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Poems:
"Life Imitating Art"
and
"I Can't Do Anything About It, But I Keep Trying"
in
Stickman Review
"Role Playing"
in
West Trade Review
"God Answers Knee Mail," "Stop, Drop, and Roll Won't Work in Hell," "Choose the Bread of Life Or You Are Toast," and "Looking for a Sign From God? This Might Be It"
in
Pomona Valley Review
"New Wine in Old Wineskins"
in
Masque and Spectacle
"Apocalypses"
in
Prairie Wolf Review
"Together"
in
Golden Walkman
(with audio)
"We are all damaged, it seems." and "Home, Again"
in
minor literature[s]
"Did He Say, 'Wrapped Up Like a Douche?'"
in
South 85
"Carrying the One"
in
The East Bay Review
"Orienting Response"
and
"404 Page Not Found"
in
Coe Review
"Resignation"
in
Profane
(with audio)
"Lucky Charms"
in
Pine Hills Review
"Let He Who Is Without"
in
Vending Machine Press
"Neophiliac"
in
Gravel
"Jack's Co-Worker in the Corner Cubicle Brought Her Worries to Work"
in
All Roads Will Lead You Home
"And Our Instruments Aren't Calibrated Correctly, Either," "It's the Little Things That Matter," and "Selective Association"
at
Brickplight
"Changing the Channel," "Jack Wonders What Happened to Compuserve," "Resistentialism," and "The Ring of My Rotary Phone Always Annoys Guests"
at
Technoculture
"What You See Is Not What You Get"
at
Punchnel's
"Jack Imagines a Different Map"
at
Spry Literary Journal
"I'm a Very Good Driver, As Well" and "After the Fact"
at
Jet Fuel Review
"Jack Talks Trade-In," Jack is Quick, Narrowly Avoids Death," and "Jack is Rudely Awakened"
at
Map Literary
"Jack Sees Clearly in the Dark" and "Jack Considers Dessert"
at
The Milo Review
"Jack Listens to the Language People Use"
at
Rappahannock Review
"Exsibilation"
and
"Mustering Storks"
at
south85
"Jack Hears What We Can and Cannot Carry"
at
Red Earth Review
"The First Sunday of Advent"
at
Chapter 16
"Jack Does Not Play Games, Anymore," "Jack's Every Day Life," "Jack Wants a Mnemonic Device for Life," "Grasping Hand," and "Jack Watches a Co-Worker Keep It Together"
at
drafthorse
"Let He Who is Without"
at
The Byron Herbert Reece Society
's webpage (I was runner-up in their contest)
"Last Days"
at
Barely South Review
"Spiritual Exercises"
at
Barely South Review
, a new journal from
Old Dominion University
"Scouge"
at
Bare Root Review
, a journal from
Southwest Minnesota State University
"Heterophemize"
at
Everyday Poems
"There Are Rules"
at
FutureCycle Poetry
"Diagramming Won't Help This Situation"
at
The Writer's Almanac
Interviews:
The Mockingbird
Blotterature
The Rappahannock Review
Poets' Quarterly
Essays and Reviews:
NewPages
Book Reviews
Solrad
(Book Reviews)
:
Rutu Modan's
Tunnels
Aisha Frank's
Work-Life Balance
Emma Grove's
The Third Person
Leslie Stein's
Brooklyn's Little Secret
Deena Mohamad's
Shubeik Lubeik
Paul B. Rainey's
Why Don't You Love Me?
Sabba Khan's
What is Home, Mum?
Jordan Crane's
Keeping Two
Luke Healy's
The Con Artists
Elodie Durand's
Parenthesis
Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer's
Flung Out of Space
Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Alex Frith, and Daniel Locke's
Two Heads
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's
The Waiting
Rhea Ewing's
Fine
Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu's
Shadow Life
Anneli Furmark's
Walk Me to the Corner
Soapberry Review
:
Review of Jenny Tinghui Zhang's
Four Treasures of the Sky
Review of Jessamine Chan's
The School for Good Mothers
The Headlight Review
:
"In Her Own Time"
Susurrus
:
"I Am What I Ate: Foods From My Childhood 2"
io Literary Journal
:
"Avoid Destiny, or, I'm Not Sure I Made the Right Choices"
Still
:
"I Am What I Ate: Foods From My Childhood 1"
Dead Mule School of Literature
:
"I Was So White"
Hamline Lit Link:
"Sharing a Laugh While Reading
Heart of Darkness
"
Burnt Pine:
"Self-Preservation"
storySouth:
"KV and Me"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
:
"Behavior Problems (Not Only Among Students)"
"Living in a Different World"
"Going Backstage in Students' Lives"
"A Post-Tenure Review"
"The Treadmill of Tenure"
(under a pseudonym)
InsideHigherEd.com
:
"Lessons From a Bad Semester"
"The End Is Not Near"
"More Than One Place to Look"
"Don't Phone It In"
"An Alternative Path to Teaching"
"Interviewing at an Independent School"
"Lacking the Mission(ary) Zeal"
"It's Not Programmed Into Our Cells"
"Why I Attend Small Conferences"
"Making a Perfect Match"
"What Professors Want From Editors and Peer Reviewers"
Academe
:
"That's Not What Happened to Me"
(and here's a
guest blog
I wrote to go along with the article)
"Writing What I Want in a Publish-or-Perish World"
The Teaching Professor
:
"Don't Waste the First Day of Class"
"Quick Feedback, Engaged Students"
"Teaching Research and Writing Skills: Not Just For Introductory Courses"
Teacher-Scholar
:
"A Different Connection Between Teaching and Research"
(also includes audio version)
Eclectica
:
"Trapped in Our Cells"
"Why I Don't Write"
"In Praise of the Rut"
"Songs, Poems, and Missing the Point Completely"
"I Was a Teenage Fundamentalist"
Diverse Voices Quarterly
:
"Just What Kind of Loser Am I?"
"Men, Body Image, and the Stupid Things We Do to Ourselves"
"Two Poems and Small Comforts"
Poets' Quarterly
"What I Learned as a Literary Journal Reader"
ASEBL Journal
:
"Stealing Souls"
Teaching American Literature
:
"Time May Not Be On Our Side"
College Quarterly
:
"Think Students Are Technologically Savvy? Control-Alt-Delete That Idea"
Fried Chicken and Coffee
:
"Treet, Trash, and Pride: Finding Out What It Means for Me to Be Southern
Foliate Oak
“I’m Not Dead Yet”
Fiction:
"Games We Once Played"
in
Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal
"Stickman"
in
Crack the Spine
"The Bar on Baker Street"
in
Lazy Day Writing
"Cross-Cultural Communication"
in
Marathon Literary Review