers [Sequoia National Park, 1993]
Door Is A Jar | December 2021
Some Sort of Monster
Note: Available in print only, Door=Jar Issue 21 Winter 2021
Dream Noir | August 2019
Michael | Stoned
Remembering Lance
Dreams Walking | July 2020
Invasion
Wrestling the Angel
Note: Opens in PDF, pages 29-30
Dreams Walking | August 2020
Moth & Oak
Note: Opens in PDF, page 12
The Fictional Café | August 2019
The Back of Trudy’s Head
Bridgette | Since the Accident
Creating Shondra
Lucy | Not Lucy
Note: Also appears in the anthology, The Strong Stuff: The Best of Fictional Café 2018-2020, available here
50 Haikus | August 2020
yellow dead end sign
Note: Available in print or subscribe online
Flare Journal | May 2022
Imbecile
433 Magazine | October 2020
The Tall Green Vase
Glitchwords | October 2020
Premonition
Note: Opens in PDF, page 3
Grey Sparrow Journal | Summer 2019
Daphne
HelloHorror | Autumn/Hallowe’en 2018
Ghost Tooth
Horse Egg Literary | January 2021
Wild Onions
The Ibis Head Review | December 2017
Each / Other
Note: No longer available online
Impossible Archetype | August 2018
Narcissus at Work
Impossible Archetype | August 2019
Damien
Impossible Archetype | August 2020
No Drugs for Sale Here
Note: Opens in PDF, page 77
Impossible Archetype | August 2021
Beneath the Eucalyptus
Note: Opens in PDF, page 17
The Inflectionist Review | June 2020
ensō | on circumvention of light
Iō Literary Journal | February 2021
The New Kindness
Note: Opens in ISSUU reader, page 47
Line Rider Press | February 2021
On a Bus Home From Work
Note: Featured poem February 17 to 24, 2021
Mineral Lit Mag | April 2020
you and me in a wood, though neither did, both of us wanted to
Minnow Literary Magazine | March 2022
Snowflakes
Note: Opens in PDF, page 20
Neuro Logical | August 2020
Seagulls
Nightingale & Sparrow: nevermore | Autumn/Hallowe’en 2019
Danse Macabre
Note: Also available in print, sold out
[A] Neon Garden | June 2020
echoes | transmissions of despondent travelers, boot worn
exaltation, a bloom of night wings softens the air
the ocean | cloud excused, bird-ridden
taking the voice out walking
NĪNSHAR Arts | September 2020
being missed, christian exists in [ ] time
dawn | mother of my antagonist never seeing light of day
flies on the window, caught in the heat of the night
October Hill Magazine | July 2020
Calling Distance
Note: Opens in PDF, page 123
Offcourse | March 2022
Among the Wastes of Time
Pinhole Image
Spiritual Reflection
The Open Culture Collective | December 2020
Confirmation | Dennison, Ohio c. 1962
The Open Culture Collective | December 2020
[If You Can] Call It Dancing
pacificREVIEW: Synchronous | Spring 2020
John Sits | Still
Note: Available in print only, here
The Pi Review | October 2020
eternity is but time without a period
The PoetRhy Garden | May 2020
Spells
Note: Also, translated into German
Quince Magazine | Summer 2020
Pistils
Rue Scribe | March 2021
To a Stranger
Sledgehammer Lit | November 2021
In/carnation
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine | February 2022
The Old Neighborhood
O Happy Dagger
Nostalgia
Note: Opens in ISSUU reader, pages 21-23
S/WORD | November 2020
i hear your voice, the first time i asked, and you said yes
polished to perfection in the process of dissolution
tiny wildflower pressed between the pages of a book
Visitant | September 2020
August Garden
Visitant | October 2020
The Field Guide to Nothing
The Wondrous Real Magazine | October 2020
Alien [I Want to Believe]
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INTERVIEWS
Bulb Culture Collective | July 2023
BCC Shines A Light on: Stephen Jackson
Poetry Mini Interview | February-March 2021
Conducted by Thomas Whyte
Part One: Introduction / How did you first engage with poetry?
Part Two: How does a poem begin?
Part Three: How do you know when a poem is finished?
Part Four: How does your work first enter the world?
Part Five: What are you working on?
Coda
Lambda Literary | May 2019
Mark Ward [Impossible Archetype Editor]
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