Here is a list of publications where my poems, stories, and essays have appeared. Please note that this is a partial and growing list. 


FICTION

Apt (Aforementioned Productions) - "The Toybox"

Drunk Monkeys* - "Long Road to Luckenbach," "The Philanthropist", "I'm Not Doing Coke Off That Dog's Back"

Full of Crow - "Desperate Ain't Lonely"

Indigent Press - "Two Kings"

Ink In Thirds - "Thompson Hill"

Kleft Jaw - "$10,000"

Lonesome October Lit - “Widow’s Watch,” “Jimmy’s Going Places”

Nixes Mate Review - “Cold Beer/Cheap Rooms”

Pulp Modern - "The Nature of the Game"

Red Fez - “The Poison & The Pain”

South Broadway Ghost Society - “Hopper House”

Unknown Press / "Too Much" Anthology - "The Rube" 

Up the Staircase Quarterly - "The Black Eye"


NON-FICTION

American Artist magazine - Feature articles on historical art movements and interviews with contemporary artists appeared in AA magazine, DrawingWatercolor, and Studios from early 2011 to late 2012.

Artist Daily - blog posts about art news and artist interviews, including one about artist Greg Manchess.

The Battered Suitcase - "Platform First, Book Second"

The Blue Mountain Review - A series of columns that focus on poetic inspiration, advice on writing poetry, and advice on becoming a more connected member of the poetry community.  

Cafeína Literária - A Brazilian literary website where some of my writing advice articles have also appeared as translated re-prints.

Drunk Monkeys - 100 Word Film Reviews, focusing on film noir and neo-noir

Writer's Digest - Dozens of my essays, interviews, and writing advice articles appear at the Writer's Digest blog There Are No Rules.

 

POETRY

3:AM Magazine - "Layer of Rain," "Gideon Was Here"

The Aurorean - "Ties," "Everything and the Hourglass," "Something Borrowed, Something Blue," "The Best Part" (also selected for their Best of the First 15 Years Anthology)

Bare Hands Poetry - "Ruby Hope of You"

The Battered Suitcase (Vagabondage Press) - "Punching Bag"

The Bicycle Review - "Seasick on 46th" (poem of the week)

Black Coffee Press - “Photo Booth”

Black Poppy Review - “Creatures Who Survived”

Black Words On White Paper - "Where the Sun Don't Shine"

The Blue Hour - "Living with Songbirds," “Badlands,” “Sunday May”

Blue Lake Review - "Paper Pigeon"

Blue Lotus Review - "The Old Man and the See"

The Blue Mountain Review - "How to Read the Braille of Your Heartstrings," "Having Come Down the Mountain," "dawn and the empty bottle of wine"

Boned - "Going Ghost," "Dry Tide"

Book of Matches - “Saint Michael,” “Downtown,” “Concession”

Breadcrumb Scabs - "Send Yourself to Me"

Cajun Mutt Press - “Death & Co.,” “Johnny ‘89”

Calliope Nerve - "String-and-Can Telephone," "Chained Like Beasts to the Jungle," "Say Chico, Got a Light?"

Capital Region Poets Magazine - "Mind the Gap"

Carcinogenic Poetry  - "Dust Motes of the Universe," "Men," "Sleep Tight," "Kentucky Gentleman," "The Owls," "Norway," "Whiffs of Sulfur," "Men of Karma"

Carnival - "Wailing the Lights Fantastic," "The Chalet by the River"

Change Seven Magazine - "Death Row Escape," "It's Only Temporary," "The Good Fresh Kind"

Chiron Review - “Hand Me Downs”

Citizens for Decent Literature - "End-Times"

Clockwise Cat - "Needless Markups," "Slow Retreat Home," "Playing God in the Only Place Left on Earth," "Yellow Birds," "They Come in the Night" 

Covert Poetics - "Hell's Half-Acre"

Dark Party Review - "My Intern"

Day Job Journal - “Ode to Madison Avenue at 6:15 p.m.” and “Topo-Chico”

decomP - "Rewriting Our Novel, Word by Word"

decompression  - "Cue the Music," "Samantha," "Rhode Island," "Much Less," "Sub Rosa," "Witness"

drown in my own fears  - "Dash Lights and Static," "Against the Skin," "Neither Mine, Neither Yours," "The Two Loves of Lazarus," "Twine of Beaten Love"

Drunk Monkeys - "Hunger"

Dumpster Fire Press - “Fedora,” “A Case of the Mondays,” “Transience,” “Driver Dave” (all appeared in their Voices from the Fire series)

Durable Goods - "The Pageant" (translated into French)

Every Day Poets - "Warm Silk"

Eviscerator Heaven - "A Debt Paid," "Dead Walk," "Hollow Out Their Bones"

Five 2 One - "Nights Don't Die"

Foliate Oak Literary Magazine - "Redemption on Track 34," "Speed Dating," "The Long County," "Wilting Flowers at Night," "Stop Calling Me After Midnight," “My Ex’s Father”

Front Porch Review - "The Elm at Rhoederick Farm," "Even the Immortals Know"

Full of Crow - "Panhandle Nocturne"

The Gap-Toothed Madness - "San Jacinto Motor Inn, 11:27 a.m."

Gasconade Review - “Strange Gods of the Prairie,” “A Dying Orchid on Fire,” “Two Chairs on the Front Patio”

Ghost City Review - “Hidden by the Smell of Flowers”

Glass: A Journal of Poetry - "Slainte"

Gloom Cupboard - "Astral Graveyard Loneliness," "Past, Present, Yet to Come"

Gutter Eloquence Magazine (Print and Online) * - "That Singular Brand," "Watching Manchester," "Dead Fish Wallets," "Box Street Blues," "Parlance Impass," "Elephant Bones," "The Pitter-Patter of Bone White Feet," "Shakedown Blues," "War on Parade," "Deaf & Dying,"" Some Evil," "Twins," "Mecca," "On Waking in Queens," "Tinker Toys & Poison," "Never Worse Off Alone," "I Will Hang Up When I Do"

Haggard & Halloo  - "Our Foreman at Blanco Tavern," "Goodbye 57th Street"

Haunted Waters Press - “Widow’s Watch”

Heroin Love Songs  - "A Stain in the Dirt," "Dutch"

H.O.D. (A Handful of Dust)  - "Letters," "Mack and the Boys"

The Homestead Review - "The Comforts of History"

Idiom Magazine - "Waiting for the Artist to Arrive," "No Sunday Delivery"

Jones AV  - "Burial," "A Star is Stillborn," "Waxing & Waning," "Rhode Island Love Affair"

Kleft Jaw  - "Thursday at the Dirty Fox," "Alone With the Crops," "Three Bookmarks," "Last Appointment of the Day," "Assurance," "Lo Cool, 69 Degrees"

Live Nude Poems - “Affliction”

Lonesome October Lit - "Prayers from Dunwich," "The Incident at Choke Cherry Farm" 

Love Notes (Vagabondage Press) - "No First Kiss"

Mantle - “Fugue”

Misfit Magazine - “Cherry Dip”

Marble Poetry - “Postcard”

Nixes Mate Review - “Texas Pacific,” “Loiter,” “Baily’s Hardware”

Open Skies Quarterly (Dreamscape anthology) - “The Ghosts of Flat Tires and Dead Flowers,” “The Cold Northern Edge of Your Rope”

Picaroon Poetry - "The Old Note Book," "Feral Kingdom," "The Mice Have Abandoned The Woodpile"

Pine Hills Review - "How to Watch John Ashbery Read Poetry," “Umbra” 

Plainsongs - "All I Know of Karma"

Plain Spoke - "Lay of the Land"

Poetry Salzburg Review - "Four Corner Casuals"

Psychic Meatloaf - "Heart-Shaped Rocks"

Punch Drunk Press - "We'll Take a Trip to See," "West Texas Skyway"

Red Fez Publications * - "Single Malt Scotch," "Jazz is Dead," "Desolation 2 a.m.," "Devonshire Street," "Dust on the Fly," "N-Train Hymnal," "The Carnival," "Help me Drown the Moonlight," "Where Paupers Sleep Like Kings," "Red Flag," "No Harvest", "Nothing Else and You" 

Redshift (Vol. 4): “Derelict”

Reed Magazine - "Until We Meet Again"

Revolution John - "Poetry Boneyard"

Riverbabble  - "I'll Drink You Down at Dawn," "Burning in the Freeze"

Roadside Raven Review - “Wednesday Sunset South Main Ave.” and “May the Moon Shine On”

Rufous City Review - "The Right Arm"

Rye Whiskey Review - “You Don’t Have to Go Home But You Can’t Stay Here,” “Riverwalk”

San Antonio Review - “Sanctuary”

San Pedro River Review * - “The Loathful Part of Town," "View the Idle Cat," "Caramelized Moonlight," "East Cavallos Street," “A Sunday Like This,” “Your Own Personal Road Map,” “Dandelions in the Dark,” “Both Ways Home,” “Village Video,” “Marathon,” “The Furnace of Your Heart” 

See Spot Run - "Midtown Tapestry," "The Only Eye of the Stray Dog"

Side of Grits - "Maybe a Bird Will Sing" 

Slipstream - "Hung Jury"

Stepping Stones Magazine - "Faithless"

Tabula Rasa Review - “Acre”

The Stray Branch - "You can't flush some things away," "These could be the good old days"

Thick With Conviction  - "Room 278," "The Young of Stray Dogs," "Death & Distance," "One Last Thing to Do," "You May Have Noticed," "Dirty Fingernails," "Echo and Waltz," "A Single Magic," "Let's Agree to Never Dream Again," "Midnight Postage," "Night Driving," "Goodnight, Sweet Bird," "Juleps," "Want It Now Like Never," My Gratitude,” “Hotmail”   

Tipton Poetry Journal - "Blue Cat," "Darwin is Dead, Too"

The Toronto Quarterly Review - "Fresher Diamonds"

Trailer Park Quarterly - "Roll in the Hay," "We The Faithful," “Unordered List of Things That Remain”

Trampoline - “Pioneer”

Turbulence - "Secrets"

Underground Voices  - "The Captain," "The Rotting Stage," "Another Op Goes Down," "A Walk to the River at Night"

Unshod Quills  - "Where we are and where we might go," "When Thunder Follows the Light," "Help Me Drown the Moonlight," "You Love to Count the Rings," "Reflections," "12 Gauges of Remorse"

Up The Staircase  - "The Best Way to Catch a Dagger...," "Runaround Sue," "Rubberneck," "Exposed Brick in Candlelight," "Under the Bridge," “Bereave” 

Viva Brevis Press - “Deluge”

Void Magazine - "November"

vox poetica * - "Final Fireflies," "Silver Owls," "Red Tulip," "The Reservoir," “Things We Don’t Yet Possess” 

Ward 6 Review - "First Page of a Recent Book"

The Westchester Review - “Grunewald”

WineDrunk Sidewalk - "The Carson Effect", "The Young May Love Without Fear," "Rusted Ghosts of Sidewalk Town," "Last Cigarette," “Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You,” “The Lights of Town,” “Feast,” “Soft White Infinity,” “Lo Cool, 69 Degrees”

Yellow Chair Review - "Slaves of Some Strange God"

Zygote In My Coffee  - "The Greatest Star of All," "The Joke's On Us," "Abe Lincoln, Abe Lincoln"