WORK

Selected Poems

You Aren’t Sure & I May Not

Dear Skull

My Dead Grandfather

Physical Education

Introduction & other poems

Last of the Month, read by Kathryn Smith

Houseboat

Relativity

Aerial + Poetry

Publications

Poetry

• “Affidavit for Self-Care…”, “Spring,” “Bouquet,” Nimrod, fall 2020.
• “Effluvium,” Massachusetts Review, 2019.
• “Bloom,” Colorado Review, 2019.
• “Relativity,” Cortland Review, 2019.
• “Leap/Bound,” “Savvy (Elegy for Google Glass)” Gertrude Press, september 2019.
• “Erotica,” “The Great Smoke Pall, 1950,” The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2019.
• “Tonight, Unkempt,” “Grief, a Grammar,” december, 2018.
• “Chastened,” “House Show,” NECK, 2018.
• “Waste Recovery,”  Gulf Coast, 2018.
• “Houseboat”, Poetry Northwest, 2018.
• “Nonsomnolent,” “Lodgepole,”  SpoKe Poetry Annual, 2018.
• “Vital Signs,” Poetry Daily, 2018.
• “Hunting Season,” Poem of the Week, Narrative Magazine, Feb 19, 2018.
• “Introduction (At least once…),” “Dusk,” “Introduction (At first I thought…)”, “Dénouement,”  RADAR,  2017/18.
• “Electromagnetic,”  Barrow Street, Winter 2017.
• “The Scientist Who Reveals…”  32 Poems, Summer 2017.
• “Dear Skull,” Best American Poetry, Natasha Trethewey, ed., 2017.
• “Semen,” “Spitshine,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 2017.
• “bitches,” And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, Ron Reikki, ed., Michigan State UP, 2017.
• “Memorial,” Washington 129. Tod Marshall, ed. Sage Hill Press, 2017.
• “Cover Stories” “Introduction,” “Span” Nimrod, Fall/Winter 2016
• Bodies,” “Vector,” “Break In,” “The Violence,” “Knock Knock,” “It’s Winter,” “Proposal,” in Not A Single Cell Stand Still, poetry/visual art collaboration with Sonja Dahl, 7×7.la, March 2016.
• “Dear Skull,” Georgia Review, spring 2016.
• Surface, Collembola Vernacular, Nomeclatural Acts, Animal Mineral Vegetable,” Soil Dwellers, Artist Book collaboration with Emilie Bess, Catherine Alice, & Melanie Valera, August 2015.
• Superior, Varsity Athletics, Until the Heavens Ring,”  Nimrod, Fall/Winter 2015.
• “Rules of the Game” Knockout Literary Magazine, 2015.
• “Vital Signs, Not in the Same Way Again,” Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Ron Riekki, ed. Michigan State UP, spring 2015.
• “Lacustrine,” Crab Orchard Review, fall/winter 2015.
• “Not in the Same Way Again,”  Floating Bridge Review, summer 2014.
• “Take Care, I Love You,” Rock & Sling, spring 2014.
• “Physical Education,” Best New Poets, 2014.
• “Ways to Hunt Deer,” “My Father’s Datebook,” in The Way North: Collected Upper Michigan New Works, Ron Reikki, ed. Wayne State UP, 2013.
• My Dead Grandfather,” The Far Field, Kathleen Flenniken, ed, 2013.
• “ After Winter,” Discoveries: New Writing from the Iowa Review, Russell Scott Valentino, ed. Iowa UP , 2012.
• “Not in the Same Way Again,” Mississippi Review, summer 2012.
• “You Aren’t Sure & I May Not,” “After Winter, “My Dead Grandfather,” “Weight Training,” “Menstrual,” “Premises,” The Iowa Review, winter 2011.
• “Before Ghosts,” “Last of the Month,” “Vital Signs,” in The Florida Review, winter 2009.
• “Parsimony,” in Oberon, 2009.
• Red and Rojo,” in Cutthroat, spring 2009.

Prose

• “Emily Van Kley Recommends…” Poets & Writers, 2022.
• “Lines for ‘Obit (The Doctors'” 32 Poems, 2017.
• “On Distance,” Essay Daily, Ander Monson, ed., Oct 2015.
• “Old Machines,” in Salamander, winter 2010.
• “Scrap Metal,” in The Republic of Letters, spring 2007 .
• “Wheat Dust,” in Faultline, Spring 2005.

Honors

• James Merrill Poetry Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2022.
• Civitella Ranieri Fellow, 2018.
• Tucson Book Festival Literary Awards, (Second Place) 2017.
• Coniston Prize, (Finalist) 2017.
• Narrative Poetry Prize, (Finalist) 2017.
• Poem chosen for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017.
• Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, 2017.
• Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, (Finalist) 2016.
• Backwaters Prize, (Finalist) 2016.
• Loraine Williams Poetry Prize (The Georgia Review), 2015.
• Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, (Honorable Mention) 2015.
• Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Poetry Prize, (Semi-finalist) 2015.
• Poem chosen for inclusion in Best New Poets 2013.
• Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize, (Runner-up) 2013.
• Iowa Review Award, 2011.
• Florida Review Editor’s Prize, 2009 .
• River Styx International Poetry Contest, (Semi-finalist) 2013.
• Mississippi Review Award, (Finalist) 2012.
• Salamander Fiction Prize, (Honorable Mention) 2010.
• Rita Dove Poetry Prize, (Finalist) 2011.
• Narrative Magazine Below 30 Award, (Finalist) 2009.
• Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, (Honorable Mention) 2009.
• Oberon Poetry Prize, (Honorable Mention) 2009.