We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston Bachelard
Poetry
“Bagpipe Parade, NYC, 11 September 2002,” Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath, Press 53, 2021
“Daily Poems from the First 40 Days of the Pandemic,” Raw Data: Living in the Fallout from the Coronavirus, September 2020
Call and Response Round 2, Shoebox PR, April 2020
To keep artists in community during mandatory stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, Shoebox PR created a virtual call-and-response project. I was paired with Los Angeles artist, Bibi Davidson. We spent two weeks sending art and poetry back and forth, each of us inspired by the other.
“In Its Distance,” Prime Number Magazine, Issue 131, April-June 2018
[Reprint] “Where I Don’t Live,” Verse Daily, March 4, 2018
“In Parentheses,” Literary Mama, November 2014
“What Binds Us,” Cream City Review, Spring/Summer Issue, June 2011
“Disconnected,” Strong Verse, July 2010
“Muse,” Strong Verse, July 2010
“Spring Cleaning in Winter,” Strong Verse, July 2010
“Any Good Reason,” Strong Verse, July 2010
“Where I Don’t Live,” Connotation Press, March 2010
“Dead Files,” Connotation Press, March 2010
“Physicality of Learning,” Connotation Press, March 2010
“Foundation,” Connotation Press, March 2010
Essays
Pandemic Art Studio Photo Essay #4, art and cake, January 2021
“Where Are We Going After This?,” Barely South Review, Spring 2019
“A Writing Manifesto,” Bite My Manifesto, 31 Dec. 2012
7 Deadly Sins of the Writing Life: Essay series at Hunger Mountain, Fall 2012
- Introduction
- Envy by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
- Sloth
Lust by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith - Gluttony
Greed by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith - Wrath by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
- Pride
“What It’s Like Living Here,” Numero Cinq Magazine, February 2011
Articles
“Studio In A Suitcase,” Vermont College of Fine Arts Newsletter, Winter 2012
“Modern and Made by Hand,” Architects + Artisans, 20 Dec. 2010
“Painting to Create a Community,” Architects + Artisans, 10 Dec. 2010
“Ali Cavenaugh and the Female Form,” Architects + Artisans, 22 Nov. 2010
“A Vanishing Oasis at City’s Edge,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 15 Nov. 2010
“Carolina’s Vanishing Tobacco Barns,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 01 Nov. 2010
“A Life in Landscape Architecture,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 26 Oct. 2010
“Ligon Flynn, FAIA, 1931-2010,” Architects + Artisans, 25 Oct. 2010
“Art as Life Journey,” Architects + Artisans, 20 Oct. 2010
“In Asheville, Sketching in 3-D,” Architects + Artisans, 19 Oct. 2010
