Published Poetry

This is a list of my poems that have been published over the last several years.

PUBLICATIONS

Whole Cloth: Sacred Stories in Verse (2011). Fields Publishing, Inc. (This is a self-published collection of poems on biblical subjects, divided into four parts: Old Stories, Nativity, Beatitudes, and New Stories.)

Whole Cloth: Sacred Stories in Verse, Second Edition (2012). Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC.

The Indigo (the Literary Journal of William Carey University)

2010
Half a Chance
Banana Pudding*
Greens*
Corn Bread*
*also published in the Magnolia Quarterly

2011
Mother of Exiles
Coastal Lament
Count Me Not Among Thine Accusers**
Miriam Weeps**
**(also published in Whole Cloth: Sacred Stories in Verse)

2012
Leave the Kids at Home
Crow

2014
Thou Art the Man
With Twain He Covered His Face

2016
Where Men Gather
Second Baptism

2017 indigo2017.pdf (wmcarey.edu)
My Wife Says I Can’t Be a Cowboy Poet
A Prayer for Father’s Day
For Whom the Notification Chimes

2018 Indigo2018web.pdf (wmcarey.edu)
Knots I Have Known
Source and Provenance
Washington County, 1956

2019 Indigo2019web.pdf (wmcarey.edu)
Bottle Tree
Shall Now I Lament the Singer of Summer

2021 Indigo2021_3.pdf (wmcarey.edu)
Requiem for a Wheel

Magnolia Quarterly (Gulf Coast Writers Association)

2010
Greens†
Corn Bread†
Banana Pudding†
† also published in The Indigo.

2012
Rain Dance

2013
Cow Hide Rocking Chair
Grand Canyon Sweet

The Spill (West Florida Literary Foundation)

2010

Mississippi Coast Lament
Tarballs

CONTESTS

Chronicle of Higher Education

2010
On First Looking Into Groening’s Homer (First Runner Up)

Let’s Write Literary Contest

2010
Night By Night They Visit Me In Sleep (3rd Place)

2013
Rachel Weeps Again (1st Place)