two poems from a rind

These poems are the beginning of a book-length manuscript that explores the natural world as a recorder of lost history and lineage. Clicking on each poem below will pull up a PDF of the full text of the poem. Photo...

Daybook

This is a serial poem in short parts, a skinny slow intense work documenting a period of personal and national catastrophe, grief, and loss. First month: Finn and I share a desk: home means propped windows, tax papers, old notebooks...

Selections from ‘Godsnack’

These poems exist within a larger manuscript called Godsnack, in which I explore the intersection of feminism, godliness, and pop culture. Godsnack is indebted to many female pop culture icons of recent decades—from Siouxsie Sioux and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to Fiona...

Two Howling Poems

I know / what I don’t know. I know / my lack of knowing is its own kind / of camouflage Irrelevant Animals for crisi lee When they get together, the sky turnsmatchbook, green & blue with mad- ness. Random...

Insomnia, Four Voices

Insomnia works off a simple set of rules. I pick up a random book, open to a random page and select a snippet; repeat until finished. It’s interesting to me how the voices arise out of such a process, also how...

‘Desire-Production’ and ‘Object / Image’

Desire-Production and Object / Image are a thematic mix, engaging with intersections of literature, technology, and environment. Desire-Production Within what terms do you imaginethe church in your hometown, assuminga small town, assuming a churchtown. Something rough that could touch you...

Ruth Again

This poem is part of a ‘resurrections’ project to summon ancient and mythical women into present day, in the hopes that inhabiting their feelings, fury, and patience will bring new understanding. I bleed out of every memory of you. You...

Three Poems

Girls are / after all / relational. Clicking on each poem below will pull up a PDF of the full text of the poem Digital art “Girl in Snow” by Ali Battey

“Ovid” and “Teotihuacan and Us”

At the center of my forthcoming book The Leniad is a sprawling epic about a fictive character’s exploits in sex, travel, and the daily world of capital. On either side of this epic are short, intense poems that shape-shift. “Ovid”...

New World Recycling

New World Recycling is part of a larger series of poems that examine / explore the decay and danger within a rural, often forgotten landscape; the harm within the intimate (here, of queer intimacy); and the haunting presence and aftershocks...

Two Bug Poems

Ways in which I am unlike a bug I do not breed rapidly. At the end of the day, I still haven’t learned to fly: neither truly, nor directly. I have no prehistoric emergency parachute to speak of. Try as...

July 26-28

Poems from Planets and Other Circumstances, a manuscript in progress.