Selected Poems

  • The Atlantic, “Pharmacy”
  • The New Republic, “Regress”
  • Image Journal: “My Father at Eleven Years Old”
  • Plant Human Quarterly
  • Alaska Quarterly Review “Cows Returning from the Pasture”
  • American Life in Poetry: “ In April, After Six Months in the Hospital;” “Grandmother Portrait”
  • Rattle: “The Facts”
  • Verse Daily (Poetry Magazine) “My Mother Goes to Vote”
  • Poem-a day- (Poetry Magazine) “Gathering Leaves at Grade School” 
  • National Public Radio “My Mother Goes to Vote”
  • The Healing Muse “Analysis”
  • Image Magazine “Home from the Hospital”
  • Jewish Currents “Far Rockaway”
  • One Art: “Magnolia in Spring”, “Grade School Arithmetic”
  • Greensboro Review “After the Funeral”
  • Poetry East “ No Birds at the Feeder,” “ Apple Tree” “Tableau” “Bees and Asiatic Lilies in a Summer Garden” “Fig Tree in Spring”
  • North American Review; “ Keats’ Fiancée, ” The Radiologist Reading the Mammogram”
  • Midwest Quarterly “First Elegy; “ “Waiting”
  • Green Mountains Review “Special Occasion,” “ Onions,” My Mother’s Charm Bracelet, An Outfit to Bury Him In”
  • South Dakota Quarterly: “My Father’s War Medals”
  • Terrain: “To a Crepe Myrtle,” “Bee in Blue Tulip,” “ Burnings in October Light,” “After You Died” “Red Bird and Pine Tree”
  • Journal of the American Medical Association; “ After a Death” “Prognosis”, “Last Minute Pedicure”
  • American Poetry Journal: “Photograph of the Old Country, “ “Silence: An Elegy”
  • On the Seawall: “ My Mother’s Autograph Book,” “My Mother’s Pocketbook”
  • Tiferet: “One,” “Annunciation”
  • Plant Human Quarterly: “Night Garden” and “Home from the Hospital”
  • Valiasparo Review: “Wedding Dress”
  • Hiram Poetry Review: “Locked Ward, Visiting Hours”; “Stray Button Box”
  • University of Nebraska Press, “To Ted on Hiatus”
  • Mudfish, “Mother in her Bath”, “My Mother’s Stray Button Box,” “Old Painkiller Bottles”
  • North American Review, 2020, 2021
  • Alaska Quarterly Review, 2020
  • Apple Valley Review,
  • Image, 2005, 2013, 2019
  • American Life in Poetry, “Grandmother Portrait”
  • American Life in Poetry, “After Six Months in the Hospital”
  • Poem of the Day, Poetry Magazine, winter 2017
  • The Hudson Review, winter 2017
  • The Nation: April 8, 2013
  • Prairie Schooner, fall 2012
  • American Life in Poetry, “My Mother Goes to Vote,” Nov. 4, 2012
  • American Life in Poetry, “Mockingbird”, Sept. 26, 2011
  • American Life in Poetry “Eastern Market” April 18, 2011
  • New York Times blog, “Eastern Market” April 22, 2011
  • Southern Review, spring, 2010
  • The Atlantic, March, 2010
  • The New Republic, February 16, 2009.
  • Slate, May 27, 2008
  • Southwest Review, spring 2006.
  • Ploughshares, winter 2005.
  • The American Scholar, 1996.