POEMS

  1. ★ “There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 13, 2011

  2. ★ “Martin Behaim Can’t See What’s Right In Front of His Face: Nuremberg, 1492” Jacar Press, Forthcoming

  3. ★ “The Amish Are At The Zoo” Girls With Glasses, June, 2011 and Nerve Cowboy, Spring 2011

  4. ★ “’What if I break his penis?’” Girls With Glasses, June, 2011 and Nerve Cowboy, Spring 2011

  5. ★ “Nero Debuts “Bennie And The Jets,” Rome, July 64 AD” Slant, Forthcoming

  6. ★ “Richard III Doesn’t Think He Belongs Here: Before The Battle Of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485” Slant, Forthcoming

  7. ★ “One Small Step For Man: Gagarin’s Defenestration, 11 October 1961” Slant, Forthcoming

  8. ★  “Lights, Camera, Action!” No Tell Motel, October 2010

  9. ★ “Swiss Mix” No Tell Motel, October 2010

  10. ★ “Layered Vegetable Salad” No Tell Motel, October 2010

  11. ★ “Beef Burgundy Hero” No Tell Motel, October 2010

  12. ★ “California Shrimp Salad With Avocado Cream Dressing” No Tell Motel, October 2010

  13. ★ “Coming-Out Parties” Pearl, #43, Fall/Winter 2010

  14. ★ “What Ronnie James Owes Attila The Hun: 421 AD” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 22, 2010

  15. ★ “Thinking of Gerry Locklin at Tate Britain” Nerve Cowboy, Spring 2010

  16. ★ “Puberty Looks Not Kindly Upon Miss Kathy’s Intermediate Ballet Class” Nerve Cowboy, Spring 2010

  17. ★ “Beautiful Loser: 480 BC” Queen City Review, Fall 2009

  18. ★ “The Separation Of Heaven And Earth: 24 October 1601” Queen City Review, Fall 2009

  19. ★ “Stradivari Gets His Motivation On: Cremona, 1661” Queen City Review, Fall 2009

  20. ★ “Chernykh Discovers Asteroid #3656 Hemingway, Ukraine, 31 August 1978” City Paper, Summer 2009

  21. ★ “Telling It Like It Is” Nerve Cowboy, Summer 2009

  22. ★ “You Can Never Be Too Rich Or Too Thin…” Nerve Cowboy, Summer 2009

  23. ★ “Hospital Grade Benadryl” New Plains Review, Spring 2009

  24. ★ “Meditations on THE LIST (You Know The One)” Mannequin Envy, March, 2009

  25. ★ “1672: Newton Puts Two and Two Together, Finally” Umbrella, March 1, 2009

  26. ★ “New Year’s Day, 1912” La Fovea, February 8, 2009

  27. ★ “Friendship 7 Splashes Down And Almost Undiscovers The New World” La Fovea, February 8, 2009

  28. ★ “Evel Knievel Poem #3” Nerve Cowboy, #26, Fall 2008

  29. ★ “What Your Satin Pants Tell Me” Nerve Cowboy, #26, Fall 2008

  30. ★ “Hedy Lamarr, Liz Taylor, and Elizabeth II Meet in the Ladies Room” No Tell Motel, September 8, 2008

  31. ★ “Aelgifu of Northampton Falls for The Leader of the Pack, 1016” No Tell Motel, September 10, 2008

  32. ★ “New Spectacles, 1727” No Tell Motel, September 12, 2008

  33. ★ “OMG! What Hath God Wrought! Aboard the Sully, 1832” No Tell Motel, September 9, 2008

  34. ★ “The Death of Venus: Florence, 1476” No Tell Motel, September 11, 2008

  35. ★ “Short Fuse: N.B.’s Retreat” Mannequin Envy, Spring 2008

  36. ★ “1942: Nikola Tesla takes a walk around the block” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 22, 2008

  37. ★ “Joseph Nicéphore-Niépce Thinks Up Photography For The First Time On Holiday In Sardinia, 1797” Pearl, Issue 41, 2010

  38. ★ “New Horizons, Florence, 1420” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 44, Winter 2007

  39. ★ “1350: English Replaces French in English Schools” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 44, Winter 2007

  40. ★ “The Earl of Essex Unsuccessfully Defends his Return From Ireland Before the Privy Council, 29 September, 1599” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 44, Winter 2007

  41. ★ “Run, Woman, Run’ Hampton Court, 1533” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 44, Winter 2007

  42. ★ “Take My Wife, For Example. No, Really—Take My Wife: Hastings, October 14, 1066” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49,

     No. 43, Autumn 2007

  1. ★ “Mayors of Rome and Tunis Sign Treaty Officially Ending Third Punic War: February 1985” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 43, Autumn 2007

  2. ★ “Joe Buck” Gulf Stream, Vol. 27

  3. ★ “You Want Some International Relations, Yes?” 5AM, Issue 26, Spring 2007

  4. ★ “Patent # 1,773,079: Method Of Preparing Food Products (August 12, 1930)” Mannequin Envy, Winter 2007 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

  5. ★ “Take My Wife, For Example. No, Really—Take My Wife: Hastings, October 14, 1066” Mannequin Envy, Winter 2007

  6. ★ “U.S. Grant Becomes a Rock Star and Doesn’t Even Know It” Nerve Cowboy, Number 22, Fall 2006

  7. ★ “Whatever the Other Life Brings” No Tell Motel, October 25, 2006

  8. ★ “Packing Heat at the Tinderbox Lounge” No Tell Motel, October 23, 2006

  9. ★ “Long Ago And Oh, So Far Away” No Tell Motel, October 24, 2006  (Finalist, Best of the Net, 2007)

  10. ★ “Rearview” No Tell Motel, October 27, 2006

  11. ★ “401(k)” No Tell Motel, October 26, 2006

  12. ★ “My Three Year-Old Drops the F-Bomb” Pearl, Issue 37, Spring/Summer 2007

  13. ★ “Sweet Nothings” Rattle, Issue 25, June 2006

  14. ★ “Why Teenage Girls Blow Teenage Boys” Nerve Cowboy, Number 21, Spring 2006

  15. ★ “Why Women Blow Cops” Nerve Cowboy, Number 21, Spring 2006

  16. ★ “Here, Kitty Kitty” 5AM, Issue 23, Winter 2005

  17. ★ “True Grit” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 12, 2005

  18. ★ “When No-One’s Looking” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 12, 2005

  19. ★ “Hard Sell” Nerve Cowboy, Number 19, Spring 2005

  20. ★ “How Hard Can It Be?” Nerve Cowboy, Number 19, Spring 2005

  21. ★ “Shave” Chiron Review, Issue #79, Summer 2005

  22. ★ “Come to Where the Flavor Is” Chiron Review, Issue #79, Summer 2005

  23. ★ “Drunk, Drunker, Drunkest” Chiron Review, Issue #79, Summer 2005

  24. ★ “Without the Clutter of a Plot” Nerve Cowboy, Number 16, Fall 2003

  25. ★ “Voted Most Likely To…” 5AM, Issue 16, Spring 2002

  26. ★ “At Least the Weather’s Good” Reveries from the Chaise Lounge, Zerx Press, December 2001

  27. ★ “Ask No Questions, Get No Lies” Rattle, Issue 16, Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 2001

  28. ★ “The Marlboro Man Tapes: Interview 1” 5AM, Issue 15, Fall 2001

  29. ★ “26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment  Band the Night Before the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia” 5AM, Issue 15, Fall 2001

  30. ★ “According to the Fortune Teller Miracle Fish” Pearl, Fall 2001

  31. ★ “During Sleep” Pearl, Fall 2001

  32. ★ “10,000 Hubcaps” Pearl, Fall 2001

  33. ★ “No Towel” Nerve Cowboy, Number 11, Spring 2001

  34. ★ “When you have sex with your friend 2” Chiron Review

  35. ★ “Sunken Road, Antietam Creek” Pitt Magazine

  36. ★ “An Unexpected Thing” Pearl, Number 29, Fall/Winter 2000

  37. ★ “Echocardiogram” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 10, 2000

  38. ★ “Home Box Office” Chiron Review, Issue 62, Summer 2000

  39. ★ “The Last Resort” Chiron Review, Issue 62, Summer 2000

  40. ★ “Valentine With Blood and Lament” Rattle, Issue 12, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 1999

  41. ★ “Snow Shovel U-Haul Blues” Nerve Cowboy, Number 8, Fall 1999

  42. ★ “Kelli Crack Whore” bender Magazine, Issue 2, 1999

  43. ★ “Melt” bender Magazine, Issue 2, 1999

  44. ★ “Six Years, No Kids, Thank God” Pearl, Number 27, Fall/Winter 1998

  45. ★ “What you remember last night after” 5AM, Issue 9, 1997

  46. ★ “Untitled. Untitled.” Rattle, Issue 7, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 1997

  47. ★ “Sweet Nothings” Rattle, Issue 7, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 1997

  48. ★ “Woman, Most Intelligent Form of Life in the Universe” Chiron Review, Issue 51, Summer 1997

  49. ★ “Smile For The Camera” Chiron Review, Issue 51, Summer 1997

  50. ★ “The Last Great Event” Chiron Review, Issue 51, Summer 1997

  51. ★ “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 14, 1997

  52. ★ “To the three students who live above me,” Ziegler Boy, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1997

  53. ★ “Sex Ed” The Oakland Review, Spring 1997

  54. ★ “Truckstop” Pearl, Winter 1996

  55. ★ “Indecent Exposure” Chiron Review, Issue 48, Autumn 1996

  56. ★ “Poem for Jeffrey Dahmer, Convicted Necrophiliac & Cannibal, Murdered by Another Inmate, 11/28/94” Chiron Review, Issue 46/47, Spring/Summer 1996

  57. ★ “Am I Dead Yet?” Minotaur 31, Volume 5, Number 1, 1996

  58. ★ “Janis” The Oakland Review, Spring 1994

  59. ★ “40 Gallons” The Oakland Review, Spring 1994

  60. ★ “Old MacDonald, his Flock, his Herd, and his Gaggle Decide to Buy T-Shirts, Jeans, and Matching Socks.” Explorations, 1993