Some of my newest work, both poetry and prose:
Reliquary – 2023 Flash Creative Nonfiction Winner, Blue Earth Review
I Felt All Flushed with Fever – Cutleaf
What If Every Town Had a Pioneer Grill Like the One at Jackson Lake – Compass Rose Literary Journal
At the hothouse altar of second chances – Tangled Locks Journal
Never Without Her Umbrella – The Literary Bohemian
Reception – The Literary Bohemian
The American Romantic in Rhineland – American Diversity Report
If you were here my love, you’d be all talk – Scrawl Place
At the hothouse altar of second chances – Tangled Locks Journal
Select poems included in Sugar Fix, available from Terrapin Books:
Untold Story – As It Ought To Be Magazine
When the Watched Pot Boils – As It Ought To Be Magazine
On This Uncertain Earth – Parks & Points’ National Poetry Month Series, 2017
Fall Sanctuary – Chapter 16 / Humanities Tennessee
Questions from the Women for Dorothy, Wife of Richard Cantrell, Before the Grand Jury for Masking in Men’s Clothes, Walking, and Dancing at Nine O’Clock at Night, 1703 – museum of americana (based on my 10th great-grandmother)
The Assistant Marshal Makes an Error in Judgment – As It Ought To Be Magazine (based on my 3rd great-grandfather)
Getaway – Typishly (scroll down to see poem)
My Zinnias Grow Like Good Intentions – Kissing Dynamite
Postcards from the Cookie Jar – Stirring
Dear Reader – Autumn Sky Daily
Poems which appear in Heaven Was the Moon:
Highway 64, Between Beech Grove and Wartrace and New Frontier, 1970 – Chapter 16 / Humanities Tennessee
Hope Universal –Literary Mama
Other poems related to my ancestry and family, a theme in Sugar Fix:
Remnant – Deep South Magazine (based on an 1869 letter concerning my 4th great grandparents and many other kin)
Chapter in Which the Great Nation Unsings – Contemporary Haibun Online
Our Spirits Shall Sorrow No More – Deep South Magazine
Seasonal poems – winter and Christmas
There’s a God of False Starts and Tragic Mistakes and In the Deep of Winter’s Forest (scroll down) – The Wild Word
Travel-related poems (more on the way!)
On a Ferry South of Oslo – Unsplendid (includes audio)
Other writing, reviews and interviews related to Heaven Was the Moon (all of these include a sample of poems from the book)
Interview with Kory Wells, Heaven Was the Moon on William Woolfitt’s Speaking of Marvels
Kory Wells: Mixing Past and Present on the My Name Is Tennessee blog
Poet Writes of Life in Murfreesboro, Book Available Now by Bracken Mayo in The Murfreesboro Pulse
Writing about poetry
Although it was interrupted by the pandemic, I’ve often had a monthly column in the Murfreesboro Pulse. Read it here.
I’ve also written reviews of some of my favorite poetry books, with an eye toward regionally-connected poets, for National Poetry Month for several years.
2016: Stories roll in Darnell Arnoult’s ‘Galaxie Wagon’; Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
2015: Poetry books transport readers to other lands (Vandana Khanna’s Afternoon Masala; Irene Latham’s poetry book for children, Dear Wandering Wandering Wildebeest); Murfreesboro Daily News Journal
2014: A Trio of New Books for National Poetry Month (Lisa Coffman’s Less Obvious Gods; Irene Latham’s The Sky Between Us; The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee from Texas Review Press); The Murfreesboro Pulse
2013: Read These Tennessee Poets During National Poetry Month (Sandy Coomer’s Continuum; Jeff Hardin’s Notes for a Praise Book; Bobby Rogers’ Paper Anniversary); The Murfreesboro Pulse
