“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ~Mark Twain
“Always be a poet, even in prose.” ~Charles Baudelaire
POEMS
Published
- New Plains Review, Spring 2023, “Writing Like Birds”
- Wild Roof Review, Issue 18, January 2023, “Thoreau Goes West”
- The Under Review, Winter 2022, Issue 5, “Pitching and Politics”
- Wild Roof Review, Issue 7, March 2021, “Unkempt”
- Father and I , “Last Remnant”
- The Minnesota Review Vol. 2018, Issue 91, November 1, 2018, “Minnesota Prairie,”
- Third Wednesday, Vol. X1, Number 3, Summer 2018, “Paintings as Metaphor”
- Typishly, December 2017, “Blue Memories”
- The Ravens Perch, November 2017, “Icon,” “Magic,” “A Bowling Poem”
- Emerald Coast Review, October 2017, “Thoreau the Surveyor,” “Trinitarian Delight”
- West Texas Literary Review, September 2017. “An Un-Finisher,” “Starlings”
- Into the Void Magazine, Issue 5 (July 25th 2017), “Picture Album”
- Blue Heron Review (Summer 2017): “Momentous Occasions”
- Aji Magazine (Spring 2017): “Disturbance at Drumcliffe“
- West Texas Literary Review (Volume 1, March 2017). “Larix,” “Into the Snow Sea,” “Dust“
- GFT Press (March 2017): “The True Nature of Philosophy“
- Temenos (Fall 2016) “Crow is Reborn,” “Crow Sings”
- Spitball, The Literary Baseball Magazine (October 2010). “Roberto Clemente (Topps 1972)”
- Montana Poems
FICTION
- The Best of Frontier Tales, Volume Three: Available Here
- “Bounty Hunter” at Frontier Tales
- “Box Canyon” at The Western Online
- “Cottonwood Death” at Frontier Tales
- “Montana is Big” at The Western Online
- “Better Tombstones” September 2016 Frontier Tales
RECOGNITION
My poem “Unkempt” was read and discussed on the Wild Roof Roundtable podcast. (Here is a link)
My western noir short-story “Cottonwood Death” was voted fan favorite in the December 2011 issue of Frontier Tales, and was anthologized in the Best of Frontier Tales, Volume 3.
ANTHOLGIES
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