A Lake of Light and Clouds (Press 53, 2014): Full length collection (USA Best Book Award Finalist)

“American Life in Poetry”: “Sponge Bath,” “Hospital Parking Lot,” “Fund Drive,” “My Cousin, Milton,” “New Bathing Suit“

A Sun Inside My Chest (Press 53, 2020): Full length collection (Winner of the 2021 International Book Award for Poetry)

Annals of Internal Medicine: “COPD“

…And Love Anthology: “Frank and Alice”

A Prairie Journal: “Sunflowers”

Artemis Journal: “The Persistence of Memory”

Asheville Poetry Review: “Pearl,” “You”

As It Ought to Be: “Depression”

Atlanta Review: “Lightning Bugs” (Publication Prize Winner, Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition)

Basilica Review: “Rosary”

Bay Leaves: “Bobbing for Apples,” “Topsail Island” (Second Place, Poetry Council of North Carolina James Larkin Pearson Contest for Free Verse),

Becoming the Blue Heron (Press 53, 2017): Full length collection (International Book Awards Finalist)

Between the Lines Cape Fear River Foundation Chapbook 2009 and 2010: “Granny Smith Apple,” “Road Crew,” “Sam White,” “Boogie-Woogie”

Birmingham Arts Journal: “The Penguin“

Blue Fifth Review: “Sleeping Alone“

Boomer Lit: “Nostalgia”

Bop Dead City: “My Cousin, Milton”

Boston Literary Magazine: “Hospital Parking Lot”

Broad River Review: “Seventeen,” “A Mother Laments Her Daughter’s Tattoo,” “Madeline Parmenter,” “Salesman,” “Pixie Cut” (Finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry), “Incident on the Train,” “Waves,” “Solea”(Finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry), “The Letter” (Honorable Mention, 2021 Rash Award in Poetry”

Carolina Woman Magazine: “Searching for Scallop Shells” (Honorable Mention, Carolina Woman Writing Contest) “Kenmore” (Grand Prize Winner, Carolina Woman Writing Contest)

Christian Century: “Geese“

Christian Science Monitor: “Queen Anne’s Lace”

Connotation Press: “Pilar Rioja Dancing in Neil Goldberg’s Studio,” “Tahara” (Finalist, Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition)

Cowboypoetry.com, “El Paso,” “Oak Tree,” “A Rancher Buries His Wife”

Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts: “After the Explosion” (Winner, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize)

Dappled Things: “Rosemary Riding”

Das Literarisch: “Jacqueline with Flowers,” “The Street Walker”

Dead Mule School of Southern Literature: “Smoke and Mirrors,” “Alafair,” “A Day in the Life,” “Golden Years,” “Oak Tree” (Nominated for Best of the Net Award), “Denise and Merle,” “Crystal Clear,” “At the Waffle House,” “Making Cornbread,” “Agnes”

Deep South Magazine: “Movie Night,” “Dragonfly Dance,” “The Old Barn“

Delta Poetry Review: “Alvin and Ila,” “In the Midst of Grief, a Heron”

Dime Show Review: “The Ophthalmology Specialists’ Secondary Waiting Room“

Eclectica: “Things We Should Learn in First Grade,” “Miller Street“

Eunoia Review: “Gulls“

Event Program, East Coast Office of the A21 Campaign: “Orchid” (Winner of the “Poetry for their Freedom” contest with the theme: The Crime of Human Trafficking and the Hope and Restoration of Victims, sponsored by the Center for Women and Where Writers Win)

Explore: “Bear Watching in Katmai National Park”

Flutter: “Back Porch Blues”

Forsyth Woman: “Homecoming”

Foundling Review: “Farmer’s Market,” “7 Eleven”

Fourth & Sycamore: “Free Breakfast,” “Red Dahlia“

Garo: “Black Vultures”

Glass Lyre Press Collateral Damage Anthology: “The Cost of War”

Green Briar Review: “Sixteen,” “Palmist”

Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection: “Fund Drive”

Hektoen International, A Journal of Medical Humanities: “Breast Cancer Suite,” “After the Funeral”

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope: “Angel,” “What Matters”

Imagining Heaven Anthology: “Heaven”

In the Palms of Angels (Press 53, 2011): Full length collection (Nautilus Silver Book Award, Winner for Poetry in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist for the International Book Awards)

Iodine: “Caballero,” “Spider in the Sink,” “Valerie”

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): “Cling Peaches“

KAKALAK: “Suppertime,” “Granny, Dragged by a Cow,” “Mid-November,” “Heron at Mallard Lake,” “Papa’s Chair,” “The Sam White Special”

Latin American Literary Review: “The River of Doubt“

Literary Mama: Mizuko Jizo

Long Story Short: “Pompano,” “Santo Domingo,” “My Daughter’s Hair,” “The Gardener”

Mockingheart Review: “Family Album,” “The Abortion,” “Red Lion”

Mobile Bay Magazine: “Jubilee”

Muse India: “Doves,” “Amsale Salon,” “Woman in Delhi,” “Fox,” “Tulips,” “Orange Butterfly,” “What Women Know“

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) History Program Office News & Notes: “Moon Walk“

Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition Chapbook: “Blind,” “Battered,” “Nannie White” (Winners/Finalists of the International Naziz Hikmet Poetry Competition)

Night Talks New & Selected Poems (Press 53, 2023): Full length collection

North Carolina Literary Review: “Making the Biscuits”

Northwest Cultural Council International Juried Art & Poetry Exhibition 2006 and 2007: “My Father,” “Devotion”

Nibble: “Sponge Bath”

Oak Bend Review: “Young Girl at Walgreens”

O.Henry/Salt: “Sheller,” “Blue Jays,” “The Gray and the Brown,” “When Honeybees Were Everywhere,” “Winter,” “Buttercups,” “The Neighbor’s Pears,” “Four Egrets at the Reservoir,” “Summer,” “From Our House Behind the Churchyard After a Storm,” “A Nimble Deer”

Old Mountain Press Anthologies: “Brunson Elementary School,” “Squirrel,” “Queen’s Court,” “Mrs. Listner’s Chickens,” “Uncle John’s ’55 Fairlane,” “Appalachia,” “Riding Gun’s Bicycle to Lake Malaren,” “Ants,” “High Country Winter,” “Irises,” “Dressing Room Blues,”
Surfers,” “My Father’s Fiat,” “The River,” “Tommy,” “Watching Shrimp Boats with my Father”

ONE ART Poetry Journal: “Night Talks,” “The White Bench”

Parent:Wise Austin: “Washing My Baby’s Hair Over the Kitchen Sink”

Paris Voice: “Luncheon in Paris”

Pinesong: “Madison’s Picture” (Honorable Mention, NCPS Caldwell Nixon Jr. Contest), “Frank and Alice” (First Place, Poetry of Love Award, NCPS) “At the Drive-In,” “Bloom” (Second Place, Poetry of Courage Award, NCPS)

Pirene’s Fountain: “Shapeshifting,” “Woman on the Dock,” “The Man Who Cut His Grass with Nail Scissors”

Pisgah Review: “County Fair”

Plainsongs: “Fog” (Editor’s Award)

Poems with Heart Charity Project Anthology: “Flower Child”

Poetica Magazine: “Shabbat Elevator”

Poetry Foundation: “Sponge Bath,” “Hospital Parking Lot,” “Fund Drive,” “My Cousin, Milton,” “New Bathing Suit”

Poet’s Market: “At the Bowling Alley” (Close to 2,000 poems were submitted by hundreds of poets from around the world, including Malaysia, Costa Rica, France, India, New Zealand, and several other countries, and 20 poems were chosen. “At the Bowling Alley” was one of the twenty), and (Honorable Mention in the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition)

Poets Reading the News: “Geminids“

Port City Poets, Wilmington Star News: “From the Garden,” “Angels of Death” (First Place, Port City Poetry Contest, set to music as part of a song cycle by composer Theodore Wiprud, former Education Director for the NY Philharmonic)

Prairie Wolf Press: “Night Train”

Prime Number Magazine: “Three Turtles,” “The Old Barn”

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS): two poems forthcoming

Raptor Resource Project: “Bald Eagle”

Red Eft Review: “Ila White,” “Baby Rabbits,” “Breakfast with My Parents,” “Canada Geese”

Redheaded Stepchild: “In Response to a Black and White Painting by Robert Frost”

Red River Review: “Pool Shark,” “The Dirt Road”

Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression: “Minnows”

San Pedro River Review: “The Physics of Fishing”

Scythe: “Girl in a Green Dress,” “Darla’s Daughter,” “To My Brother Who Died a Virgin,” “At the Urologist’s Office”

Seeding the Snow: “Butterfly Bush”

Shot Glass Journal: “My Mother’s Cookie Cutters,” “My Father’s Cowboy Boots,” “Grocery Shopping with my Husband”

Shoal: “Shrimp Boat Captain”

Silver Birch Press: “Thread Count“

Sleet Magazine: “The Knife Sharpener’s Chickens”

Smoking Poet: “Delta Blues,” “At the Nursing Home”

Still Crazy: “At the Pediatrician’s Office”

Stone Gathering Anthology: “Night Talks”

storySouth: “Red Tractor,” “Loretta Wray“

Tapestry: “Zora May Pettigrew”

Telling Tales of Dusk (Press 53, 2009): Full length collection (#23 on the Poetry Foundation Contemporary Best Seller List, 2010)

Texas Review Press: The Southern Poetry Anthology: “Making the Biscuits”

The Avalon Literary Review: “Ironing Clothes Three Months After My Father’s Death”

The Gatherings Project: “The Doctor Who Dies of the Coronavirus After the Hospital Runs Out of Gloves”

The Mantle: “Mockingbirds“

The Missing Slate: “The Helga Pictures”

The New Verse News: “The Doctor Who Dies of the Coronavirus After the Hospital Runs Out of Gloves” (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

The Ofi Press: “Angel“

The Rusty Nail: “Vincenzos,” “Rose”

The Sandy River Review: “Morning Music”

The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019: “After the Explosion”

The Sound of Poets Cooking Anthology: “Granny Smith Apple”

The Sun: “Loving You Burns Like Shingles“

The Sunlight Press: “Branch Point Fridays” (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize), “Red Berries,” “The Night My Mother Died”

The Writer’s Almanac (Garrison Keillor): “Ice Cream Truck”

Thread Count (2006): Full length collection

3rd Wednesday: “Egg Salad”

Time of Singing: “Love,” “Bluebird” (Editor’s Choice, Time of Singing Summer Poetry Contest, “Blackbird” (Second Place, Time of Singing Summer Poetry Contest)

Toasted Cheese: “Downpour”

Train River Covid-19 Anthology: “Eggs Up”

Tryst: “Depression”

Turtle Island Quarterly: “New Bathing Suit”

27 Rue de Fleures: “Stevie Santos”

Valparaiso Poetry Review: “Albino Opossum“

Verse Daily: “Red Tractor,” “County Fair,” “Moon Walk”

Verse-Virtual: “Communion,” “Pultenay Weir”

Voices and Vision: “Butter Mints,” “Daisy Chain”

Vox Poetica: “Trash Man”

Whole Terrain: “The White Mountains in Early June“

Wild Goose Poetry Review: “Assisted Living,” “Uncle Jack,” “A Rancher Buries His Wife”

Winston-Salem Journal: Terri Kirby Erickson: The eyes of angels (journalnow.com)

Your Daily Poem, “Thread Count,” “Two Crows,” “Autumnal Equinox,” “Butter Mints,” “Shrimp Boat Captain” (First Place in the Carteret Writers 19th Annual Writing Contest”), Woman on the Phone,” “Queen Anne’s Lace“

Additional Awards for individual poems: “How to Sing the Blues” (Finalist, Rita Dove Poetry Award), “Dust” (Finalist, Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition), “Wedding Days” (First Place in the “love” category of The Writers’ Ink Guild Fields of Earth Poetry Contest)