Selected Articles, Essays & poems

Timecave: On Aging, Trypophobia, and Death A meditation on Beatriz Flamini's “Timecave,” mothers & daughters, the aging female body, holes, and death: A limited-edition booklet published by HEXENTEXTE; read

“Ode to the Classroom” published in Diode Poetry: read

“The Real Witches of Simi Valley” In a conservative California suburb, a group of goddesses is spreading radical love: published in Alta Journal; read

“Grocery List for Resistance” In Los Angeles, a network of women has organized food deliveries for immigrant families afraid to leave their homes: published in Alta Journal; read

“Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy” published in LitHub; read

“The Obscene Literature Teacher” Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship: published in Alta; read

 “Tiger" published in poets.org; read

“I Dream of Tiger” published in the Blood Orange Review; read

“The Felons” published in Pank Magazine; read

“The Self as Sediment” review of Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train: published in the LA Review of Books; read

“Body Oracle” published in Barrelhouse Magazine; read

“Civilian” published in TriQuarterly; read

“On Being a West Coast Poet” published in The Los Angeles Review; read

“To Obscure a Body Of Light” published in No Tell Motel; read

“Outer Space” published in No Tell Motel; read

“My Burgher Dollhouse” published in No Tell Motel; read