links to some of my writing

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Four poems:  The Way We Do Things, Our Music, An Allegheny Prayer, and  For the Dead of West Virginia, Still Waiting for a Better Day. 

Three poems from a series I'm working on in dialog with the poetry of the 15th c. Zen master, Ikkyu.

A brief essay and poem in reaction to cataclysmic floods in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia

Five poems: Etiquette,  Three Views of Helen Frankenthaler’s The Human Edge,  Childhood is a Country Without Borders,  Last Thoughts on Electronic Voice Projection, and  A People’s History of Randolph Co., WV .

My first collection of poems, published by Red Hen Press.

An anthology of contemporary poetry and fiction published by West Virginia University Press and edited by me and Laura Long.