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Selected Poems:

2023:
HAD, “My Students Read My Chart to Me” and “I Was Not Prepared for This Val Kilmer Documentary
Drunk Monkeys, “When Macaulay Culkin Was the World’s Biggest Star
Ploughshares, “Speechless” and “A Man I Didn’t Sleep with Asked What Word Defined Me” 

2022:
The Ilanot Review, “Two poems

2021:
West Trestle Review, “Duplex for My Future Self
Rogue Agent, “It’s Not My Mother’s Fault
Drunk Monkeys: “For Felicity” and “Mother Sestina

2020:
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, “Karaoke Night, JB’s Bar and Grill”
Pleiades, “AA Abecedarian
SWWIM, “Abecedarian for My Neighbor, Whose Name I Still Don’t Know” (Nominated for the 2020 Orison Anthology)

2019:
Sidereal, “From My Parked Car, I Stare at the Snow”
One, “Trying to Pray”

2018:
Whale Road Review, “Elegy for Slasher Movie Victims”
Broadsided Press, “Neighbors”  (Nominated for 2018 Best of the Net)
Rise Up Review“New Billboard in Winston-Salem Proclaims ‘Real Men Provide, Real Women Appreciate It'”

2017:
Broadsided Press, “Backyard” (Winner of the 2017 Switcheroo)
Rattle, “The Woman and the Wolf”  (Winner of the April 2017 Ekphrastic Challenge: Artist’s Choice)

2016:
Whale Road Review“Donating My Eggs”
3Elements Review“Watching Casablanca at Oma and Opa’s House” (Nominated for 2016 Best of the Net)
Valparaiso Poetry Review, “Being Human”
Rust + Moth, “A Postcard to My Husband While I Vacation in California”

Press:

Gabino Iglesias, PANK, Review of Green
Courtney LeBlanc, EIC of Riot in Your Throat, Interview
Riot in Your Throat, Announcement
Julie Ramon, Guest Blogger for Poetry MattersInterview
Chris Rice Cooper, Creator of the Backstory of the Poem Series, Interview
Miranda Ericsson, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Page, Review and Interview
Broadsides to Books, Review of A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky
River City Poetry, Review of A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky
Paper Nautilus Press, “Announcing the 2017 Chapbook Contest Winners”
2017 Kansas Notable Books
2016 Kansas Notable Books
Andra Bryan Stefanoni, The Joplin Globe“A Tale of Two Writers”
Andra Bryan Stefanoni, The Joplin Globe, “Ghost Signs Abound in Pittsburg”
J.T. Knoll, The Morning Sun, Ghost Sign: Words on the Walls of Time
Michael Stavola, The Morning Sun“Pittsburg Author Recognized”
Jesse Brown, The Morning Sun“PHS Teacher Wins Poetry Award”
Megan Munger, The Booster ReduxWhile the Kettle’s On: Johnson Publishes First Poetry Book”