Bibliography

Books


  • Persons Unknown, forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press, October 2010.
  • A Murmuration of Starlings, Southern Illinois University Press, 2008; winner of the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry.
  • Murder Ballads, Elixir Press, 2005.


  • Poems


  • "Double Negatives" at ConnotationPress.com
  • Two poems at Anti- (Finalist for the 2008 Sundress Best of the Net)
  • "A Field Guide To Northeast Alabama" (four poems on video) at Southern Spaces
  • "At Liberty" and "Love"at Memorious
  • "The Crowd He Becomes" at DIAGRAM
  • "At Genesse," "Aubade," "DeSoto, After," and "In Arizona When Howard Finster Dies" at Diode
  • Selections from A Map of the County at RealPoetik
  • "At Liberty," "Substantiation," "For Reverend James Reeb," and "For Lamar Smith" at Blackbird
  • "Bunk Richardson," "Consolation," "On Tallaseehatchee Creek," and "Vigil" at Blackbird
  • "Vigil," "Negatives," and "Elegy for James Knox" at Campbell Corner
  • "Walt Whitman in Alabama," "Hush," "Negatives" and "York" at Colorado Poets Center
  • "Signal" at DIAGRAM
  • "Elegy for James Knox" at DIAGRAM
  • "Interferometry" at Greensboro Review
  • "Aubade," "Doppler," "What You Wish For," "Under," "Fell," "Heat," and "Regret/Egret" at H_NGM_N
  • "Legba Says" in Octopus
  • "Still" and "Bye Bye Blackbird/Blackbird Bye Bye" at Shampoo
  • "Panoramic: Landscape With Repeating Figures," "Double Exposure" and "Elegy for Little Girls" at Terrain.org
  • "Virga," "Radiotherapy," and "Diphthong" at Typo
  • "Radiotherapy" at Poetry 365.


  • Interviews


  • With Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
  • With New South
  • With Blackbird, in text and audio.
  • With Kate Greenstreet (first book interview)
  • With Dislocate's Nate Slawson
  • With Town Creek Poetry


  • Reviews


  • Ron Slate's review of A Murmuration of Starlings
  • Bruce Alford's review of A Murmuration of Starlings for the Alabama Writers Forum
  • Microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings at Yalobusha Review
  • Simmons Buntin's microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings
  • Susan Settlemyre Williams's review of Murder Ballads at Blackbird
  • Simmons Buntin's review of Murder Ballads at Terrain.org.
  • Clay Matthews's review of Murder Ballads at H_NGM_N
  • Jeff Newberry's review of Murder Ballads at Poetry Southeast


  • Essays &c

  • "The Marrow of the Bone of Contention: A Barbecue Journal" at storySouth, a 2003 Arts & Letters Daily Article of Note
  • An introduction to Alabama barbecue, on the Southern BBQ Trail at the Southern Foodways Alliance
  • "Recovery: Learning the Music of History" at Terrain.org
  • Five favorite poems at JMWW
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