THE RIGHT HAND

READ | Two poems ▪︎ Image

READ | Five poems ▪︎ The Amsterdam Review

READ | Three poems ▪︎ Plume

These poems are taken from a longer sequence titled The Right Hand, which was inspired by acupuncture, bodywork, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture of The Ecstasy of St. Teresa in Rome. The Right Hand was a recent finalist for the National Poetry Series.

GHOSTS AND THE OVERPLUS

READ | “On Ghosts and the Overplus” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

READ | “On Nonconformists and Strange Gravity” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

VIDEO | Reading at University of Illinois at Chicago’s “SparkTalks” on April 3, 2024

STARDUST MEDIA

READ | “Flirt” ▪︎ The Yale Review

READ | “The Staircase” ▪︎ The Yale Review

READ | “Origins of the Collection” and “Voice Road” ▪︎ Terrain.org

READ | “Toll” ▪︎ The Atlantic

READ | “But the Avant-Garde” ▪︎ Plume

READ | “With a Song” ▪︎ Poetry Daily

PERCEPTION

VIDEO | Excerpts from Perception

READ | “Three Blue Butterflies” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

READ | “[Something I learned about agape when I was young]” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

READ | Three poems ▪︎ Plume

GRAINS OF THE VOICE

READ | “Inflection” ▪︎ The Atlantic

READ | “Material” ▪︎ The Atlantic

READ | “As Tears” ▪︎ Verse Daily

RESTORATION

READ | Christina Pugh’s “Sebald’s Dream Props,” from Restoration, at Poetry Northwest, along with her discussion of the poem

READ | “Twenty-Third” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

READ | “Retro” ▪︎ Poetry Foundation

READ | “Rue Family” ▪︎ The Atlantic

ROTARY

READ | “Rotary” ▪︎ Illinois Poet Laureate

READ | “Savior” ▪︎ Illinois Poet Laureate

READ | “Apostrophe” ▪︎ Verse Daily