Poetry

Journals

Guadete Sunday & New Mexico, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture,
(October 2025)
The Somnambulist & The Collectors: Synkroniciti Magazine, Dreams Issue, Fall 2025
Evening Ritual: Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry (August 2025)
Even if the Years Are Not Golden & All We are Left With, New Verse Review, (May 2025)
The Art of Reassembly, Ekstasis, September 2024
Controlled Burn, in Presence A Journal of Catholic Poetry, 2024
To My Husband on the Anniversary of His Father’s Death, in Synkroniciti, “Belonging” issue 2024
Visiting Hours, in The Examined Life Journal, Volume 11, 2024
When I, Having Become Drunk on The Divine Names Write a Poem, in Ekstasis, End of Winter Collection 2024
On Seeing the Portrait of Juliette Gordon Low by Edward Hughes, in The Ekphrastic Review, February 19th, 2024
Petition and Song for the Slow Road, in Solum Journal Volume IV, Fall 2023
Hate Box, in Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Issue 10, Winter 2023
Gift to the Vulgar Tongue: On Saint Jerome’s Long Labor in Joie de Vivre Journal, Fall 2023
Rat, in Grim and Gilded, Issue 15, Fall 2023
I Dreamt You In The Garden, in Ekstasis, Summer Collection 2023
Mid Lent, in Ekstasis Winter Collection 2023
Lubbock Lights from a Distance Dreaming, in equinox, March 2023
Lazarus Box, in Catholic Arts Today, February 2023
Good Friday, in America, February 2023
Well Met in the Bone Garden, in Locust Candy, January 2023
Winter’s Still Song, in Catholic Arts Today, November 2021
Kale Love, in The Examined Life Journal, Issue 9, 2021
Front Porch on a Rainy Afternoon, in The Examined Life Journal, Issue 8, Fall 2020
Paper Cranes, in Kyoto Journal: Insights from Asia, Issue 95*, August 2019
Red (On Learning of a Suicide), in Catholic Arts Today, February 2018
Two Blind Mice, in Crisis Magazine (poem included at end of R. Smith’s article Suicide’s Tormented Souls)

Interviews & Other

On Roy Campbell: The Greatest Poet You Never Read, in Athwart, April 4, 2025
Book Review: Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia, in Dappled Things, Q3, 2023
To What Light Will We Eventually Yield, in Sappho’s Torque 2023 Poetry Month Poet a Day Blog Series
Catholic Literary Arts Featured Writer Spotlight, in Catholic Literary Arts May 2022 Newsletter
Rhyme And Meter Revisited, interview in How to Make a Living as a Poet by Gary Mex Glazner

Anthologies

The Paintings of Lady Drury’s Closet , in Thin Places and Sacred Spaces, Amethyst Press, 2024
The Eighth Station, in The Eighth Station, Via Crucis Press, 2024.
Raudive Voices, in Chaos, Dive, Reunion, Mutabilis Press, 2023.
Bitter Walnuts, in Chaos, Dive, Reunion, Mutabilis Press, 2023.
La Vida Nueva Del Oeste, 87105 in Seventeenth Annual Poetry At Roundtop Anthology
Hour Glass, in Houston Poetry Fest Anthology
As with Orchids, in Harwood Anthology of Poetry
Ash, in A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success Story of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene. (Listen to the Third Option recorded version from the Cult of Nice album here)

Contests

Finalist for the 2025-2027 Houston Poet Laureate position.
Even if the Years Are Not Golden, shortlisted for the Let Go The Goat Culture of Life Poetry Award, 2025
The Arrival of The Kings, 2nd place winner, 2024 Catholic Literary Arts Annual Sacred Poetry Contest
The Light that Holds Us, 3rd place winner, Catholic Literary Arts Assumption of Mary Contest 2022
Stella Maris, 2nd place winner, Catholic Literary Arts Advent Contest 2021
Advent Mass: 6:03 pm on a Saturday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, honorable mention Catholic Literary Arts, Advent Contest 2020

*First appears in Enchantment of the Ordinary Ed. John Gorman, Houston, Mutabalis Press, 2018.

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