Recent Poems:

What Is Left Behind ✶ Advice from a Goldfinch — Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds, forthcoming
Today, I Am Not Kind Because I Love Love — One Art, forthcoming
How Not to Be a Buzzkill at Holiday Gatherings ✶ A Fact about Trees ✶ Grief in December — seedfall, forthcoming
Hallowed — Poets Reading the News, 2024
It’s Going to Be Okay — One Art, 2024
The Traditional 20th Anniversary Gift Is China — Gramercy Review, 2024
Because Nothing Says Sorry About Your Hopelessness Like Chicken Enchiladas — Editor’s Choice Award, Sheila-Na-Gig, 2024
Poem in Which the Limits of a Gift Are Identified ✶ Tahoma Doesn’t Love Us ✶ +0.01 — Voices of Tacoma, 2024
She Wants to Live ✶ In Which I Show Myself Some Mercy — One Art, 2024
The New Year Makes a Request — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2024
Ode to My Inner Ear — Crab Creek Review, 2023
What It’s Like to Consider Whose Country It Was First ✶ Ode to an Invasive Species ✶ On the First Day of School — One Art, 2023
Every Poem I Didn’t Write — Desert Rat Poetry Prize Winner, 2023
Supermoon — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2023
Decolonize the Stars — New York Quarterly, 2023
You’re from Nowhere — Common Ground Review Poetry Contest Winner, 2023
Elegy for a Cat — Gyroscope Review, 2023
After a Massacre — Letter Review, 2023
Self-Portrait as Coriander Seed — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2023
Synonyms for Silence — Pleiades, 2023
All Souls — River Heron Review, 2023
Poem for My Inner Warrior — San Diego Poetry Annual, 2023
The End of Everything — North American Review, 2023
On Our 18th Wedding Anniversary, I Write an Ode to Lichen — upstreet, 2023
Heirloom — MER, 2023
Dog — the tiny journal, 2023
When My Husband Asks What He Can Do to Convince Me He Loves Me, I Say ✶ When They Say All Is Lost — New Ohio Review, 2022
Funny How — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2022
A Note from Your Friendly Poetry Instructor — Rattle, 2022
The War in Spring — Winner, 2022 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Identity Lessons — Half Mystic Press, 2022
How Not to Kill — Harbor Review, 2022
Plans for the Afterlife — Baltimore Review, 2022
On Your Birthday — One Art’s Most-Read Poem of August 2022
Motherhood for Beginners — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2021
Tahoma Doesn’t Love Us — PBS, 2021
I Read About You in the Paper — The Line, 2021
What the Dead Man Taught Me — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2020
When I Am Asked to Be More Like the Good Women of Sparta in the Movie 300 — Writers Resist, 2020
We Can Fry Anything — New Ohio Review, 2020
Buying Rocks for My Students — Adroit Journal, 2020 (featured on Palette Poetry: Poetry We Admire)
Advent on South Hill — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2019
Words on White Feminism Disguised as a Backless Dress — Prairie Schooner, 2019
Recovery Commands — Poets Reading the News, 2019
Three Poems from Hail and Farewell + Two New Poems — Wrath-Bearing Tree, 2019
How to Survive Patriotism in 2019 — Poets Reading the News, 2019
How Can I Tell You This — Comstock Review, 2019
Free Shipping — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2019
Poem As an Act of Terrorism — Steve Kowit Prize, 2nd Place, San Diego Poetry Annual, 2019
The Story of My Hair — American Journal of Poetry, 2019
Poem for Pregnant Women Who Hold Their Stomachs in Photos — Crosswinds, 2019
At the Wives’ Coffee — New Ohio Review, 2018
This Is Only a Test — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2018
Army Ball ✶ How to Die in Peacetime ✶ 13 Ways to Approach a Three-Headed Dog — Wrath-Bearing Tree, 2018
How We Love — Tahoma Literary Review, 2018
Why Women Write Poems for Their Sons ✶ How I Continue to Fail at Parenting — Radar, 2018
Breakfast with Santa — Writers Resist, 2018
When I Tell You I Love You — Prairie Schooner, 2017
Asking for a Friend — RHINO Founders Prize, 1st Place, 2017
What I Didn’t Say at the Table — Rattle: Poets Respond, 2017