Poems

• Three poems in Christ & Cascadia Jan. 14, 2021

• “There was a poet on Edisto Island who roared” in Journal of Mennonite Writing 12.2

• “Roadrunner and Coyote” in Windhover 21.1

• “Spring During a War” in Dappled Things 10.3

• “Blossoms” in King County Metro’s Poetry on Buses: Writing Home

• “The Old Magician’s Wife” in Rock & Sling 7.2

• “The Ark” in Pontoon 7

• “The Twelve Days of Christmas” in Pontoon 7

• “Hanging the Laundry, Awaiting the Reign of God” in Pontoon 5

• “Body of Christ” in Pontoon 5

• “Trespassing in Stillwater” in Bellingham Review 24.1

• “L’eau Vivant: The Nuon River” in The Journal of African Travel Writing 8/9

• “Teacher: A Folk Tale” in Talking River Review

• “This Cup of Night” in Heliotrope 3

• “The Flightless Ancestors of Birds” in Heliotrope 3

• “I Did Not Take Him Back” in Pontoon 3

• “Oranges” in the Goshen College Bulletin

• “Dying Has Its Own Details” in Permafrost 20

Essays

• “Nature, Art, and Spirit: Conversations with Artists Lenae Nofziger and Alycia Scheidel” on Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

• “Tangled Paths” in Goshen College’s The SST Stories Project

• Review of The Talking Book of July by Rick Alley in Mid-American Review 19.1

• “Phonography” in The Inlander

Chapbooks

Signs Following, Winner of the Heliotrope Poetry Chapbook Award, Spokane, Washington, 2004.

Signs Following is a collection of linked poems telling the fictional story of a family of Christian snake handlers in Oklahoma inspired by this real-life custody battle. When Heliotrope’s limited print run sold out, the rights reverted to me and I printed a second edition available for $10 plus shipping. Please contact me to purchase one.

The Music is with the River, Pinchpenny Press, Goshen, Indiana, 1994

The Music is with the River includes pieces written in Côte d’Ivoire during a Study-Service Term at Goshen College. Copies are available through Pinchpenny Press for $2.50.