AWARDS
"Devotion (Reflection)" was selected as the winning entry in the 2018 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, administered by the American Poetry Review. Read more about the prize here.
Bones to Peaches was selected by Seven Kitchens Press as a 2021 entry in the Robin Becker Chapbook Series.
“Unlike Some Boys”, published in ANMLY, December 2019, was named a finalist for Best of the Net 2020.
No Harbor was selected by L + S Press as the winner of its 2014 Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series.
CHAPBOOKS
Triptych, 2022, greying ghost
Bones to Peaches, 2021, Seven Kitchens Press
No Harbor, 2014, L + S Press
PUBLICATIONS
A conversation with Mike Lala about his book The Unreal City, BOMB Magazine, February 2024
5 Poems from After the Wild Iris in Tupelo Quarterly, May 2023
“The Arrival of St. Wolf” at Prelude Magazine, April 2023
4 Poems from “After the Wild Iris”, American Poetry Review July/August 2022
“Face-Names: The Face” and “Face-Names: The Name”, jubilat #38
"After Snowdrops" and "After Matins", from my manuscript After the Wild Iris, Beestung #7
“AW15”, The Journal, September 2020
“The Ha-Ha”, “Promissory”, “Attendance”, “Other Man at the End”, and “I Decline”, DREGINALD, September 2020
“In Search of a Lost Time that Never Existed”, Wax Nine Journal, May 2020
“Today I Am…”, The Poetry Project Poems and Texts, February 2020
“Unlike Some Boys”, ANMLY, December 2019, named a finalist for Best of the Net 2020.
“On the Hill”, 8 poems, November 2019
“At the End of History”, The Poetry Project Poems and Texts, October 2019
“Schema for Encountering Other Man in Performance”, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, August 2019
“Haggard”, Gertrude #29, May 2019
“Devotion (Reflection)”, American Poetry Review 47.5, September 2018
“Other Man No. 9”, juked, Summer 2018
“Manifesto”, muff magazine, Summer 2018
"Restraint", Off the Coast, Summer 2017
"Pastoral", Sentinel Literary Quarterly, April-June 2017
"A Lure", Lines + Stars, Winter 2017
"My Last Bad Check", decomP magazine, September 2016
"Nonfiction", "No Horses", "Temperance", and "Husbandry", American Poetry Review 44.2, April 2015
"Hush" and "My Geotic North", Lines + Stars, Winter 2013