How often I meet you here
above the trees and houses
nested in sleep, the edges
of you ringed, luminescent
as a dropped nickel in a pool
of crude oil.
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POETRY
2019
“In Poland, Once” – Rivet Journal
“Heaven” – Loch Raven Review
“Making a Jack-O-Lantern” & “Blood Stiletto” – Vamp Cat Magazine
“What Happened at the Baptism” – Matador Review
“Epiphanies” – Verse-Virtual
“Requiem for an Ocean Burial” – Palette Poetry (this poem has been nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by the anthology What Remains: The Many Ways We Say Goodbye.)
“Caravaggio Was Our Matchmaker” – Verse-Virtual
“Runaway” – Baltimore Review
“Still Life with City” – Verse-Virtual
“On Maujer St.” – Flatbush Review
“The Skaters” – Innisfree Poetry Journal
“Dear Cuck” – Rattle
“New Year’s Eve” – Verse-Virtual
2018
“A User’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals” – Verse-Virtual
“Cat Person” – The Road Not Taken – A Journal of Formal Poetry
“Starman” – Verse-Virtual
“Breaking” – Poets Reading the News
“Somebody Suggested the World Needed More Vampire Poems, So I Wrote One” – Verse-Virtual
“Submission Guidelines” – Gravel
“To the Night Sky”, “Luftmensch” & “To Ink” – Verse-Virtual
“Pawn’s Game” & “Blue Ridge Service Station” – Tuck Magazine
“National Day of Atonement” – Writers Resist
“To the Horned Moon” – Verse-Virtual
“Space Station Crew Sees Lots of Clouds” – Ekphrastic Review
“Worth It” – Rattle ‘Poets Respond’
“The King Is Dead” – Poets Reading the News
2017
“Morpheus in West Virginia” – Poets Reading the News
2011
“Samuel Menashe Reads at the Harvard Club (pdf)” – Italian Americana
2009
“Death of an Artist” & On My Great Grandfather’s 131st Birthday” (pdf) – Poetry Salzburg Review
Poems of Mario dell’Arco & Translating Mario dell’Arco – Journal of Italian Translation (These are, to my knowledge, the only translations available in English of this great Italian poet.)
2008
“The Muhammadiad” – The New Yorker
“Seagulls” , “Poets” & “Memorandum” – Battered Suitcase
2007
“Time Traveler” – Big City Lit
2002
“Ninotchka” – Pivot
“Thunder” – Pivot
2000
“Genesis” – Greetings
