As corny as this may sound, I write because I have to. Beyond prizes and publication, it's one of those things I do to face the person I see when shaving. A way of making peace with the Man in the Mirror.

The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana (White Pine Press, 2006), Any One Man (Bottom Dog Press, 1992), Boy in a Boat (University of Alabama Press, 1986)

The Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife (Pudding House Publications, 2009), Funerals in the South (Pudding House Publications, 2008), Woman & Alligator: The Florida Poems (Pudding House Publications, 2007), Strange Privacies (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2006), Bentley Hotel (Pudding House Publications, 2005), Greatest Hits: 1980-2001 (Pudding House Publications, 2002), Reparation (Pudding House Publications, 2001), The Edge of Heaven (Bottom Dog Press, 1988), The Way into Town (Signpost Press, 1984)

American Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Florida Review, Indiana Review, Laurel Review, Margie, Mid-American Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, New Virginia Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Ohio Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Sou'wester, Southern Review