Publications and Public Appearances
Books
Fiction
Inland Empire Afternoon. Flash fiction collection from Bath Flash Fiction Award, Ad Hoc Press, December 2019.
California Continuum: Volume 1 with Grant Hier. Flash fiction collection from Pelekinesis Press, March 2019.
Co-Editor of The L.A. Short Fiction Anthology. Anthology featuring the work of Los Angeles professors from Red Hen Press, May 2016.
Featuring work by authors such as T.C. Boyle, Ron Carlson, Percival Everett, Judith Freeman, Lloyd Aquino, Dibakar Barua, Sean Bernard, Marcielle Brandler, Michael Buckley, Jo Scott-Coe, Stephen Cooper, Michelle Dowd, Lisa Glatt, Suzanne Greenberg, Kathy Silvey Hall, Stephanie Barbé Hammer, Mick Haven, Grant Hier, Daniel Holland, Cathy Irwin, Dana Johnson, Gerald Locklin, Zachary Locklin, Clint Margrave, Ruth Nolan, Daniel A. Olivas, Cynthia Prochaska, Robert Roberge, Ryan Sarehkhani, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Anthony Starros, and Kareem Tayyar.
Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods. Short story collection from World Parade Books, March 2013.
Mann of War. Suspense / thriller novel from Oak Tree Press, January 2013.
Poetry
Editor of Words and Images. Ekphrastic Collection from the Sasse Museum of Art. Fall 2021.
Objects of Curiosity. Ekphrastic Online Poetry Collection. June 2020. Sasse Museum of Art. https://sasseartmuseum.org/museum_catalogs.htm
A Public Conversation. Ekphrastic Online Poetry Collection. August 2020. Sasse Museum of Art. https://sasseartmuseum.org/museum_catalogs.htm
Crossing the High Sierra. Poetry collection focusing on Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks from Cholla Needles Press, April 2019.
A Sublime and Tragic Dance. Poetry collection co-written with Kendall Johnson from Cholla Needles Press. May 2018.
Dual Impressions: Poetic Conversations about Art. Poetry collection co-written with Jeffrey Graessley from Silver Birch Press, August 2015.
The Green of Sunset. Poetry collection from Moon Tide Press, November 2013.
East of Los Angeles. Poetry collection published by Anaphora Literary Press, February 2011.
Nonfiction
The Gift of Form: A Pocket Guide to Formal Poetry. Spout Hill Press. A guide to writing formal poetry, February 2013.
Fiction Chapbooks
Life: Orange to Pear. Bamboo Dart Press, November 2020.
finding mr pembrooke. Storylandia. September 2019.
Poetry Chapbooks
Lightning Storm. Included in Silver Birch Press’s Swallow Dance.
The Mediterranean Garden. Published by Finishing Line Press.
Heroes for Today. Published by Pudding House Press.
Putting in a Window. Published by Finishing Line Press.
Memoir Chapbooks
Kitkitdizzi. Published by Bamboo Dart Press, August 2022.
Short Stories
“Heron Wading through the Shallows.” Pinch Journal. Autumn 2023.
“Monster.” The Closed Eye Open. Autumn 2023.
“A Little Case of Death.” South Florida Poetry Journal. Autumn 2023.
“Miracle Frogs.” The Umbrella Factory. Autumn 2023.
“Ian, Who Lives on the Mountain Overlooking the City Where He Works.” Street Light Magazine. Autumn 2023.
“Anabelle and the Toad.” North American Review. Autumn 2023.
“Carla Gets the Call that Her Mother Is Off the Ventilator.” Crescendo Magazine. Autumn 2023.
“The Joy of Snakes.” Spank the Carp. Summer 2023.
“Dignity among Toads.” On the Run. Summer 2023.
“When the Earth Is Quiet,” “Messages,” and “Friday.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Autumn 2023.
“The Miracle of Stones and Snakes,” “Butterfly Wing,” “A Pebbled Paradise,” and “It’s Not So Much That You’re Thirsty.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Summer 2023.
“A Sinful Place.” The Kolkata Arts. Summer 2023.
“Try to Stay Well Hidden in the Leaves.” Uppagus. Summer 2023.
“The Desert in Autumn.” ZiN Daily. Summer 2023.
“Raccoons and Fireflies.” Dionysian Public Library. Summer 2023.
“Teal.” Flash Fiction Magazine. Autumn 2023.
“As Big as the Mississippi.” Salamander Ink. Summer 2023.
“Toads down Deep in the Loam.” On the Seawall. Summer 2023.
“Indiana Summer.” Litro Online. Summer 2023.
“A Fine Morning for Toads.” Avalon Literary Review. Summer 2023.
“The Mammoth inside You.” Synchronized Chaos. Spring 2023.
“Woodchucks without Sense.” The Medley. Winter 2023.
“Carla Brings Cookies To Her Mother's Wake.” Tabula Rasa Review. Winter 2023.
“Tanya Sits on the Curb at the Bus Stop Outside the Office Building,” “Tim Sits in the Bathroom Stall Trying to Maintain,” and “Taylor Sits on the Bench in the Hallway Alone During Lunch-Break.” Rathalla. Winter 2023.
“The Last Weekend.” Fictive Dream. Winter 2023
“The Murder of Toads, 1958.” Shark Reef Magazine. Fall 2022.
“Awkward Little Creatures that Flail about, 1956.” Mayday Magazine. Winter 2022.
“To Dream of Woodpeckers, 2010.” Meniscus Journal. Winter 2022.
“The Night, the Dark, and Bats, 1952.” Synchronized Chaos. Summer 2022.
Nominated for Best of the Net 2022. “The Night, the Dark, and Bats, 1952.” from Synchronized Chaos.
“Tanya Eats a Peach While She Waits for the Bus to Take her Home from Work,” “Tim Sections His Divorce Peach,” and “Taylor Tells Himself Later that He Missed the Peach on Purpose.” The Kolkata Arts. Summer 2022.
“Racing Deer.” The Wild Word. Fall 2022.
“Moth of Civil Twilight” and “Crows that Weep for Peanuts.” ZiN Daily. Fall 2022.
“Bobcats of Love.” The Dodge. Fall 2022.
“Miracle Turtles.” Violet Hour Magazine. Fall 2022.
“Memory Woodpeckers.” Poppy Road Review. Summer 2022.
“His Own Cool World of Toads.” Orca Literary Magazine. Fall 2022.
“Like a Million Butterflies.” Flash Fiction Online. Summer 2022.
“Raptors at Work.” The Airgonaut. Fall 2022.
“On Becoming a Bat.” Flash Fiction Magazine. Fall 2022.
“The Wrens of War.” Stirrings. Fall 2022.
“Crows, Talking to Him, 1963.” The Los Angeles Review. Summer 2022.
“The Language of Toads.” Reflex Press. Summer 2022
“Giving Thanks.” Willows Wept Review. Fall 2022.
“Redlands, California.” Café Lit. April 2022.
“Mary before Degas’s Dancers in the Rotunda at the Paris Opera.” McQueen’s Quinterly. Summer 2022.
“Little Dancer, Aged 75, Paris 1940.” McQueen’s Quinterly. Summer 2022.
“Finnegans (Fiance Goes MacArthur Park on His Birthday) Cake.” Best Small Fictions 2022. 2022.
“Avocado.” Furious Gazelle. Winter 2022.
“The World of Zornes.” Litro Magazine. Summer 2022.
“The Ragpicker, 1870 Edouard Manet” and “Finnegans (Fiancée Goes MacArthur Park on His Birthday) Cake.” Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2022.
“Twilight Loons.” Shark Reef Magazine. Fall 2021.
Nomination for Best Microfiction 2022. “The Big Fish” and “Stallions.”
“Her Wings.” Severine Literary Journal. Fall 2021.
“Side Gate.” Five South. Fall 2021.
“Her Father’s Loquats.” Fewer than 500. Fall 2021.
“Finnegans (Fiance Goes MacArthur Park on His Birthday) Cake” and “The Big Fish.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Summer 2021.
“This Moment Between Moments.” New World Writing. Summer 2021.
“Little Man.” Bath Flash Fiction Anthology. Summer 2021.
“Watch Me” and “Say My Name.” Shark Reef Magazine. Summer 2021.
“Stallions.” The Reckon Review. Spring 2021.
“Seal Rock, California, 1872, Albert Bierstadt.” Wards. Spring 2021.
“In a More Perfect Calexico.” Waxing and Waning. Spring 2021.
“Desert.” NOMADartx. Spring 2021.
“Backcountry.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Anthology. Spring 2021.
“The Bottles, 1960 Richard Diebenkorn” Ekphrastic Review. Spring 2021.
“Mouth Full of Teeth.” MORIA. Spring 2021.
“The Ragpicker, 1870 Edouard Manet.” Rabid Oak. Spring 2021.
“Maria, Maria, Maria.” Talking River Review. Summer 2021.
“Peel.” Thimble Magazine. Summer 2021.
“Little Dance, Aged 70, Paris 1940.” Willows Wept. Spring 2021.
“Emilia, on Her Death Bed.” Wild Word Magazine. Spring 2021.
“J. Robert Oppenheimer Returns to the Desert in His Twenties.” Writer’s Egg. Spring 2021.
“Shadow Brother.” Westchester Review. Spring 2021.
“What the World Has.” Uppagus. Summer 2021.
“Under the Orange Tree,” “Where Have You Gone,” “Rose,” and “Shakshouka.” Flash Boulevard. Spring 2021.
“Rudy Next Door” and “Jane Next Door.” Fictive Dream. Spring 2021.
“Window Pane,” “Dreamland,” “Journal,” and “Diary.” Flash Fiction North. Winter 2021.
“Lizzy.” Redshift. Spring 2021.
“Lamp Post” and “Stop Light.” Worthing Flash. Spring 2021
“Pear.” Pushcart Prize Nominated by Shark Reef Magazine. December 2020.
“Stump.” Cabinet of Heed. Summer 2020.
“Knead.” Chosen by Wigleaf as one of the best 200 Flash Fiction stories of 2019. Originally published in Spelk Fiction.
“Wild Joshua Trees.” Cambridge Flash Fiction Contest, Highly Commended. Summer 2020.
“Susan.” Alluvian. Summer 2020.
“Still Life with a Fowl.” The Drunken Boat Anthology. Summer 2020.
“The Santa Monica Mountains.” The Broad River Review. Summer 2020.
“Pear.” Shark Reef Magazine. Spring 2020.
“Buddy.” Across the Margin. Spring 2020.
“A Rare Moment of Loquat.” Worthing Flash. Spring 2020.
“Standing beneath the Tree of Knowledge.” Freshwater. Winter 2020.
“Alex.” CommuterLit. Winter 2020.
“Little Dancer, Aged 14.” 1st Place in the Flash Fiction Category for Crossroads Competition. Winter 2019.
“Allen.” Shark Reef Magazine. Fall 2019.
“Bearing.” Honorable Mention. Writer Advice Contest. Fall 2019.
“Watershed.” Fiction Kitchen Berlin. Fall 2019.
“This Multiverse.” Worthing Flash. Summer 2019.
“Fat Tuesday.” Gemini Literary Magazine. Summer 2019.
“Like a Ton of Bricks.” Meniscus. Spring 2019
“Knead.” Spelk. Spring 2019.
“Bear Waltz.” 1st Place for Flash Fiction. Seven Hills Literary Review. Spring 2019.
“Raccoons under the House.” The Drabble. Winter 2018.
“White Line.” Reflex Fiction. Spring 2019.
“What Do You Remember?” Night Garden Journal. Winter 2018
“Cogito.” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2019.
“Aftershock.” The Potato Soup Journal. Winter 2018.
“The Fourth Generation of Migrating Butterflies.” Iron Horse Literary Review –News Flash. Winter 2018.
“Consequences.” Fewer than 500. Spring 2019.
“Breakroom.” Bending Genres. Winter 2018.
“Stanleys.” Spank the Carp. Fall 2018.
“mr pembrooke’s good jesus.” Short List. Bath Flash Fiction Award. Fall 2018.
“Basic Dignity,” “Zebras Who Hang onto Earth Upside Down,” and “Tooth Fairy.” (mac)ro(mic) Fall 2018.
“fifteen years.” Worthing Flash. Fall 2018.
“Mulligan.” Flash Fiction Magazine. Winter 2018.
“Mistress.” Antipodean Science Fiction. Winter 2018
“The King of Clap.” Flash Fiction Anthology. Ad Hoc Press. Winter 2018.
“20 Seconds During an Earthquake in Walnut, California.” Winner of Ad Hoc Fiction’s weekly contest. Fall 2018
“Fries and Coffee.” Literally Fiction. Fall 2018.
Semi-Finalist for The Best Small Fictions 2018 for “She Wonders Vietnam.”
“You’ve Been Told Twice Already.” Flash Fiction Magazine. Spring 2018.
“The Ghost of Murrieta.” Writers Bloc Magazine. Spring 2017.
“She Wonders Vietnam.” Gemini Literary Magazine. August 2017.
“Posse.” DASH Literary Journal. Spring 2017.
“Playing Chess with Gary Snyder.” Broad River Review. Spring 2017.
“Nathaniel.” The Storyteller. Summer 2016.
“A Kind of Social Justice.” Inlandia Institute. Spring 2016.
“Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods.” The California Prose Directory. April 2016.
“Ferdinand, Lincoln, McKinley.” Muse. Spring 2016.
“1850.” Manifest West. Summer 2016.
“All of Those Boys Are Dead Now.” Broad River Review. Spring 2016.
“Art in the West.” Linden Avenue Review. Spring 2016.
“Jack Daniel.” The Blotter Magazine. Spring 2016.
“The Ocean Will Eat Us All.” Litro Magazine, NY. Fall 2016.
"In the Land of Drought.” Eleventh Transmission. Winter 2016.
“The Water Hunter.” Verdad. Winter 2016
“The View from the Monkey Bars.” In Parenthesis. Fall 2015.
"When Rachel Sleeps.” Winamop. October 2015
“In the Tule Fog.” The Nashwaak Review. Summer 2015.
“The Savior.” The MacGuffin. Spring/Summer 2015.
“The Sorrowful Music of Cows.” Shadowgraph Online Quarterly. 2015.
“The Sweetness of Milk.” Southern California Review. 2015
Pushcart Prize Nomination for work published in 2014.
"Out Above Fontana." Gemini Literary Magazine. Spring 2015
“The California Water War.” Tahoma Literary Review. Spring 2015.
“The Golden Gate Bridge.” Avalon Literary Journal. Summer 2015.
"The Richest Man in the Desert." The Blotter. Spring 2015.
“Daughter of the Mammoth Hunter.” Golden Key. Fall 2014.
“Honeymoon in Watertown.” East Jasmine Review. Fall 2013
“Deena and the Bear.” Inlandia Journal. Spring 2013.
“The Sleeping Woman.” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2013.
“At the Barbershop.” 4’33. Spring 2013.
“Prince Toto, Despot of the Ant Nation.” Carnival Literary Magazine. Spring 2013.
“Giving Carol Away.” Rind Literary Magazine. Fall 2012.
“The Sleeping Woman.” The Blotter. April 2012.
“The Phone Call.” The Snailmail Review. Spring 2012.
“The God Phone.” Creepy Gnome. Spring 2012.
Two Nominations for Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXVI.
“Deena’s Cabin.” Monomyth. November 2012.
“Roger’s Secret Truth.” Carnival Magazine. June 2012.
“Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods.” Confrontation. Summer 2012.
“The Secret of Crows.” The Delinquent. Spring 2012.
“The Christmas Cabin.” Nite-Writers International Literary Arts Journal. Spring 2012.
Pushcart Prize nomination for Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXVI.
“The Monkey Trials.” Verdad. 2011.
“Bees.” Booth. 2011.
“The Sister.” Frogmore Papers. 2011.
“Even Puppets Must Die.” Tequila Tales Anthology. 2010.
“In the Land of Bears.” Confrontation. Summer 2010.
“Fish Drop.” Blotter Magazine. May 2010.
“Big Rick and General Patton.” Concho River Review. Spring 2010.
“Harrison Dreams of Murder.” Beatlick News. Spring 2010.
“Harrison’s Truck Won’t Start.” The Interpreter’s House. Spring 2010.
“Goodbye and All of That.” Elements. Spring 2010.
“The Norton Simon Museum of Art.” Zahir. April 2010.
“Sheila and Grover.” The Frogmore Papers. March 2009.
“It’s None of My Business Anyway.” Monomyth. 2008.
“The Last Time I Saw Hank.” The Licking River Review. 2007
“The Last Time I Saw Hank.” Don’t Read This. Winter 2007.
“Goodbye and All of That” Don’t Read This. Spring 2006.
“A Paradise of Dinner” and “Nancy Treyger’s #1 Fan” What a Trip, a writing textbook. Fall 2005.
“Tuesday Morning.” Fire. Spring 2005.
“Guillermo.” Tears in the Fence. Fall 2005.
“Life without Elvis.” Popular Culture Association’s 2004 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Spring 2004.
“Genesis Bowl” Branches. Fall 2003.
"Life without Elvis" The Journal. Summer 2003.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. 2003.
"The Game," "The Velvet Fog," "Nancy Treyger's #1 Fan," "Harum and Scarum," and "Bribing a Dutchman" The New Short Fiction Series. A reading of my fiction in the Beverly Hills Library by professional actors. September 13, 2002.
"Harum and Scarum" Are You Mad? A writing textbook. 2002.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses. 2002.
"The Sweet Music of Sex" The Chiron Review. Spring 2002.
The Old Man with No Thumbs: A Love Story. Nominated for 2001 Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award for overlooked and unpublished manuscripts.
“Dad” Spout. Summer 2000.
"Growing up in the Red Desert” Bender Magazine. Summer 2000.
"Nancy Treyger's #1 Fan" Winner of the 1999 Pearl Magazine Award for short fiction. Published in Pearl.
"Champagne" RipRap. Spring 1999.
"Joe" The J-Man Times. Spring 1999.
"Bribing a Dutchman" Chiron Review. Spring 1999.
"Dad" Pleiades. December 1998.
"Genesis Bowl" The Search for Origins. December 1997.
"Genesis Bowl" at Odyssey reading in Long Beach, California. December 1997.
"Really Big Goldfish" at When Words Collide reading in Long Beach, California. September 1997. Public reading of my short fiction.
"Really Big Goldfish" Short Stories Bimonthly. September 1997.
"A One Track Mind" at M.F.A. reading in Long Beach, California. June 1997. Reading of a portion of my novella.
Poems
“The Everyday Miracle of Walking on Water,” “This Side of the Marsh,” and “The Wind Here Calls to You.” A New Ulster. Autumn 2023.
“It Slushes between Her Toes.” The Red Noise Collective. Summer 2023.
“On the Edge of the Marsh," "Driving into Upstate after 45 Years Away," and "Log in the Pond." Word City Literary Journal. Summer 2023.
“Butterfly Summer,” “Orange Summer Newt,” “Chicken of the Forest,” and “Small Columns of Stone.” Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Summer 2023.
“Lake House,” "First Morning in Town," and “Trail that Has No Name.” The Write Launch. Summer 2023.
“The Season of Rotting Leaves.” Your Daily Poem. Autumn 2023.
“Symphony.” Young Ravens Review. Summer 2023.
“Tonight.” Two Thirds North. Summer 2023.
“Paul Klee’s After the Flood.” Locust Candy. Summer 2023.
“Joan Miro's The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,” “Joan Miro's Bird's Flight in Moonlight,” and “Joan Miro's Bleu II.” Louisiana Literature. Summer 2023.
“Cache.” Muleskinner Journal. Summer 2023
“Cyrus," and "Canada Geese." According to the Coroner Magazine. Summer 2023.
“Windstorm.” Ephemeral Elegies. Summer 2023.
“Jacques-Louis David's The Intervention of the Sabine Women: The Infants" and “Jacques-Louis David's The Intervention of the Sabine Women: A Kind of Peace." Rabid Oak. Summer 2023.
“Age of Isolation.” As It Ought to Be. Summer 2023.
“Tonight.” McNeese Review. Summer 2023.
"Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon Propaganda," "Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon Notre Dame," and "Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon Beguilement." Dark Onus Lit. Spring 2023.
"Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: This Is Bad," "Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: This Is How It Happened," and "Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: This Is No Less Curious." Lunaris. Summer 2023
“Paternoster.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Winter 2023.
“Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: This Is the Worst.” As It Ought to Be. Spring 2023.
“The Earth Waits for You,” “Trap Door,” and “Forest Home.” The Raven Review. Spring 2023.
“Autumn in New York.” Aji Magazine. Spring 2023.
“Since COVID,” “Grass Farm,” “All the Way at the End of August,” and “They’ve All Gone Away Now.” Lothlorien Poetry Review. Winter 2023
“Joan Miro’s Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird,” and “Joan Miro’s Wall of the Sun.” The Stickman Review. Winter 2023.
“Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: Cartloads for the Cemetery," "Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: Bury Them and Keep Quiet," and "Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: And They Are Fierce." The Volney Road Review. Winter 2023.
“The Other Edge of the Field.” Fresh Words: Contemporary Poems Anthology. Spring 2023.
"Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: They Cannot Agree" and "Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War: And It Cannot Be Helped." Consequences. Winter 2023.
“Paul Klee’s Heroic Roses.” The Road Not Taken. Winter 2023.
“Joan Miro’s Catalan Landscape (The Hunter).” Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art. Fall 2022.
“Coming Home.” NiftyLit. Fall 2022.
“Family Court.” Ethel Zine. Fall 2022.
"The Grass Is Spackled with Light," "Awakening," and "Canvas." The Field Guide Magazine. Summer 2022.
“Jacques-Louis David's Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children.” Roi Faineant Literary Press. July 2022.
“Paul Klee’s Aged Phoenix.” Wild Roof Journal. Summer 2022.
“Paul Klee’s Introducing the Miracle.” MacQueen’s Quinterly, Summer 2022.
“Baldy” and “This Dawn.” As Above As Below. Summer 2022.
“Mt. Semeru.” Floyd County Moonshine Magazine. Summer 2022.
“House Sparrow.” Ephemeral Elegies. Spring 2022.
“This Survival," "This Morning, the Sky Is Yellow," and "Where the Bog Will Be." Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Spring 2022.
“Joan Miro's Constellations in Love,” “Joan Miro's World Trade Center Tapestry,” and “Joan Miro's Harlequin's Carnival.” Rabid Oak. Spring 2022.
“Joan Miro’s Portrait of Vincent Nubiola.” As It Ought to Be. Spring 2022.
Nomination for Best of the Net. “1 A.M.”
"Sticky Monkey Flower,” “Drone,” and “Up Top.” Cholla Needles. Fall 2021.
“Noon," "3 PM," "6 PM," "7:30 PM," and "11 PM." ce. Summer 2021.
“Grandfather,” “Noon,” “6pm,” and “Euclid Avenue.” Cholla Needles. Spring 2021.
“Euclid Avenue.” Cacti Fur. Spring 2021.
“Bus Stop.” Lost Pilots. Spring 2021.
“Still for a While," "News of the Weather," "Just Us," "Baldy Winds," and "The New Neighbors." As It Ought to Be. Spring 2021.
“The Churn," "Spring," and "Red Bird." Anti-Heroin Chic. Summer 2021.
“1 AM.” Active Muse. Winter 2021.
“The Motes Dance Forgetting.” Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Golden Street Car. December 2020.
“Croatoan,” “Mastodon,” “D.B. Cooper,” “Patton,” “Thoth,” “Yucca,” “Beetle,” “Route 66,” “Boneyard,” “Softening,” “Goodbye,” “Sloth,” Baba Yaga.” Cholla Needles. Summer 2020.
“The Motes Dance Forgetting.” Golden Street Car. Summer 2020.
“Grouse Calls,” “In Spring,” and “Grouse Call.” Red Shift. Fall 2019.
“Endless Sumer” and “Ontario, California.” Rabid Oak Review. Spring 2018.
“In the California State of Slippage” and “Kaweah Gap.” Trampset Literary Magazine. Spring 2018.
“Meditation on a Blackened Forest.” THAT Literary Magazine. Spring 2018.
“Find What You Will” and “Wolverton Creek.” The Wayfarer. Spring 2018.
“Your Story of Water," “Up on Whitney” and "Alta Peak." Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Spring 2018.
“On the Trail to Alta Peak.” pacificREVIEW’s Errant Mythologies Anthology. Spring 2018.
“All his Immutable Forevers and Mine too.” Sierra Nevada Review. Summer 2018.
“On the Banks of the Eel River.” Poetry City, USA. Spring 2018
“This Afternoon Hiking Up to Ranger Lake.” Tower Journal. Fall/Winter 2017
“A Haibun for Bees.” Literary Alchemy. Summer 2017.
“For the Deer” and “For Turkey Vultures.” Kyso Literary Journal. Fall 2017.
"Listening to Dave Brubeck’s 'Take Five' After Ear Surgery" and "Instructions for Swimming before the Rain." Synesthesia Anthology. Spring 2017.
“Up Near Alta Peak.” Shark Reef Magazine. Summer 2017.
“Crossing the High Sierra.” Bird Thumb. Summer 2017.
“Crossing the High Sierra.” DASH Literary Journal. Spring 2017.
“Putting in a Window.” Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poem. Spring 2017.
“The Novelty of Water.” The Broad River Review. Spring 2017.
“With Coltrane on the Great Western Divide.” Ghost Town. Winter 2016.
“Talent” and “Notes Taken at Crystal Lake, Now Dry, Angeles National Forest.” Heyday Magazine. Winter 2016.
“Not Even the Moon Was Out.” Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. Fall 2016.
“Instructions for Swimming before the Rain” and "Koi Pond, Norton Simon Museum of Art." Synesthesia. Spring 2016.
“Jobim’s Sacred Wave” and “Agenda.” Askew. Winter 2016.
“A Memory of Smoke.” The Redneck Review. Winter 2016.
“Silence.” Town Creek Poetry. December 2015.
“Houses Near the Gravel Pit, 1913, Paul Klee.” Colorado Boulevard. Fall 2015.
“Dizzy on Moro Rock,” “A Memory of Smoke,” and “The End of Glaciers.” Verse-Virtual. November 2015
“Your Story of Water.” Verse-Virtual. October 2015.
“Yellow Mountain,” “Outside the Nanjing Massacre Memorial,” and “A Culture of Kites.” Your One Phone Call. January 2016.
“Guttersoul,” “Slip Out Before Anyone Knows,” and “Holy Water, 1987.” The Lost Coast Review. January 2016.
“And then There Was Death.” Sacred Cow Magazine. January 2016.
“The Dream of Water.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2015.
“Women Ironing, Edgar Degas,” “The Synesthesia of Egrets,” and “Without Even a Glance Backward.” Cadence Collective, Year Two Anthology. Fall 2015
“Flying across the International Dateline,” “Crossing into China with John Coltrane,” and “John Coltrane Taxi-Rides with Me through Shanghai.” Drunk in a Midnight Choir. June 2015.
“Coyote Blood.” Honorable Mention for Gemini Literary Magazine Spring 2015 Poetry Open contest.
“In Shanghai, I Watch a Tibetan Man Sleep.” Lummox Magazine. Summer 2015.
"The Synethesia of Egrets" and "Without Even a Glance Back.” Cadence Collective. Spring 2015
“Los Angeles,” “A Blessing,” and “Icarus Lives.” Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Summer 2015
“The Little Dancer, Aged 14, Edgar Degas.” Gutters and Alleyways, Anthology. Fall 2014
“A Tragedy of Birds,” “Westminster Abbey, March 1991,” and “Poem to the Child Who Was Almost My Son.” Cadence Collective, Year One Anthology. Fall 2014.
“After Rush Hour.” Fall 2014. The Louisiana Review
“After Backpacking over Mt. Whitney.” Apeiron Review. Fall 2014.
“Your Story of Water.” Broad River Review. 2015.
“Saviour of the World, El Greco," "St. Joseph and the Christ Child, El Greco," and "Christ in Prayer, El Greco." East Jasmine Review. Summer 2014.
“Tuesday and You’re Feeling Green.” The Giant Book of Poetry. Fall 2013.
"Meditations on a Lightning Storm that Happened in 1894." JMWW. Fall 2013.
"Dave" and "Confirmation." The Mindful Word. Fall 2013
“Here and Now,” “Meditations on a Lightning Storm that Happened in 1894” and “Listening to Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’ after Ear Surgery.” Synesthesia. Fall 2013.
“The Green of Sunset,” “The Butterfly Effect,” and “Poem to the Child Who Was Almost My Son.” Cadence Collective Fall 2013.
“My Second Self.” Cease Cows. Fall, 2013.
“A Sestina about Fathers and Sons and Deserts and the Leonids Meteor Shower and How All Those Things Come Together to Show Us that Dreamers Like Me Absolutely Need Practical People Like My Father and I Try Not to Be Condescending as I Do It, but I Might Fail a Little.” Generationless. Summer 2013.
“Poem to the Child Whom I Almost Adopted,” “Thinking of Wilfred Owen,” “Apology to Madeline,” and “A Man Stepping into a River.” Serving House Journal. Spring 2013.
“The Green of Sunset.” Green Anthology, Silver Birch Press. Spring 2013.
“Your Favorite Jazz Radio” and “How I Felt.” Silver Anthology, Silver Birch Press. Winter 2012.
“North Hollywood Boulevard No. 3.” L. A. Exchange at the Studio for Southern California History. Fall 2012.
“Up in Northern California" and "On a Bridge above the Los Angeles River." A Few Lines Magazine. Fall 2012.
“Café London.” Bank Heavy Press’s Robo Book. Summer 2012.
“An Insomniac’s Sestina.” Pearl Magazine. Summer 2012.
“The Art of Merging.” Nerve Cowboy. Summer 2012.
“The Butterfly Effect.” A Few Lines Magazine. Summer 2012.
“AKA.” Home Planet News. Fall 2012.
“Ah, That the World Could Be L.A.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2012.
“To Sleep” and “At a Bus Stop.” Red Rock Review. Fall 2012.
“The Random Revolution” and “Here and Now.” Earthshine. Spring 2012.
“Breathing in Los Angeles.” Creepy Gnome. Spring 2012
“AKA” and “Building Los Angeles.” Seventh Quarry. Summer 2012.
“30 Poets, I Violinist, 1 Cameraman in Wales.” Seventh Quarry. January 2012.
“At Night.” Coffee House. Spring 2012
“Let’s Hope We Fit in,” “In the Courtyard,” “In the Late Afternoon on the Adirondack Chair, I Can Hear the Phone,” Conceit Magazine. Winter 2012
“The Imperial War Museum.” Poetry Cornwall. Spring 2012.
“God Save the Queen.” Askew. Fall 2011.
“The Wages of Cynicism” and “The Art of Merging.” In Somnis Veritas. Fall 2011.
“Odysseus Watches Achilles Mourn Patroclus” and “Achilles Appears in His New Armor before Odysseus’s Men.” Icon. Spring 2011.
“Los Angeles, June 22, 2007.” California Quarterly. Summer 2011.
“How I Felt.” Cloudbank. 2011.
“You’re Aces.” Snail Mail Review. 2011.
“Because I Need the Money.” Beatlick News. 2011.
“Flying too Low.” Rambunctious. 2011.
“Geriatrics.” Amarillo Bay. 2011.
“A Blessing.” Askew. Fall 2010.
“You Are.” Finalist for Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest. Fall 2010.
Featured Reader for World Arts Olympus Poetry Event. June 20, 2010.
“Pieter Lastman’s Odysseus and Nausicaa.” Mobius, the Poetry Magazine. November 2010.
Poetry Café. May 26, 2010, 2pm. Discussion of my poetry on KPFK 90.7 in Los Angeles.
“Let’s Hope We Fit In.” Icon. Spring 2010.
Featured poet of three readings for the League of Canadian Poets. Spring, 2010.
“Queen Arete Remembers Odysseus” and “At the End of the Day.” New Laurel Review. Summer 2010.
“How to Remember.” Iodine Poetry Journal. Spring 2010.
“The Art of Falling” and “The Art of Merging.” Borderlines. Summer 2010.
“There’d better be someone dead up there,” “L.A. Is Burning Again,” and “With his top down and stopped in traffic on the freeway.” Atlantic Pacific Press. Spring 2010.
“And Why Not Just Be a Lotus Eater, Hart.” Conceit Magazine. July 2010.
“The Parable of the Bear-Man.” Conceit Magazine. August 2010.
“The Parable of the Fisherman.” Amulet. May 2010.
“Edgar Degas’s Waiting.” The Interpreter’s House. May 2009.
“Eduoard Manet’s Still Life with Fish and Shrimp.” Pulsar Poetry Magazine. September 2008.
“When I Call.” National Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. September 25, 2008.
“Upland.” Purple Patch. November 2008.
“Ah, That the World Could Be L.A.” Iota. Spring 2008.
“Mojave.” Xavier Review. Spring 2008.
“Hans Holbein’s Henry VII.” The Interpreter’s House. Spring 2008.
“Papa in Space.” Eclipse. Spring 2008.
“Because Even the Bloom of Youth Has Left Me,” “On the Counter In My Kitchen,” and “John Irving’s The Imaginary Girlfriend.” Carillon Magazine. Spring 2008.
“The Desert Comes in Waves” and “Tuesday Yellow.” Awen. October 2008.
“John Singer Sargent’s Lady Agnew of Locknow.” Curlew. December 2007.
“In the Late Afternoon.” Brittle Star. Winter 2007.
“Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow 1836" and “Lyonel Feininger’s Street near the Palace.” Envoi 2007.
“Jacob Moore’s The Eruption of Vesuvius.” The Coffee House. Spring 2008.
“Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 1752.” Nerve Cowboy. Fall 2007.
“Home Tectonics” and “A Cold Morning in November.” Earthshine. November 2007.
“On the 10 Freeway, I Contemplate my Fellow Man.” Nebo. Summer 2007.
“Watch Out” and “We Turn out the Lights.” Freefall. Spring 2007.
“Walking Along the Ridge.” Tears in the Fence. Summer 2007.
“A Man without” Peace and Freedom. Summer 2006.
Featured poet of three readings for the League of Canadian Poets. April 21, 2006 - April 23, 2006.
Nomination for Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses 2006.
“We Turn out the Lights” and “Watch Out.” Freefall. Spring of 2006.
“Putting in a Window” National Public Radio’s Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. November 15, 2005.
“Just Before the Fire.” Freefall. Fall 2005.
“Los Angeles.” Freefall. Summer 2005.
“Putting in a Window.” Honorable Mention in the El Dorado Writers’ Guild 2003 Contest.
“Ave Maria.” Iodine Poetry Journal. Fall 2004.
“Becoming the Little Flower” and “The Tao of Poverty.” Acorn. Fall 2003.
“Firewood” and “The First Signs of Spring” Weyfarers. Fall 2003.
“Putting in a Window.” The Wandering Dog. Fall 2003.
"Carpentry the Easy Way." Acorn. Fall 2002.
"Firewood." Lummox. Fall 2002.
Sierra Nevada. Honorable mention in Byline Magazine's chapbook competition. April 2002.
"Putting in a Window" and "The First Signs of Spring." First and second place in Byline Magazine's New Talent Poetry Award. April 2002.
"Morning Rituals." Tucumcari Literary Review. February 2002.
“150 Degrees of Separation,” “My Belly is the Adriatic,” “To all Men who Stop Making Love When They Imagine Their Mothers,” “How I Felt,” and “You’re Aces.” The Chiron Review. Fall 2001.
“The Cereal Ritual.” Deeply Shallow. Spring 2000.
“When I Call.” Chiron Review. Summer 2000.
"Joe-Cat." The J-Man Times. Winter 1999.
"Reverse Psychology." Bender Magazine. Spring 1999.
"On the Civil War Re-enactment Battle Field.” Minds in Motion. December 1998.
"Morning Rituals." Pearl Magazine. Fall 1998.
"Elephants." In Search of Milieu. April 1998.
"Elephants." Poem at Odyssey Reading. Long Beach, California. April 1998.
Public Appearances, Nonfiction Literary Criticism, and Conference Presentations
“Peter Johnson’s White the Undertaker Sleeps. MacQueen’s Quinterly. Summer 2023.
“An Interview with Gretchen Primack.” Your Impossible Voice. Summer 2023.
“The Danger of Isolation.” The Reckon Review. Winter 2023.
“Chella Courington’s Adele and Tom: The Portrait of a Marriage.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Winter 2023.
“Waltzing with the Rage Monster.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Winter 2023.
“Geoffrey Philp on the Continuing Lessons of the Holocaust.” MacQueen’s Quinterly. Winter 2023.
“Sunset Meditation.” Dewdrop. Fall 2021.
“Walking through Bats” and “Moth Nocturn.” Cholla Needles. Fall 2021.
“Rodents of the Forest.” Worthing Flash. Summer 2021.
“An Interview with Michael Torres.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2021.
“Matthew Woodman’s This Is Not Your Moon.” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2021.
“Conney Williams’s The Distance of Observation.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2021.
“Karen Jones’s When It’s Called Not Making Love.” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2021.
“Marshall Deerfield’s Travel by Haiku Volume 6-10: Far out on the Road with Friends” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2021.
“Romaine Washington’s Purgatory Has an Address” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2021.
“Ranney Campbell’s Pimp.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Aimee Medina Carr’s River of Love.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Beth Ruscio’s Speaking Parts.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2021.
“Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2021.
“David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero.” Cultural Weekly. Winter 2021.
“Dennis Callaci’s Five Ghost Stories.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021
“Michael Torres’s An Incomplete List of Names.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Obit by Victoria Chang. Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Kendall Johnson’s Chaos and Ash.” Tears in the Fence. Winter 2021.
“Kareem Tayyar and the Complexities of Joy.” Cultural Weekly. Winter 2021.
“Brian Sonia-Wallace’s The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2020.
“Jason Irwin’s The History of Our Vagrancies.” Cultural Weekly. Spring 2020.
“Jeanette Powers’s Dandelion Riot.” Cultural Weekly. Summer 2020.
“Matthey Murrey’s Bulletproof.” Cultural Weekly. Summer 2020.
“Open the Fist by Elya Braden.” Cultural Weekly. Summer 2020.
“Prime Meridian by Connie Post.” Cultural Weekly. Fall 2020.
“Storylandia Issue 32, J. H. Malone’s Drunk on Time.” Cultural Weekly. Fall 2020.
“Tricks of Light by Thaddeus Rutkowski.” Cultural Weekly. Fall 2020.
“Mowing Leaves of Grass by Matt Sedillo.” The Whale Road Review. Winter 2021.
“Darwin's Garden by Lee Rossi.” Cultural Weekly. Winter 2019.
“Spaghetti and Meatballs: Poems for Hot Organs by Mendes Biondo.” Cultural Weekly. Winter 2019.
“The Perpetual Motion Machine by Brittany Ackerman.” Cultural Weekly. Winter 2019.
“An Interview with Kareem Tayyar.” The Chiron Review. Summer 2019.
Featured Reader and Lecturer. Bath Flash Fiction Festival. Summer 2018.
“A Review of Iris Graville’s Hiking Naked.” Western Friend. Spring 2018.
“An Interview with Iris Graville.” Western Friend. Spring 2018.
“Waking with Ghosts.” Parks and Points. Spring 2018.
“Waking with Ghosts.” Permanent Vacation II. Summer 2018.
“An Interview with Inland Empire Writers.” Ghost Town Literary Review. Spring 2018.
“The Catkins Burst on their Own.” Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time. Summer 2017.
“A Look at Catholicism in the Work of Brian Doyle and Gerald Locklin.” The Los Angeles Review. Summer 2017.
“An Interview with Yishun Lai.” The Los Angeles Review. Summer 2017.
“An Interview with Steven T. Seagle and Tony Barnstone.” The Los Angeles Review. Summer 2017.
“Hitchhiking with the Devil.” The Los Angeles Review. Summer 2017.
“An Interview with Alexis Rhone Fancher.” IthicaLit. Spring 2017
“An Interview with Judy Kronenfeld.” Ghost Town Literary Review. Spring 2017
Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour. Interview about my new anthology on KPFK 90.7 March 30 at 8pm.
“Pomona Arts Colony.” Curating Los Angeles. Spring 2021.
“An Interview with Marsha de la O.” Tears in the Fence. Spring 2016.
“An Interview with Lori Howe.” Alebrijes. Spring 2016
“The Toddler.” Rind Literary Magazine. Spring 2015.
Review of Grant Hier’s Untended Garden. East Jasmine Review, August 2015.
Featured Reader. NYU Shanghai. February 2015
Guest on KPFK’s Poet’s Corner in a memorial discussion of Maya Angelou’s work and life. August 2014.
Featured Reader. Read On Till Morning. August 2014
Taught Poetry and Non-Fiction classes. Wild About Books Conference. Clovis, March 2014.
Featured Reader. Ugly Mug Poetry Reading. March 2014
Featured Reader. Cadence Collective. March 2014
Featured Reader. Moonday Poetry Reading. February 2014
“Graham Greene Saved Me That Year.” Sassafras. Fall 2013
“Making Every Word Count – Poetry Techniques for Fiction Writers.” 2013 California Crime Writers Conference. June 23, 2013.
A Novel Live. Internet radio interview with me about my work. October 7, 2012.
“What Writing Sonnets Taught Me about Writing Mysteries.” Novel Spaces. November 2012.
“What Being a Fiction Editor Taught Me about Writing Fiction: Part Two.” Writers’ Tricks of the Trade. September 2012.
“What Being a Fiction Editor Taught Me about Writing Fiction: Part One.” Writers’ Tricks of the Trade. August 2012.
Featured Reader. Riverside Community College. May 2012.
“Creating and Developing a Comprehensive Creative Writing Program on a Budget.” Panel chair and presenter for 2012 AWP conference in Chicago.
Interview about my work. Writer Ninja Podcast Episode Five, “The Gift of Consent.” December 31, 2011.
“Death Is Not the Worst Thing.” Review for Tears in the Fence 53. Spring 2012.
Featured Reader. Whittier College. October, 2011.
Featured Reader. After the Carnival. August, 2011.
Featured Reader. The Hump. August, 2011.
Featured Reader. Tebot Bach. July 29, 2011.
Featured Reader. The International Poetry Festival, Swansea, Wales. June 2011.
“Notes from Los Angeles: The Permanent Exile.” Review for Tears in the Fence 52. Fall 2011.
Reading for Lummis Day. Lummis House, Los Angeles, CA. June 6, 2010.
“Seven Minute Lecture.” Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA. May 22, 2010.
“Wish They All Could Be California Writers.” Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction. Spring 2010.
“The Case of the Gonzo Critics.” Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction. Spring 2010.
Keynote Speaker in Westport, Ontario, Canada for Canada’s National Poetry Month. April 1, 2010.
"An Interview with Tony Barnstone." The Chiron Review. Winter 2009.
Reading with Bruce Williams and John Harris. Beyond Baroque. October 17, 2008.
“Poetry, Therapy, God, and the West: An Interview with Bruce Williams.” The O’Brien Literary Speculator. Winter 2007.
“Bukowski Wouldn’t Have Liked Me.” The Bukowski Review. Spring 2004.
"Using Gerald Locklin's Fiction in the Classroom." Popular Culture Association's Conference -- Gerald Locklin Panel #1. April 2003.
Chair of Gerald Locklin Panel #2. Popular Culture Association's Conference. April 2003.
"Wish They All Could Be California Writers" Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Association. Fall 2002.
"Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood: A Refiguring of the New Left" The Bukowski Review. Fall 2002.
"The Anthropomorphic Armadillo" Notes on Contemporary Literature. 2002.
“The Shape of Los Angeles and the Shaping of Los Angeles Cinema and Literature” at Western Literature Association’s 2000 Conference. October 2000. Presentation of my essay.
Panel Member and Reader at the American Literary Association’s Gerald Locklin Panel, May 26, 2000.
"Cracking Bukowski's Code in Pulp" Notes on Contemporary Literature. February 2000.
"Gerald Locklin's Influence on Bukowski's Pulp" Notes on Contemporary Literature 1999.
"A Literary Argument" Minas Tirith Evening Star. 1999.
"Gift Giving in Steinbeck's Novels and Short Fiction" at California State University, Fullerton Graduate Conference. December 1997. Presentation of my article.