Poems
“Big Bang, with Sternutation and Seer Stones.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 176–7
“Goddess Looking Up.” Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, edited by Karin Anderson and Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, Torrey House Press, 2021, p. 328.
“Collect for a Late-Winter Gulp.” Irreantum, vol. 17, no. 2, Winter 2020/Spring 2021. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize.)
“Psalter for the Eternal Mother” and “Our Lady of the Unicorn Blanket-Cape.” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol.59, no. 3, 2020, pp. 44–45, 186. (Placed First and Third, respectively, in the 2020 Clinton F. Larson Poetry Contest.) (Readings for BYU Studies Podcast: “Psalter” / “Our Lady”)
“On Cherubim and a Flaming Sword by J. Kirk Richards” and “Talitha koum.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 51, no. 4, 2018, pp. 165–67.
“Scold’s Bridle.” Irreantum, vol. 16, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2018.
“Litany, with Birdsong and an Antique Quilt.” Handed Down and Altered, collaborative art book/exhibition curated by J. Kirk Richards, July 2018. (After Wise Blood by Page Turner.)
“I think the sky may be a woman—,” “Goddess looking up,” “Goddess dreaming of her temple in the woods,” “Goddess in Repose,” “Goddess choosing her fruit,” and “Goddess stirring something up.” Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry, Peculiar Pages, 2018. (Selection made by Dayna Patterson and Martin Pulido.)
“Fruit.” antiBODY: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine, edited by Calvin Olsen, March 2018.
“You Cherubim—.” Psaltery & Lyre, 14 August 2017.
“This poem is not the seer stone—.” Immediate Present, edited by Laura Allred Hurtado, Mormon Arts Center, 2017.
“Uncertain Repast.” Psaltery & Lyre, 15 May 2017.
“A Thing Like Death.” Psaltery & Lyre, 17 April 2017.
“Goddess Looking Up,” “Let there be light—,” and “The Kingdom of God.” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 1, 2017, pp. 74, 118, 140.
“When You Kiss Me.” Psaltery & Lyre, 13 February 2017.
“No Botticelli, This—” Psaltery & Lyre, 2 January 2017.
“Leaving Egypt” and “Reprise.” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol.54, no. 1, 2015, pp. 76, 140.
“Koru Sonnets” (six sonnet sequence). Wilderness Interface Zone, 17 February 2014.
“For the Man in the Red Jacket.” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 3, 2013, p. 126.
“{ }.” Likewise Folio, no. 12, August 2013.
“Upon Hearing Elder B—— Bear Witness that ‘Satan is Real’ to a Mormon Congregation the Second Sunday of 2011.” Psaltery & Lyre, 11 October 2012.
“On Crucifixion by J. Kirk Richards.” Psaltery & Lyre, 5 July 2012.
“I once found religion at the dollar store,” “Self Portrait with Closed Eyes,” “Landscape, with a Cricket’s Chirr,” “Litany, with Wings,” and “Pater Noster.” Irreantum, vol.13, no. 2, 2011, pp. 34–45. (Honorable Mention, 2011 Irreantum Poetry Contest.)
“By reason of breakings they purify themselves,” “Fruit,” “On J. Kirk Richards’ Stand of Trees,” “Two Poems on Fatherhood,” and “For the Man in the Red Jacket.” Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets, Peculiar Pages, 2011. (Selection made by Susan Elizabeth Howe.)
“Wayplace.” Black Rock & Sage, no.10, 2011, pp. 56–8.
“Vestment.” Wilderness Interface Zone, 19 April 2011.
“Sestina of Seven Births.” Wilderness Interface Zone, 18 February 2011.
“Mother & Child,” “Reaching for the Hem,” and “Landscape with Figures.” Victorian Violet Press Poetry Journal, no. 5, 2010. (“Mother & Child” nominated for Pushcart Prize.)
“For the Sycamore” and “On Winter Nursing.” Irreantum, vol. 12, no. 1, 2010, pp. 103–6.
“Across the Hokianga.” Wilderness Interface Zone, 27 April 2010.
“Pacific: Mateu, Matem.” Wilderness Interface Zone, 20 April 2010.
“Te Kore.” Wilderness Interface Zone,8 April 2010.
“For the Man in the Red Jacket.” Mormon Artist, no.C1, 2009, p. 6. (Honorable Mention, 2009 Mormon Artist Young Writer’s Contest.)
“Lull” and “Submerged: Two Variations on Serrano’s Piss Christ.” Black Rock & Sage, no. 8, 2009, pp. 70–4. (“Submerged,” Ford Swetnam Prize Winner.)
“Landscape, with Livestock.” Wilderness Interface Zone, 3 April 2009.
“Two Poems on Fatherhood,” “Watching the Sunrise in St. George, Utah,” and “Fourth Month Rosary.” Irreantum, vol. 9, no. 2/vol. 10, no. 1, 2007/2008, pp. 203–8.
“At First.” Salome Magazine, 26 August 2008.
“Figurine,” “As a Grandpa Does His Own,” and “Hudson’s Geese: Reprise.” Irreantum, vol. 8, no. 1, 2006, pp. 97–8.
“Fruit.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol.39, no. 3, 2006, pp. 146–8.