BOOKS
My first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was selected by Gerald Stern for the Akron Poetry Prize and published by the University of Akron Press. I am at work on a second collection entitled The FOReSt.
With the poet Allison Titus, I am co-editing an animal poetry anthology and manifesto, THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE, which will be published by Trinity University Press in 2025.
SELECTED POEMS
The Poet on the Poem: “Kindly” + commentary at The Dewdrop, 2024.
Three poems in The Glacier, Winter 2023.
Eight poems in The Glacier, Winter 2022.
“Kindly” from the American Poetry Review, 2011.
Featured poet at Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets, 2011
5 poems in Boston Review’s Poet’s Sampler, introduced by Graham Foust.
“Inside Facts” in the American Poetry Review, 2006.
ESSAYS ON ART
“The Color of Sound,” on Paul Klee
in Watercolor Artist
“Gold Standard,” on Gustav Klimt
in Watercolor Artist
“Student of Light,” on Sam Francis
in Watercolor Artist
“Radiant Attention,” on Maurice Prendergast in Watercolor Artist
Animals, AGRICULTURE, AND CLIMATE
“We Save What We Love: Thoughts on Biophilia and the Vegan Ethic”
“Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones”
“Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood or Slaughter”
Read more of my articles for Free from Harm here.
Read some of my writing for A Well-Fed World here.
I have been a lead writer and researcher for numerous campaigns focused on food and agriculture, including Humane Facts, the EcoFood Guide, and Grazing Facts, a collaboration with the Center for Biological Diversity.
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