Publications

BOOKS

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Chapbooks

SHORT FICTION IN PERIODICALS

  • “Manna,” Bellevue Literary Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Fall 2010: 84-87.
  • “Arctic Circle,” Staccato, no. 18, Spring 2010.
  • “Another Sunless Winter Day at the Top of the World,” Staccato, no. 19, Spring 2010.
  • “Ruin,” Yalobusha Review, vol. 13, 2008: 92-99.
  • “Hope, Faith, and Love,” THE2NDHAND, September 2007.
  • “Strange Bedfellows” and “Resident,” Quarter After Eight, vol. 11/12, Fall 2005: 28-29.
  • “Tiresias the Seer,” New Orleans Review, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2005: 138-157.
  • “Blackface,” Indiana Review, vol. 26, no. 2, Winter 2004: 38.
  • “Rumination,” Willow Springs, no. 54, Summer 2004: 83-93.
  • “Yoi, Hajime,” Permafrost, vol. 24, Fall 2002: 7-12.
  • “Rooster,” Quarterly West, no. 47, Autumn/Winter 1998-1999: 8.

SELECTED POETRY IN PERIODICALS

  • [The story of his life: "...it was invariable then that he would know just enough to get himself hanged."], DIAGRAM, (forthcoming).
  • [The story of his life: "...Angel said Father I've married the Falconer...], DIAGRAM, (forthcoming).
  • [The story of his life: "...Angel said Father I've married the Wolfman...], DIAGRAM, (forthcoming).
  • “The New Religion,” reprinted by Verse Daily, December 13, 2012.
  • [The story of his life: "...he read figure as fugue—"], Cavalier Literary Couture, July 18, 2011.
  • “Muse: Nikita Khrushchev,” 491 Magazine, issue 3, January 2011: 2.
  • “The Inciting Incident,” reprinted by Verse Daily, September 25, 2010.
  • “An Aubade for the African Queen and Its Big Bang,” Sliver of Stone, issue 1, August 2010.
  • “Matrushka,” Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, no. 5, Spring 2010.
  • “In Order to Form a More Perfect Union,” Copper Nickel, vol. 13, January 2010: 186-188.
  • “Why I Love a City,” International Poetry Review, Spring 2009: 108-112.
  • “Curse #1: The Accursed Takes the Form of a Cat in the Cold,” Birmingham Arts Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 2008: 18.
  • “Curse #9: The Accursed Spied from 40,000 Feet” and “Curse #13: The Curse That Is Not a Curse,”  Tusculum Review, vol. 4, 2008: 141-142.
  • “Upon the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hank Aaron Surpassing Babe Ruth as All-Time Homerun King,” Birmingham Weekly, 2007 Poetry Issue, April 26 – May 3, Vol. 10, issue 37: 9.
  • “Upon Charley’s Marriage to a Girl from Idaho” and “Upon the Birth of Mike’s Daughter, Some Unsolicited Advice Regarding Love and Other Such Vagaries,”  Harpur Palate, Winter 2006: 48-51.
  • “A Poem in Which I Grow Old with the Woman of My Dreams,” Ascent, Spring 2004: 103-104.
  • “[She drinks celery soup…],” Oxford Magazine, vol. 16, 2002: 96.
  • “11,” DIAGRAM 2.3, Summer 2002.
  • “Make Believe Maestro,” Colorado Review, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2002: 147-151.
  • “Very Like a Whale,” Sycamore Review, Fall/Winter 2002: 29.
  • “7,” “9,” and “17,”DIAGRAM 1.5, Fall 2001.
  • “Bluebirds,” Third Coast, Spring 2000: 11.
  • “Lullaby” and “Ground,” Whirligig, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2000: 15-17.

Poetry in Anthologies

  • Slash Pine Anthology 2011, Patti White & Lucas Southworth, eds. Tuscaloosa, AL: Slash Pine Press, 2011. “Matrushka,” 9.
  • Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry, Sue Brannan Walker & J. William Chambers, eds. Mobile, AL: Negative Capability Press, 2007. “The World Peace Poem,” 7-8.
  • (Some from) DIAGRAM, Ander Monson, editor. Washington, D.C.: Del Sol Press, 2003. “7,” “9,” “11,” and “17,” 12-13.

Poetry Broadside

  • “Elegy for the Boy Sent to Live Among the Fishes,” New Michigan Press, April 20, 2001.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

  • “A Timeless Tale Turns Fifty: To Kill a Mockingbird, Celebrating a Lasting Legacy,” Portico, April 2010: 42-47.
  • “Jason LaBresh: Tider Down Under,” Alabama Alumni Magazine, vol. 82, no. 4, Sept. 2002: 28-29.
  • “Changing the ‘Heart of Darkness’: Sheppard and Lapsley in the Congo,” Alabama Heritage, no. 63, Winter 2002: 28-37.
  • “Demopolis, City of the People,” with Stuart Flynn, Alabama Heritage, no. 59, Winter 2000: 16-25.
  • “Daniel Cram’s Mexican War Sketches,” with John McCall, Alabama Heritage, no. 56, Spring 2000: 38-42.

BOOK REVIEW

  • Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (poems by Maurice Manning), New Orleans Review, vol. 27, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2001.

INTERVIEWS

Wherein I Interviewed Somebody Else

  • Interview with poet Bob Perelman, Sunday Magazine, WUAL 91.5 (Alabama Public Radio), May 2, 1999.

Wherein Somebody Else Interviewed Me

Wherein I Interviewed Myself

FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

  • “Communion” (stories)
  • “John the Revelator” (screenplay)
  • “This is the story of his life: — ” (prose poems)

INTERNET PRESENCE (SO-CALLED)