All poems contained in these pages remain copyrighted by their original authors unless otherwise noted.
Here are some links to favorite contemporary poems of mine. I don't control content on any of the pages linked.
"Cash at Folsom" by Seth Abramson (Linebreak)
"Bill Fowler's Pointer Hears a Voice" by Daniel Anderson (The Cincinnati Review)
"Each Day" by Aaron Anstett (Thieves Jargon)
"Colorado" by Jeffery Bahr (POOL)
"The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice" by Mary Jo Bang (The Paris Review)
"Love and Smoke" by Hadara Bar-Nadav (Beloit Poetry Journal)
"The Field" by Sandra Beasley (Pebble Lake Review)
"Mosey Is as Mosey Goes" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont (POOL)
"Downdraft" by Mary Biddinger (Memorious)
"Kenny Roebuck's Knuckle Curve" by David Bottoms (The Kenyon Review)
"The Idiot's Guide to Faking Your Own Death and Moving to Mexico" by Jason Bredle (Columbia Poetry Review)
"Joyce" by Joel Brouwer (The Cortland Review)
"Track 5: Summertime" by Jericho Brown (The Iowa Review)
"Reading an Ex Lover’s First Novel" by Ashley Capps (Post Road)
"Commencement Address: The Institute of Convoluted Speech" by Jon Davis (The New Hampshire Review)
"Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking About Sex, Reflect upon Her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet" by Olena Kalytiak Davis (Tin House)
"The Unbosoming" by Olena Kalytiak Davis (Ploughshares)
"Things That Get Out of Hand" by Paul Dickey (Swink)
"Ten Qualities as a Cosmo Girl I Really Want in My Man" by Denise Duhamel (Gargoyle)
"Epistolary" by Jill Alexander Essbaum (42opus)
"Design for the Costume of a Minor Divinity" by Kathy Fagan (Pilot)
"Body and Soul" by B. H. Fairchild (Southern Poetry Review)
"Boss Crashes the Party" by Noah Falck (Word for/Word)
"Poem without Free Will" by Elisa Gabbert (Coconut)
"Poker Players" by Kate Gale (Valparaiso Poetry Review)
"How to Discard the Life You've Now Ruined" by Lara Glenum (Octopus)
"Life is Happy" by Albert Goldbarth (Boulevard)
"The Naked" by Paul Guest (Crazyhorse)
"How to Survive on Land & Sea" by Shafer Hall (Octopus)
"The Girl Who Became a Tom Waits Song" by Annalynn Hammond (DIAGRAM)
"Tatterdemalion" by Francine J. Harris (Boxcar Poetry Review)
"Dinna' Pig" by Matthea Harvey (Forklift, Ohio)
"MJ Fan Letter #782" by Terrance Hayes (West Branch)
"Red Alert" by Lois Beebe Hayna (The Evansville Review)
"Betty" by Jennifer Michael Hecht (H_NGM_N)
"Self help" by Bob Hicok (Black Warrior Review)
"Empty Room Blues" by H. L. Hix (The Melic Review)
"Honeymoon" by Rebecca Hoogs (The Laurel Review)
"How to Listen" by Major Jackson (The New Yorker)
"Ground Swell" by Mark Jarman (Indiana Review)
"Next Tuesday" by Jesse Lee Kercheval (New England Review)
"Dart" by Dore Kiesselbach (Redivider)
"Auto Salvage" by Ted Kooser (The Hudson Review) (PDF file)
"Dedicatory Letter" by Andrew Kozma (Pebble Lake Review)
"Angel Shark" by Hailey Leithauser (The American Poetry Journal)
"Mad Lib Elegy" by Ben Lerner (Fascicle)
"Safe From Trains" by Ada Limon (Blackbird)
"Olduvai Gorge Thorn Tree" by Sarah Lindsay (Rhino)
"The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu (River Styx)
"Rash" by Rebecca Loudon (Avatar Review)
"Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech (Columbia Poetry Review)
"Small Ending" by Dora Malech (Chelsea)
"52" by Sarah Manguso (MiPOesias)
"Not Let Across the Hood Canal" by J. W. Marshall (FIELD)
"Song of the Powers" by David Mason (The Sewanee Review)
"22 Minutes" by Frank Matagrano (Cimarron Review)
"Equality" by Adrian Matejka (Sou'wester) (PDF file)
"Good" by Jeffrey McDaniel (Spork)
"The Boys from Brewer Bottoms" by Jo McDougall (Natural Bridge)
"Gymnosperm" by Gary L. McDowell (No Tell Motel)
"Midwest Still-Life" by Karyna McGlynn (TYPO)
"Phoenix" by Campbell McGrath (New American Writing)
"The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello (Gulf Coast)
"Street Fight" by Wayne Miller (Barn Owl Review)
"You Can See How the Waves" by Michael Milligan (AGNI)
from Liner Notes by Andrew Mister (/nor)
"Semaphore" by Sarah Murphy (New England Review)
"Small Murders" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Shenandoah)
"A Mistake" by Michael Palmer (Cue)
"February Flu" by John Poch (The Paris Review)
"Deep Sea Dantesca" by Carol Quinn (The National Poetry Review)
"Love crushed us with its big death truck" by Andrew Michael Roberts (Harpur Palate) (PDF file)
"I'm Not Carlos" by Zachary Schomburg (Fence)
"Mannequins" by David Shumate (Mid-American Review)
"I've Been Working on the Railroad" by Jeffrey Skinner (Slate)
"Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings (32 Poems)
"Cuckoo" by Larissa Szporluk (Bat City Review)
"Homage to Tom Andrews" by Matthew Thorburn (Blackbird)
"Here, Bullet" by Brian Turner (Georgia Review)
"Some Promise" by Jen Tynes (42 Opus)
"Sonnet" by Karen Volkman (Ploughshares)
"Puck" by Kayoko Wakamatsu (The Iowa Review)
"The Little Man in the Fire Hates Me" by G. C. Waldrep (Ploughshares)
"Still Life with all the Animals" by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Meridian) (PDF File)
"Pointing at Things at a Rest Stop" by Jon Woodward (absent)
"Exile" by Ryo Yamaguchi (Hayden's Ferry Review) (PDF file)
"Elegy for James Knox" by Jake Adam York (DIAGRAM)
"Sepsis" by C. Dale Young (Virginia Quarterly Review)
"Luciferin" by Dean Young (Poetry)