Poetry

Journals and Magazines (forthcoming)

Mom Egg Review. “Gertrude on arte materna.”

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. “Our Lady of Innumerable Appellatives.”

New York Quarterly, Without a Doubt: poems illuminating faith. “Why I don’t call myself an atheist.”

Journals and Magazines

Menacing Hedge. “Ode to Paulina” and “Summer’s Dregs.”

Whale Road Review. “Juliet Ode.”

EcoTheo. “Our Lady of the Honey Fungus.”

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. “God the Mother Speaks of Hearts,” “God the Mother Speaks of Salt,” “God the Mother Speaks of Xenia,” “Book of Life,” and “Benediction.”

Kenyon Review. “Our Lady of Thread.”

Exponent II. “Our Lady of Cancellation / Consolation.”

Mom Egg Review. “Self-Portrait as Lady Macbeth in 30 Shades of Red.”

The Fourth River. “Daughter, Becoming.”

Hotel Amerika. “Red-Handed” and “A Walk with Asherah.”

Segullah. “A Goddess in the House” and “Our Lady of Sandcastles.”

Whale Road Review. “God the Mother Speaks Fondly of Fish.”

Literary Mama. “Our Lady of Snow Forts.”

MER VOX folio. “God the Mother Speaks of Coprophagia.”

Jet Fuel Review. “Pied Beauty Redux,” “God the Mother Speaks of Matriphagy,” and “God the Mother Speaks of Agency.”

AGNI. “Our Lady of the WIC Check.”

Tahoma Literary Review. “Self-Portrait as Perdita in 33 Washes of Purple.”

The Maynard. “Fragments of a World.”

The Carolina Quarterly. “God the Mother Speaks with a Mouth of Ocean.”

EcoTheo Review. “Our Lady of Eggplant,” “god’s breath,” and “Every creeping thing that creepeth.”

River Mouth Review. “Breathe In.”

Cave Wall. “Viola and Olivia in the Gloaming.”

Whiskey Island. “Dear Ellen, 1852” and “Dear Susannah.”

Amethyst Review. “May Day.”

The Rupture. “Wish Bank” and “Misdirected Mail.”

Gulf Coast. “How We’re Made.”

Gingerbread House Literary Magazine. “Hermione’s Blue Beasts.”

Poetry International, Poetry@Tech, & Detainee Allies: Dignity Not Detention Poetry Prize. “What Welcome Feels Like.”

Cimarron Review. “Incarnadine.”

SWWIM. “Our Lady of Not Forgetting.”

Sweet. “Our Lady of Lengthening Days.”

Sugar House Review. “Our Lady of the Atlantic” and “Our Lady of the Miracle Quail.”

Sunstone. “Still Mormon.”

Thimble Mag. “Pioneer Day.”

Westerly. “In this version.”

Gingerbread House Literary Review. “Lady-in-Waiting.”

Ruminate. “God the Mother Speaks of Trees.”

Tupelo Quarterly. “God the Mother Speaks of Cosmolatry.”

Minerva Rising. “Logophilia.”

Amethyst Review. “We Christen the Canoe Sunday School.”

Bellingham Review. “Self-Portrait as Juliet’s Nurse with Betta splendens and Pulsar.”

Gingerbread House Literary Review. “Self-Portrait as Titania with Newborn Animus.”

Crab Orchard Review. “Titania in Yellow” and “Self-Portrait as Titania, Spellbound.”

POETRY. “Study for Belief with Lines from Star Trek: The Original Series.”

Dialogue. “Our Lady of the Temple.”

North American Review. “Llama Berserk Syndrome.”

RHINO. “How to Give Birth to Words.”

Segullah. “[Pummel my tough heart, oh Mother-Goddess]”

Mom Egg Review. “Multipara.”

Passages North. “Self-Portrait as Miranda, A Green Girl.”

Dialogue. “Self-Portrait of Mormon Middle Child as Isabella” and “After the Curtain Falls, Isabella Speaks in Achromatics.”

Irreantum. “Volvelle.”

Storyscape. “Anagnorisis—in the Green Room.”

AGNI. “O is the Sound of Tragedy.”

Clover: A Literary Rag. “The Fartiste.”

Sweet Tree Review. “When my girl’s eyes begin to drift.”

Menacing Hedge. “Fowl. Cauliflower. Macaroni. Pudding,” “My Body,” and “Breathe Out.”

Literary Mama. “Third Graders.”

Coffin Bell Journal. “Ode to Lady Macbeth,” “Hecate, as you did for Demeter, do,” “Joseph Smith’s Death Mask,” “Hyrum Smith’s Death Mask,” and “Ode to Polygamy.”

SWWIM. “Gertrude on artum nuptias.”

Sweet Tree Review. “Your favorite poem loves you” and “Makeshift Ornithology.”

Sugar House Review. “Self-Portrait as Miranda after Shipwreck,” “Self-Portrait as Miranda with Xenophilia and Apostasy,” and “Self-Portrait as Portia and Jessica at the Witching Hour.”

Into the Void. “The Mercy of Mud” and “Contrails.”

Western Humanities Review. “ab ovo” and “Self-Portrait as Perdita, Reperta.”

Gingerbread House Literary Review. “Self-Portrait as Titania with Cupid’s Flower and Changeling” and “What, will these hands never be clean?”

Zone 3. “Self-Portrait as Perdita with Derelict Ferris Wheel.”

So to Speak. “Self-Portrait as Jessica with Phoropter and Ursa Minor,” “Self-Portrait of Jessica as Mormon Meeting House, Repurposed,” “Self-Portrait as Perdita as Lost I,” and “Portrait of Hermione as Phantom Limn,” and “Ode to the Plural Marriage of My Mother, Nan Page, Merry Wife.”

Matador Review. “How Not to ‘Bring Down the Flowers'”

Boxcar Poetry Review. “Fetor.”

Sunstone. “Former Mormons Catechize Their Kids.”

Hotel Amerika. “Self-Portrait as Rosalind with Topophilia and Heresy,” “Self-Portrait as Isabella with Theophilic Ecstasy,” and “Self-Portrait as Ophelia in 33 Hues of Blewe.”

Barrelhouse. “Pon Farr.”

Hawai’i Pacific Review. “Dear Grandma.”

Sweet. “usque ad mala.”

Baltimore Review. “Ophelia, Amphibian.”

The American Journal of Poetry. “Thunder. Enter THREE WITCHES meeting HECATE” and “Thunder and Lightning. Enter THREE WITCHES.”

Sugar House Review. “Self-Portrait as Cordelia, Mormon Polygamous Wife.”

Literary Mama. “Dear Grandpa,” “Play Nice,” “Why We Tell Them the Truth,” “Hippocampus,” “After the Divorce,” and “Birthday.”

Milk Journal. “Love Song for David Attenborough.”

Segullah. “If Mother Braids a Waterfall,” “Emily Whispers Bird Lore to My Daughters,” “Housewife Dreams of Names,” “Moses Removed His Shoes,” “Twilight Zone Episode 2a, 1985,” “Lazy Eye,” “On Keeping Daughters from Drowning,” “Black Spain,” and “Song for a Stork.”

Gingerbread House Literary Review. “Beatrice Ode,” “Botticelli’s Venus,” “Titania’s Adoption Papers,” “Ophelia and the Eels.”

Jeopardy. “On Alabama Bridge, Fireworks,” “Low Tide at Squalicum Bay,” and “Love Bugs, Part 1.”

The Fourth River. “Apples.”

Sweet Tree Review. “Self-Portrait as Titania in Hypnopompic Bower.”

Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest.“Logophilia.”

Ground Fresh Thursday. “Plod” and “On this quiet Saturday.”

Dialogue. “Tropical Butterfly House,” “Offerings,” and “Glazier.”

Sunstone. “P-Day at the Sugar Shack,” “Missionary Work in Kanata, Canada” and “Revising.”

Young Ravens Literary Review. “Sharing the Shower with 2 Kids,” “Migration,” “Migraine,” and “Paradox”

Clover, A Literary Rag. “Perspective,” “Rock Collection,” “I Could Never Be a Jehovah’s Witness,” “Moving,” and “Lovebugs Part 2.”

A Mother Here Art and Poetry Contest. “Eloher,” “Harvest Dance,” “Whale Watching,” and “Mother Has a Degree in Exterior Design.”

Weave. “At the Museum of Natural History, Tallahassee.”

North American Review. “Arachnophobe.”

Wilderness Interface Zone. “The day you came out to me,” “Spider Line,” and “Some Words.”

Vines Leaves Literary Journal. “While in the Shower, I Discover I Am Not Alone.”

The Lake. “Growing Up in a Bookstore.”

Front Porch Review. “Seeing Things” and “Gertrude Overheard at the Salon.”

BlazeVOX. “Hermione in Prison” and “Stingrays.”

Borderline. “Miranda,” “Juliet Txts Romeo,” and “The Untaming.”

Exponent II. “Why You Still Believe,” “Grown,” “Parasite,” “Stay-At-Home Chemist,” and “Proselytizing by a Marian Shrine in Québec.”

Anthologies

I Sing the Salmon Home, (Empty Bowl Press): “Zombie Bears.”

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, (Torrey House Press): “Our Lady of the Gulls” and “Breathe In.”

Evergreen: Fairy Tales, Essays, & Fables from the Dark Northwest, (Scablands Books): “Ophelia, Amphibian.”

For Love of Orcas, (Wandering Aengus Press): “Whale Watching.” 

Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, (Peculiar Pages, 2018): “Eloher,” “Proselytizing by a Marian Shrine in Québec,” “Creation Story,” “Mother Has a Degree in Exterior Design,” “Whale Watching,” “If Mother Braids a Waterfall,” “Harvest Dance,” and “New Moon.”

Mule Tales: An Anthology. “October in the South” and “On the 59S to Houston.”