Books [Mini-chapbooks, chapbooks, and full-length collections]
There’s No Future Where We Don’t Have Fire (Unsolicited Press, 2027)
It’s Easy To Lose Your Breath (Match Factory Editions, 2026)
You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn’t You (Ghost City Press, August 2022)
Do Us a Favor (Variant Literature, August 2021)
Five Seconds Could Last Five Years, a summer mixtape poetry collection (July 2020)
Lucid, a poetry micro-chapbook (The Poetry Annals, June 2018)
My Ear is a Sieve, a poetry chapbook (Bottlecap Press, October 2017)
Poems
2026
“Most of the World’s Countries Meet to Tell Us That We’re on the Precipice” (Temple in a City, forthcoming 2026)
2025
“The Reclamation of Myth” (Feral, December 2025)
“It’s Easy to Lose Your Breath”, “There’s Always a Warm Spell in February”, & “What If I Told You Lemon Trees Once Existed” (antonym, December 2025)
“A Blue Jay Flies into the Window” (Some Words, December 2025)
“A New Year Grows Its First Set of Teeth” (Indianapolis Review, July 2025)
“I Missed My Calling” (Cataloguing Poetry Magazine, July 2025)
“There’s No Future Where We Don’t Have Fire” (Livina Press, May 2025)
“March” (Boats Against the Current, March 2025)
“We’re Humming Al Green Songs As We Get Ready for Bed” (Memoir Mixtapes, March 2025)
2024
“April Tanka” & “An Icy Triptych” (Wasteland Review, December 2024)
“Dawn Again” (Great Lakes Review, October 2024)
“During the First Year of the Pandemic, a Frog Snuck into the House” (Ghost City Review, October 2024)
“After the Start of Summer” (Moist Poetry Journal, August 2024)
“Thinking about The Phenomenology of Perception while Drinking Homemade Romanian Wine on a Train” (The Ocean State Review, August 2024)
“Out of Luck” (Gordon Square Review, April 2024)
“Rotation” (The Bookends Review, April 2024)
“Perfection” (VERDANT Journal, February 2024)
2023
“In 1984″, “Sisyphus”, “The Last Dream I Had Involved a Trail”, & “Wandering around the House with a Gin Martini in my Hand“ (antonym, December 2023)
“Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” (Major 7th Magazine, December 2023)
“It Was Never Easy” (Pilgrimage Press, September 2023) print
“Sunset Before the Apocalypse” (Voicemail Poems, August 2023)
“Still Dreaming as the World Breaks” and “I’m Fine” (Midway Journal, July 2023)
“Before the Next Storm” (Boats Against the Current, July 2023)
“The Aurora Borealis Reached Cleveland Last Night and All We Did Was Watch His Dark Materials” (The Daily Drunk Mag, July 2023)
“Waiting,” “Cottonwoods”, & “Just a Speck Talking Here” (antonym, June 2023)
“An Apocalyptic Easter Sunday, 2030, or Any Year After the Current One” (50-Word Stories, May 2023)
“Low Level” (Pinhole Poetry, March 2023)
“Heat Wave” & “I Walked Into My Grandmother’s Bungalow” (TMP Magazine, February 2023)
“Now That I Don’t Run Around Barefoot” & “-1-” (Loft Books, January 2023)
2022
“Ground” (Thimble Literary Magazine, June 2022)
“Just Wait” (Door is a Jar, June 2022) print
“Ley Lines” (Dead Skunk Mag, April 2022)
“Don’t Tell Me You Don’t Dream” (bs/ws zine’s 7 Deadly Sins issue, March 2022)
“Our Wavelengths Are Aligned” (Noctivagant Press, March 2022)
“The Air Hasn’t Felt This Deadly since Last October” (TMP Magazine, February 2022)
“The Night I Couldn’t See the Eclipse Because It’s Cloudy and Supposed to Snow” (Idle Ink, January 2022)
2021
“In Tampa” (Sledgehammer Lit, December 2021)
“Breadcrumbs” (Ink Drinkers, September 2021)
“Theseus and Ariadne (or, Ariadne and Theseus)” (Moonchild Magazine, September 2021)
“As I Am Stung By A Persistent Yellow Jacket” (The Jupiter Review, June 2021)
“April 3rd“, “I Intended To Go / On An Innocent Walk” & “These Eclipses Happen Often” (CP Quarterly, June 2021)
“Lodestone” (Lucent Dreaming, April 2021) print
“Pour Leaves over My Head” (The Ocean State Review, February 2021)
“Alchemy” (The Aurora Journal, February 2021)
2020
“Cold Fronts” (Fahmidan Journal, December 2020)
“Bachkovo“, “Chalcedon“, & “Coal and Ash” (Pushcart Prize nominee) (Signal Mountain Review, November 2020)
“Fireworks” (Kissing Dynamite Poetry, November 2020)
“Savior” (Non.Plus Lit, October 2020)
“On a Parks & Recreation Nostalgia Trip in 2020” (The Daily Drunk Mag, October 2020)
“You Had Your Soul With You” (Perhappened Mag, August 2020)
“December 10th” (Mineral Lit Mag, March 2020)
“Mary Arrives at Ocean City after 15 Years” (Lines+Stars, February 2020)
“Church Youth-Group Lock-Ins Are Supposed To Be About Getting Closer / To God” (Ghost City Review, February 2020)
“I Would Like You To Do Us A Favor…” published in Poets Resist Series (Glass Poetry, January 2020)
2019
“They Are Bascule Bridges” (Rabid Oak, August 2019)
“Fire” (Nightingale & Sparrow, August 2019)
“The Fates” (Random Sample Review, August 2019)
“Bread & Wine” (Riggwelter, July 2019)
“Proprioception” & “Should I Sit Down” (Dream Noir, March 2019)
“While Wading Knee-Deep in the Ocean” (8 Poems, January 2019)
2018
“Hovering” (Indicia, December 2018)
“Last Night I Dreamt” (Last Exit, November 2018)
“Tracks” (The Bookends Review, March 2018)
“First Flight” (Ghost City Review, February 2018)
2017
“Time” & “December” (The Wire’s Dream, December 2017)
“Trees” (Noble Gas Qtrly, December 2017)
“Eat At…” & “Phenomena” (L’Ephemere Review, October 2017)
“Istanbul, 2013” (Rise Up Review, January 2017)
“When I See My Wife…” and others (Rising Phoenix Review, 2017)
2016
“Istanbul, 2007” (Silver Birch Press, September 2016)
… and more.
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“Great Lakes Brewing Company’s TropiCoastal” (September 2021)
“Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Crushworthy Lo-Cal Citrus Wheat Ale” (April 2021)
“Great Lakes Brewing Company Launches New Canning Line” (October 2020)
“Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Hazecraft IPA” (September 2020)
“Bottlehouse Brewery’s Rising Star Stout” (February 2020)
“Urban Artifact’s Pickle” (July 2019)
“Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Great Lakes IPA” (March 2019)
“Platform Beer Co’s High Brow Barista” (February 2019)
“Fat Head’s Brewery Sunshine Daydream” (November 2018)
“Great Lakes Brewing Company’s Holy Moses White Ale” (January 2018)
“Great Lakes Brewing Cans are Now Available” (July 2017)
“Ultimate 6er: Cleveland Indians” (October 2016)
“Fat Head’s Brewery Pimp My Sleigh” (December 2015)
“Event Preview: Burning River Fest” (August 2015)
“The Brew Kettle’s All For One Session IPA” (April 2015)
“Ultimate 6er: Robert Burns’ Night” (January 2015)
“Wells and Young’s Brewery’s McEwan’s Scotch Ale” (November 2014)
“Ultimate 6er: Märzen Madness” (October 2014)
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