A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood; VQR Poetry Series, University of Georgia Press (2009) 

Paper Cathedrals, Kent State University Press (2001) 

Field Knowledge, Waywiser Press (2006) 

St. Michael’s Scales, Arthur A. Levine (2002) 
Buddy Cooper Finds a Way, Simon and Schuster (2004) 

The Miracle Stealer, Arthur A. Levine (2007) 

The Preacher, David C. Cook (2009) 

Beautiful Trouble, Southern Illinois University (2004) 

Emporium, Viking (2002)  

Parasites Like Us,  Viking (2003)  

Too Close to Call, University of Misissippi (2001) 

The Myths of Electricity, Texas Review Press (2005) 

My First Presidentiary, Political Satire, Three Rivers Press (2001)  

Fondling Your Muse, Writers Digest Press (2005) 
So You Want to Be President? Tow Books (2008) 

The Prosodies of R.S. Thomas, University of Wales (2010)  

Fiction Weekly

Oasis Journal

Glimmer Train, Fiction Weekly

Shenandoah

Fiction Weekly

The Southern Review, The Pinch, Yemassee, Relief

Glimmer Train

Fiction Weekly, The Laurel Review

Hayden’s Ferry, River City, Missouri Review, Gulf Stream, The Chattahoochee Review, South Dakota Review

Carve

AWP: The Writer’s Chronicle, The Oxford American

TV Guide, Salon, Business 2.0, Modern Humorist, The Morning News, Desmin, Public Scrutiny

American Scholar, Chariton Review

Southern Review

Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets, Colorado Review, New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, Bellingham Review, Southeast Review, Threepenny Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, Witness, Spoon River Poetry Review, Dense Growth: Writing the Northwest Coast, Poetry Northwest, South Carolina Review, Literary Salt, Southern Review, Georgia Review

Sewanee Review, American Literary Review, Missouri Review, Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Laurel Review, The Review (London), Image, Commonweal, Literary Review, Critical Quarterly, Hudson Review, New Criterion, New Republic, Southeast Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry, Yale Review

Laurel Review, Mid-American Review, Midwest Quarterly, North American Review, Plains Song Review, Prairie Schooner; Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry, South Dakota Review, Southeast Review, Southern Poetry Review, Talking River Review, Willow Review

ABZ

Broken Bridge Review, Penwood Review, Pisgah Review, Southeast Review

Image,Poetry,Prarie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review

The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, McSweeney’s, Southern Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Amelia, Indefinite Space, Conduit, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, The Round Table, Poetry Motel, Pegasus, Ship of Fools, The Kansas Quarterly Review of Literature, Open 24 Hours, Monadnock Writer

Asheville Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, North American Review, Spoon River Poetry

Louisiana Division of Arts Award

Artist Trust Fellowship, Grolier Poetry Prize, National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, Rosenberg Poetry Prize,Witness magazine Emerging Writers Prize

Louisiana Division of Arts Award

Louisiana Division of Arts Award, Ruth Lilly Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2005

Louisiana Division of Arts Award

Stegner Fellow

Louisiana Division of Arts Award

Louisiana Division of Arts Award, Ruth Lilly Fellowship

Louisiana Division of Arts Award, Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Award

Instructor, McNeese State University

PhD Candidate, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Visiting Lecturer, McNeese State University

PhD Candidate, Texas Tech

Adjunct Instructor of English, University of South Caroline, Upstate

Department Head, English and Foreign Languages, McNeese State University

Instructor of Written Communication and Humanities, Tacoma Community College

PhD Candidate, University of Rhode Island

Department Head, English, Labette Community College

PhD Candidate, University of Houston