RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
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Bitter Magazine | Forthcoming 2026
Ghost Moth Review | Forthcoming October 2026
New Ohio Review | Forthcoming Fall (Print) and December (Online) 2026
Sublunary Review | Forthcoming 2026
Twisted River Review | Forthcoming Winter 2026/27
The Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy | June 2026
David on the Bus
Page 20 in thumbnails. Available in print here.
Cathexis Northwest Press | May 2026
Christ, That Smile
Opens in online reader, page 8.
Cosmic Daffodil Journal | August 2026
Insomnia
Opens in PDF, page 37.
A Curious Moon | June 2026
Absolute Truth
The Dolomite Review | May 2026
Bedhead
Coming In
Tuscarawas
The Fig Tree | July 2026
The Coast Guard Captain
fourteen poems | December 2025
The Birthday Cannoli
Listen here. Available in print here.
Hare’s Paw Literary Journal | January 2026
Trinity
Click on name in bios.
Ink In Thirds | March 2026
Dahlias
Available in print and digital issues here.
Jackdaw Press | May 2026
Two haiku
The Mad River | August 2026
We Cross the River
Stone of Madness Press | August 2026
Sleepovers
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
Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | June 2025
Blood Orange [An Offering]
Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | June 2025
Two Boys | Sleeping
Prairie Fire | Winter 2023-24
Bluegill
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CHAPBOOKS
the no-man [a micro-chapbook]
Ghost City Press | July 2022
Available as a free or “by donation” downloadable PDF.
Saturnine Lives
SMBp | 2000 | Out of print.
Fifteen
SMBp | 1999 | Out of print.
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SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose | July 2023
Oh God, I’m Coming
Two Boys | Sleeping
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
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
Pushcart Prize nomination, 2018.
Nominated for inclusion in Bettering American Poetry.
The Inflectionist Review | June 2020
beneath the bare cemetery birch, i dance alone
International Human Rights Art Movement | November 2019
Grace | Give Us This Day
Opens in PDF, page 7.
Also available in the IHRAF anthology: A Human Voice.
One (by Jacar Press) | August 2021
Nothing [Out of Place]
Stone of Madness Press | September 2020
A Far Cry
Blood Orange [An Offering]
Pushcart Prize nomination, 2021.
Wine Cellar Press | April 2021
The Lions, That Is
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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
Listen here. Available in print: Christmas and Winter Vol. 2.
Bulb Culture Collective |March 2023
Inkling
Calliope | Spring 2020
How Long Is a Moving Train?
Also available in print (sold out).
Calliope | Summer 2020
Sylvia | On Her Way
Available in print (sold out).
Chronotope Magazine | March 2020
Planet Lor
Opens in online 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
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
Opens in PDF, pages 29 and 30.
Dreams Walking | August 2020
Moth & Oak
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
Also, in the print anthology: The Strong Stuff: The Best of Fictional Café 2018-2020.
50 Haikus | August 2020
yellow dead end sign
Available in print. Or subscribe online.
Flare Journal | May 2022
Imbecile
433 Magazine | October 2020
The Tall Green Vase
Glitchwords | October 2020
Premonition
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
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
Opens in PDF, page 77.
Impossible Archetype | August 2021
Beneath the Eucalyptus
Opens in PDF, page 17.
Impossible Archetype | March 2023
I Can’t Yet Say He Failed [But I Have]
Opens in PDF, page 22.
The Inflectionist Review | June 2020
ensō | on circumvention of light
Iō Literary Journal | February 2021
The New Kindness
Issue available as free downloadable PDF, poem on page 47.
Line Rider Press | February 2021
On a Bus Home From Work
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
Opens in PDF, page 20.
Neuro Logical | August 2020
Seagulls
Nightingale & Sparrow: nevermore | Autumn/Hallowe’en 2019
Danse Macabre
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
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
pacific REVIEW: Synchronous | Spring 2020
John Sits | Still
Available in print only: pacific REVIEW 2020: A West Coast Arts Review Annual
The Pi Review | October 2020
eternity is but time without a period
The PoetRhy Project | May 2020
Spells
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
Opens in online 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]
Yearling: A Poetry Journal for Working Writers | December 2022
The Blue Bulls
Available in print only (sold out).
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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 [Editor, Impossible Archetype]
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