Table of Contents: POETS’ GUIDE TO AMERICA

Poets Guide web cover

All poems written with Martin Ott.

Poets’ Guide to America was published by Brooklyn Arts Press on October 28, 2012.

It was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize.

Spencer Dew reviewed it for decomP magazinE here.

John Gibbs reviewed it for Switchback here.

Joanne Mallari reviewed it for Bookin’ with Sunny here.

Rachel Trousdale reviewed it for Rain Taxi here.

  1. “Underground America” — Grey Sparrow Journal (Winter, January 1, 2012)
  2.  “Duologue in Delaware” — Post Road Magazine Number 21 (2011)
  3.  “Pantoum in Pittsburgh” — The Louisiana Review Volume 9 (Spring 2011)
  4.  “Ghazal in Georgia” — Kestrel Issue 26 (Spring 2011)
  5. “Pantsless in Boston” — Eleven Eleven Number 8 (January 2010)
  6.  “Ruins of Roanoke” — Breakwater Review Number 4 (January 2011); California Quarterly Volume 37, Number 1 (2011)
  7.  “Bee Lust in Manhattan” — Bryant Literary Review Vol. 11 (May 2010)
  8.  “Underwater Tag off Fort Bragg” — Untamed Ink Volume 3 (2010)
  9.  “Rallying in Rhode Island” — Post Road Magazine Number 21 (2011)
  10. “If Poets Had Conquered America” (as “If Poets Had Discovered America”) — The Dos Passos Review Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2010)
  11. “Kickball on the Washington Mall” — The Bicycle Review Number 8 (August 24, 2010)
  12. “The Books of Hazard” — The Coachella Review (Spring 2011)
  13.  “Tennessee Temptations” — Grey Sparrow Journal Issue 9 (Winter, January 1, 2012)
  14. “Objects in a Forgotten Cedar Point Lost-and-Found Locker” — Denver Syntax Number 20 (Summer 2010)
  15. “The Darlings of New Orleans” — Poemeleon Volume 4, Issue 2 (Winter/Spring 2010)
  16.  “The Vaunted Champion of Indianapolis” — Connecticut River Review (2010)
  17. “The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago” — Evergreen Review Number 122 (March 2010) City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Poems About Chicago (University of Iowa Press, 2012)
  18. “Fifteen Miles Outside the City Limits of Summervale, Alabama” — Umbrella Number 13 (Spring/Summer 2010)
  19.  “A Tale of Two Portlands” — Limestone (2011)
  20. “Monsters and Madmen of the Five Great Lakes” (as “Monsters, Wyrms and Snakes of the Five Great Lakes”) — Glint Number 2
  21. “Pandora Makes Demands of the People of St. Louis”
  22.  “A Little Drunk in Little Rock” — The William and Mary Review Volume 49 (2011)
  23. “The Hive in Ann Arbor”
  24.  “Slowdown in Motown” — Untamed Ink Volume 3 (2010).
  25.  “The Tenth Circle of Miami” — The Binnacle (Spring 2011)
  26. “The Wet Lands of Florida” — Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley Volume 12.1 (2012)
  27. “A Lone Star Stomachache” — Splash of Red (December 14, 2009)
  28.  “The American Legends of Iowa 80 Truck Stop” — Epiphany (Fall/Winter 2011-2012); Kerouac’s Dog Magazine (pending)
  29. “Brother and Sister in Baraboo” — Verse Wisconsin Issue 105 (March 2011)
  30. “States” — Ann Arbor Review Issue 10 (Spring 2012)
  31. “Chiron in Los Angeles” — Calliope Nerve (April 15, 2010)
  32.  “Thirteen Ways of Looking by a Black Bird” A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens anthology (Green Poet Press, 2011)
  33.  “Wondertwin Cities Powers, Activate!” — G.W. Review Volume 32, Number 1 (Fall 2010)
  34. “The Wave of the Wichita Wedding” — The Literary Bohemian Issue 13 (September 2011)
  35.  “School Trip to the Vegas Strip” — Children Churches and Daddies Volume 211 (August 2010)
  36. “Spring Break in Omaha” — Apocryphaltext Volume 4 (2011)
  37.  “Rocky Mountain Low” — Slant: A Journal of Poetry Volume 25 (Summer 2011)
  38.  “The Ongoing Battle Between the States” — ZYZZYVA Volume 26, Number 3 (Winter 2010)
  39. “The Man from Montana” — BathHouse Hypermedia Journal Volume 8.2 (July 2011)
  40.  “The Forgotten City Explored in Action Squad Teal! #583” — Arroyo Literary Review Volume 4 (Spring 2012)
  41.  “Sestina in Seattle” — Compass Rose Number 10 (May 2010)
  42. “The Woman from Wyoming” — The Mayo Review (2011)
  43. santa clara rev “The New Gods of Utah” — Santa Clara Review Volume 97, Issue 2.
  44. “Oklahoma Prison Sous-Chefs” (as “Oklahoma Prison Cookhounds”) — The Chaffey Review Volume 5 (Spring 2011)
  45. a cappella zoo anthology “Leaving La Dulce Vida” (as “Leaving La Dulce”) — A cappella Zoo Issue 7 (Fall 2011), reprinted in Bestiary: The Best of A cappella Zoo Issue 10 (Spring 2013)
  46.  “Feasting on Peanuts in Phoenix” — The Mayo Review (2011)
  47.  “Signs at the End of the Road” — Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts Volume 9 (2010)
  48.  “Honeymoon Suite in Honolulu” — Confrontation Number 105/106 (Winter 2009/Spring 2010)
  49.  “The Desert of Puerto Rico” — Kestrel Issue 26 (Spring 2011); California Quarterly Volume 37, Number 1 (2011)
  50.  “In That Place Down the Way From This Other Place” — Arroyo Literary Review Volume 4 (Spring 2012)

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