Public Poetry Collection

This is a subset of my poems that I hope is “suitable” for the public eye–there is much more, though I am cautious about linking it here. Do ask if you’d like more of this, though. I always enjoy discussing poetry, especially my own, as well as other related things :)

I wanted to start a running list of poems I’d written and liked, so that’s what I’m going to do here. Many of them are personal, some somewhat explicit, more of them than not still works in progress, so probably don’t read through if you came to this website from a research/career setting. The main idea was to have an easy way to point friends and loved ones to particular poems I’d written that I want to share with them, and as some sort of record for myself. Also in large part inspired by Frank O’Hara’s “My Heart”. Not particularly ordered, but somewhat chronological. As I wrote on my substack recently, I am not wedded to anything I write, anything I do, anyone I am. As such, do not try to use me against me.

Here is also an anthology I compiled during Spring 2022, that contains several of my poems along with others in a somewhat cohesive and thematic manner, plus some analysis, in case you feel so inclined: Poetry Anthology: Having a Poem with You

Also, a short story I wrote for a creative fiction course during winter 2023:

“Blindsided”

And now, just poems:

“An Oat to Milk”

“If we are to break, can we at least continue to break?”

“The summer of my loneliness,”

“That’s one small step for man”

“Litany of Words I’ll Not Say”

“tell them we’re young mastodons”

"”ablate”, New Year’s Day”

“Salty Linings Playbook”

“Whittling Haiku”