In the blink of an eye I went from a prodigy publishing poems
and short stories as an undergraduate to a late bloomer getting my first book published in my forties. Life’s funny that way.
My articles, jokes, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including The Airgonaut, Alien Buddha Zine, All Music Guide, The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Appalachian Journal, Arts Indiana, The Bark, The Beatnik Cowboy, Black Bough (Wales), The Blue Mountain Review, Blues Revue, The Broken Spine Artist Collective (England), BULL, The Caterpillar (Ireland), The Chattahoochee Review, Chautauqua Journal, Cholla Needles, City Pages, Clementine Poetry Journal, Communication Arts, Conduit, Cowboy Jamboree, CutBank, Daily Drunk Magazine, Dark Mountain (England), Amazon.com’s Day One, The Drabble, The Dylan Thomas Birthplace Podcast (Wales), 8 Poems, The Ekphrastic Review, Elephant Journal, elimae, The Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Floyd County Moonshine, Flying Island, Forklift Ohio, The Freshwater Review, Friday Flash Fiction, Gigantic, Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Good Men Project, Great Walks (Australia), Guitar World Acoustic, Gulf Coast, Heavy Feather Review, Hobart, Hoosier Noir, Hoot, Hunter’s Affects, Indiana Voice, Juked, KAXE Northern Community Public Radio, Kentucky Review, Knockout, KNOW Minnesota Public Radio, Lake Country Journal, Lowbrow Reader, Lowestoft Chronicle, MarketingProfs.com, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, METRO, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Mid-American Review, Midwestern Gothic, Milk Magazine, Minnesota Monthly, Minnesota Playlist, The Missouri Review, Monkeybicycle, The Moth (Ireland), Mountain Gazette, The Museum of Americana, Mystery Tribune, New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place, New Verse News, Noon, Not Deer Magazine, ONE ART, Open Mouse (Scotland), Opium, Paper Darts, Paragraph Planet, Peter O’Toole (Canada), Phoebe, Poem Alone, Poem Today, Poetry Catalog, Poetry City USA, Prine Primed, PRØOF, Publishers Weekly, Pulp Adventures, Punk Noir, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi, The Rake, Rattle, The Raw Art Review, Red Headed Writing, Revolution John, Revolver, RHINO, Scribes*MICRO*Fiction, Secrets of the City, Sense & Sensibility, Sequestrum, Seventeen, Shotgun Honey, So It Goes, Southern Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Spry Literary Journal, Squeaky Clean Comedy, Stone Poetry Quarterly (SPQ), Strange Horizons, Switchblade, Sycamore Review, Tales from the Forest, Texas Wind, THIS, Thriller Magazine, Travelin’ Thru Townes, Two Hawks Quarterly, Unleash Lit, Urthona (New Zealand), Uut Poetry, Verdad, WalkerArt.org, Western Humanities Review, The Whisky Blot, Wild Sound Festival, WQRT 99.1 FM and The Writer.
My spoken-word album Hobo Radio features original banjo and guitar improvisations by Charlie Parr.
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