I sold my first poem long before my first short story, but always felt I couldn’t quite own the name “poet” so I didn’t write those early sales down. Here are the ones I remember, in publication order, latest first. Coming Soon listed at the bottom.
46. “Positronic Effigy” in Abyss & Apex September 2023
45. “If I Were Human” in Star*Line
44. “Eyeliner Boy” in Riddled With Arrows, February 2022.
43. “Alternate Realities” in Illumen Winter 2022
42. “Return to the Cities” in Future Fire, 1-30-22
40-41. “Infernocrusher” and “Dragonrider” in Simultaneous Times Newsletter December 2021 – Dragonrider was nominated for the 2022 Rhysling award!
39. “Window is Born” in TERSE, May 2021
36-38: “Princess Cat Robot”, “Over the Moon” and “Skynet Demurs” in Utopia Science Fiction February, 2021.
35. “Altar Stone” in The Red House Anthology from Cypress Press.
34. “Arab Law Student Shot by Police” performed on YouTube for Cleveland Humanities Festival 2020 by Hillary Wheelock.
33. “Homeland Offense” in Dreams & Nightmares, January 2020
32. “The Hot One” in Kaleidotrope January 2020.
31. “Unlooping, a Time Travel Rondel” in Asimov’s January 2020. Reprinted in the 2021 Rhysling Award anthology
30. “Football on Mars” in the Autumn 2019 Illumen
25-29: “Choose Your Own Advent”, “Puzzle Box”, “St. Sebastian” and “Life in Front of Counters” all on Lite Lit One.
24. “On the Blackrock Road” in Dreams & Nightmares May 2019
23. “My Killer Robot” in Illumen in April 2019
22. “To Klaatu” in Geek Out! Queer Pop Lit Art & Ideas
21. “We Carry” in Analog March 2019
20. “The Last Typewriter” in Riddled With Arrows, November 2018
19. “Spaceship Office Building” is a Haiga on Grievous Angel, July, 2018
18. “To Current Occupant” in Strange Horizons, March 5, 2018
17. “Hazel” in Liquid Imagination, March 2018
16. “To the Knight’s Lady” in Eye to the Telescope, January 2018
15. “Calling it a Day” sestina in Spaceports and Spidersilk January 2018.
14. “The Magic Mirror Confesses” in Illumen Fall 2017
13. “Little Monsters” was part of the 2017 SFPA online Halloween poetry reading.
12. “How to Talk to Boys” appeared in The Ghazal Page in August, 2016.
11. “An Unrequited Process Loops” appeared in Asimov’s Magazine in February, 2015. Reprinted in the 2016 Rhysling Award anthology. Also on the Poetry Planet podcast for Starship Sofa.
10. “Shelter” appeared in Vending Machine: Poetry for Change in November, 2014.
9. “The Slaves in my Basement” appeared in Songs of Eretz in November, 2014.
8. “The Mermaids of Lake Erie” won second prize in the Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest in May, 2013
6-7. “At the Tip Top” and “Two Body Problem” appeared in Issue 9 of Eye to the Telescope in July, 2013 (Free online)
5. “What do you want for lunch?” appeared in Sanitarium Magazine issue 9 in 2013. (Free PDF download of issue.)
4. “Found Poems” appeared in Death in Common in 2009. (Order from Amazon.)
3. “Forearm Bones” was part of the 2008 SFPA Online Halloween Poetry Reading. (MP3s of artists reading their work. Click this to hear me. I should really do another of these.)
2. “Pancho’s Email” appeared in Abyss and Apex in 2007. (Free online)
1. “Appartment on Hessler” in Deep Cleveland in 2006
Coming Soon
“Dearest Nemesis” on Poetry Substack.