Poetry & Classes
If you enjoy the poems below, you may enjoy my poetry books: Second Sight (Kelsay Books, 2021), and Splitting the Soil, (Finishing Line Press, 2014).
Selected Poems & Essays
Feels Blind Literary, "Stages" (essay)​​
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Split Rock Review, "Rumex acetosella"
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Black Moon Magazine, "Ode to Wasabi"​
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The Museum of Americana, "Appalachian Ghazal", "Appalachian Superstitions as Told to the Poet"
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Razor Literary Magazine, "Questionnaire for Indeterminate Purposes"
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Town Creek, "Why You Should Go Outside at 4:40 am in November"
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*82 Review, "Back Sight", "The Shape of Love", "I have never understood"
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NANO Fiction, "Ben Affleck is My Lover"
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Coal Hill Review, "Witness"
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STILL, "Citrullus lanatus," "Citrus sinensis," "Houstonia
caerulea," "Oxydendrum arborteum"
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​Fried Chicken & Coffee, "Greasy Creek," "Vonda"
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Literal Latte, "Igneous or 'of fire'"
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Classes
August 23, 2025, Poetry class, Olive's Porch, Murphy, NC
June 22-28, 2025, Creative Writing Across the Genres, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC
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Feb 22, 2025, James Agee Conference, Pellissippi State, Strawberry Plains Campus, Knoxville, TN. Free to the public! Register here.
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August 25-30, 2024, Creative Writing Across the Genres, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
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April 6, 2024, Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference, Blue Ridge, GA
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March 11, 2023, Poetry Workshop, Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation, Vero Beach, FL
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July 4-8, 2022, Fiction Writing, John C. Campbell Folk School
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May 8-14, 2022 — Creative Writing across the Genres, John C. Campbell Folk School
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February 5, 2022 — Poetry Workshop, Mildred Haun Conference, Walters State Community College
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May 2021 — Poetry Intensive, John C. Campbell Folk School (week long session)
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February 2021 — Creative Non Fiction Workshop, Mildred Haun Conference, Walters State Community College
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