Online Poem Selection
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PSYCH MURDERS
Poems from PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022) a book of hybrid memoir poems that witnesses and survives shock treatments, psychiatric wards, and suicidal ideation, toward new futures of care.
Poem of the Week Series: Poetry & Mental Health Difference ~ Guest Curator
“ETC. The Resistance” at Poetry Foundation
“Admission Threshold,” “Turtle,” “Dear Murderer” at poemoftheweek.com
“Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog” in Zoeglossia poem of the week (text and audio)
“Testament” in Disability Studies Quarterly (text and audio)
“My Own Sensorium: Poems and Field Notes from Psych Murders” in In Corpore Sano
“Window Dressing” in Anomaly
“(in)voluntary” in Rogue Agent
“Turtle” in Wordgathering
“Solar Eclipse” in Zoeglossia poem of the week (text and audio)
from Psych Murders in Zoeglossia reading (video, starts at 48:00)
The Color She Gave Gravity
Poems from The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System, 2017) explore the seams of writing, movement, and mental health difference.
“Past Midnight,” “Unsolicited,” “Electrical Work” in Typo
“Penumbra” in Streetnotes
Every Horizon Turns Liquid
Poems from Every Horizon Turns Liquid, where neurodiversity meets ecopoetic immersion. A somatic poetic inquiry where water is at stake amidst climate change and evolutionary rigors that task the bodies – human, animal, plant, imaginary – that inhabit these biomes and plot escapes.
“underwater plot to get the raft back” in Dunes Review and as part of Zoeglossia poem of the week series as text and audio here.
“we ferry brackish,” “air buoyant & sprung,” “scenery drawl” in About Place: South
“startle reflex” in Lime Hawk
“georgia low country” in Clade Song (text and audio)
“Window,” “Almost Spring,” “Genus Matteuccia” in About Place: Works of Resistance, Resilience
“Underwater Arbitration” in The Hard Work of Hope
“Avian Cartography” in About Place: Geographies of Justice
“Work It Down To The Ground,” “Partial Ingredient List of Lake Michigan Water” in Distantia Reading Series (video)
“dear water,” “Swell,” “High Risk Erosion Area (HREA),” “[Lake Michigan] Diva” in Venti Journal
“sacral swallow” in About Place: When We Are Lost/How We Are Found
“ectothermic memories” in (Home)body as part of Cid Pearlman Performance
“Water Island of the Yellow Boot Brigade” in Sonora Review (video, starts at 26:00)
“Eurasian Watermilfoil” in Plants & Poetry Journal: Wildlife of the Underworld (text and audio)
“Anthropocene Curse” in Anomaly (text and audio)
Ghost Sister Project
Poems from the Ghost Sister series, which documents the relationship between an alive sister and a dead sister through haunting, possession, underwater dances, and family archives.
“Dreams of the Stillborn,” “Ghost Food” in BathHouse Journal (text and audio)
Individual Poems
“Invitation to the Isolation Fest International Pleasure Saturnalia” in the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival (video)
“After 39” in Poetry Jukebox Project (text and audio)
Essays
“Disability as a Creative Practice” in Mad in America
“Hurricane Poetics and Crip Psychogeographies”with Petra Kuppers in Ecotone
“Tendings: Creative Practice as Self-Care” with Petra Kuppers in Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly (text with audio file and image description)