Poems
New Poems
- “The Archaeoastronomer Questions the Purposes of the Destroyed Neolithic Menhir,” third place, short form, in the 2020 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Society Contest.
Poems that appear in Maps of a Hollowed World:
- “The Undertaker’s Vision of Burial as an Act of Luthiery,” Impossible Task, September 2020
- “Middle Generations: On Reading Keats, The Deputy Chief Medic Deletes a Love Letter from the Geologist, a Past Sweetheart,” Apricity Press, issue 5, May 2020
- “First Generation: The Deputy Chief Medic Refuses to Watch the Shuttle Launch Video,” “Middle Generation: The Archivist Received an Invitation to a Dinner Party aboard Ship at Which Vintage-Style Gelatin Dishes Are Served but Not Consumed,” and “Middle Generations: The Engineer Aboard the Generation Ship Compiles a List of Objects in Her Daughter’s Diorama of Houston,” The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 10 No. 1 — 2020
- “Last Generation: The Engineer Composes a Message Before Departing for the Planet,” “Last Generation: The Counselor Records an Increase in Instances of the Pathetic Fallacy as the Landing Party Prepares to Leave the Ship,” and “Last Generation: The Communications Officer Imagines the Debate Over Naming the Landing Site After Houston as a Final Session of Couples Therapy,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, March 2019
- “First Generation: The Undertaker Contemplates the Sanctified Ground on Which No One Can Stand,” “First Generation: The Mathematician Deletes a Message to His Daughter On Earth,” and “Middle Generations: The Generation Ship’s Counselor Annotates a Journal Article with Quotes from The Time Machine,” Slippage Lit, Issue Three, December 2019
- “First Generation: The Counselor Prepares Her Retirement Speech,” Liquid Imagination, Issue 42, August 2019.
- “First Generation: The Miner Writes Home to His Grandmother Regarding His Upcoming Wedding,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 71: 3rd Quarter 2019
Poems that appear in Small Waiting Objects:
- “The Artificial Intelligence of Grief,” On Spec, #109 Vol. 29 No 2, November 2018
- “Separation Anxiety,” Strange Horizons, 10 September 2018
- “Alima Among the Trees” and “Artist/Model,” Projector Magazine, Issue 1, April 2018
- “Aubade: Taking Off,” Kaleidotrope, Spring 2018
- “Moons of Mars,” Helios Quarterly, vol. 2, March 2018
- “New Moon,” The Future Fire, June 2017
- “Iris,” Strange Horizons, 10 April 2017
- “Aubade: Morning Aboard the Colony Ship,” “Notes Toward a Eulogy for Celis Margrave,” Web Conjunctions, 20 December 2016
- “Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects,” Recompose, #2: Ritualistic Pompadour, September 2016
- “Canals of Mars,” “In Which Miss Emily Bethel Wakes a Hundred Years Later in Every Possible Future,” “New Moon: Naming, Rites,” The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 6 No. 3, July 2016
- “The Tea Kettle Awaits the New Widow’s Return,” The Stonecoast Review, Issue 5, Summer 2016
- “Details,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 56: 4th Quarter 2015
- “When the First Ship Left,” Star*Line, Fall 2014
Older Poems:
- “Massacre”, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 2003
- “Wanting,” “Cow, in the Pond”, Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2002
- “Lantana Clings,” Houston Poetry Fest 2002 Anthology
- “Chemistry, ” Potpourri, vol. 15, no. 3
- “Refutation,” “Want,” “Mother’s Garden, ” Poem, vol. 88
Fiction
- “Into Nothingness,” Luna Station Quarterly, June 2019
- “All the Songs the Little Birds Sing,” Luna Station Quarterly, December 2017
- “Over the New Horizon,” The Future Fire, December 2016
- “Bridge,” Every Day Fiction, 18 October 2016
- “Points of Reverie Aboard the Gen Ship“, Kaleidotrope, Summer 2016
Read my Q&As with speculative poets over at Interstellar Flight Magazine.
Conversations with Speculative Poets: my current monthly column at Luna Station Quarterly, beginning in April 2019
rwx: Read/Write/eXplicate: my monthly column at Luna Station Quarterly, which ran from 2014 to 2017.