Essays, Poems, and Photography
Essays
“A Solemn Christmas in Asheville, Three Months after Hurricane Helene,” photo essay, National Catholic Reporter, December 24, 2024
“Philadelphia Eleven’s Piccard Made History, First as a Pilot, Then as a Priest,” National Catholic Reporter, July 26, 2024.
“Carter Heyward’s New Book Calls Out Sins of White Christian Nationalism.” National Catholic Reporter, November 4, 2022.
“Philadelphia 11 Reunion Recalls Ministry of Pioneering Women Priests.” National Catholic Reporter, November 25, 2019.
“A Worn Sole.” My story appeared in Hashtag Queer Creative Anthology, Volume 1, in 2017. You can order the anthology here.
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” : An AR-15 Christmas, Patheos, December 2016 (see Morgan Guyton’s blog “Mercy Not Sacrifice.”
“That Little Blue Boy.” Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, 2013.
Poems
“silver bells,” Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2025, haiga, forthcoming
“Portrait of a Young Artist,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haibun, forthcoming
“Eden’s Memory,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga, forthcoming
“storm clouds,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga, forthcoming
“cotton candy,” MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2025, haiga, forthcoming
“Ashes to Ashes,” Contemporary Haibun, December 2024
“midwinter,” Triveni Spotlight, featured haiku, February 25, 2024
“sundown,” Contemporary Haibun, August 2023, haiga, Marion Post Wolcott photographer
“spring,” Contemporary Haibun, August 2023, haiga, Jack Delano photographer
“autumn winds,” chosen for inclusion by the North Carolina Haiku Society for the Pittsboro Gallery of Arts’ exhibit “Tandem: Art and Poetry in Motion,” June 2023, haiku
“new year,” chosen as a featured artwork in the Sonic Boom VISPO contest, July 2023, haiga
“final bell,” Contemporary Haibun Online, December 2022, haiga
“nightfall,” Contemporary Haibun Online, December 2022, haiga
“Stripped,” Modern Haiku, Summer 2022 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 18, best of series for 2022), haibun
“flying,” Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2022 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 18, best of series for 2022), haiga
“depression,” Contemporary Haibun Online, August 2022, haiga
“chimera,” Cafe Haiku, 2022, Dream issue, haiga
“Godspeed,” Sonic Boom, December 2021 (chosen for publication in Contemporary Haibun 17, best of series for 2021), haibun
“auld lang syne,” failed haiku, January 2022, haiga
“pier,” Frogpond, Winter 2021, haiku
“northern winds,” Presence, 71, November 2021, haiku
“November sun,” Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-2022, haiga
“Celestial Empire,” the museum of americana, Issue 23, found poem
“Evening Primrose,” Under the Basho, July 28, 2020, with Janine Lehane
“after the storm,” Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2020, haiku
Photographs
Lagoon · San Antonio Review (Volume 7.2 | Winter 2024),
Appalachian Solstice · San Antonio Review (Volume 7.2 | Winter 2024)
Three Sisters · San Antonio Review (Volume 7.2 | Winter 2024)
“Tea Cup: Appalachian Fair,” Meat for Tea, Volume 18, Issue 4.