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Conjunctions, Four Poems from Still: Still Life with Dysphonia; Still Life with Cusco: Cochineal and Zapata's Last Supper; Still Life with Phantom Crane Fly and Vanity Mirror; Still, with Trip

Boston Review: Still Life with January (from Still)

Poetry Society of America Annual Awards, Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari (from An Ecology of Elsewhere)

​Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day, Why Items Tend to Shift in Flight (from An Ecology of Elsewhere)

Connotation Press, Three Poems from Road Scatter: New Year; Shadow Portrait; Postflight Edema

Conjunctions, Three Poems from Road Scatter: Healing By Secondary Intention; On Vengeance; New Construction

Verse Daily/The Southern Review: Columba livia (from Road Scatter)

Poetry, Coma (from Biogeography)

Verse Daily, Idolum Naturae Magnum: A Meditation (from Biogeography)

Agni Online: Balancing Acts (from Burn)

Verse Daily, Tillandsia Usneoides (from Burn)

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Launch of An Ecology of Elsewhere: Berry College, April 2016 (62-minutes, with reading and discussion)

A Seat in the Shade: The University of Georgia, 2014 (60-minutes, with reading and discussion)

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From Still (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2020):

Still Life with Damnosa Hereditas and Dark Constellations

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From An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea Books, May 2016):

Acacia karroo Hayne (White Thorn)

Skeleton Coast

Kill

Welwitschia mirabilis, Namib Desert

Protea lepidocarpodendron (Black-Bearded Protea)




From Road Scatter (Persea Books, 2012):

Cumulative Sentence

Last Rites



From Biogeography (Tupelo Press, 2008):

Coma

Grounding

Courantijn River



From Burn (2005):

The Kitchen

Tillandsia Usneoides

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From Nomadic Foundations (2002):

The Road To

Half Life