G A R Y  J.  W H I T E H E A D 

Poetry

• "Death Cap," published in The Providence Eye, 8 October, 2026.

• "Aides de Camp," published on Pulsebeat, summer 2026

• "Elegy for Evan" published in The Common, summer 2026

• "Elegy on a Vanishing," "Doppelgänger," and "Breakwater," published in Gargoyle.

• "Seeing Double," "First Drunk," "The Big Book," "Moment of Impact" published in The Awakenings Review, Spring 2026, vol. 13, no. 1.

• "First Frost" published in The Monitor Weekly, February, 2026.

• "Barometer," "Observance," and "Wings to Fly," published in One Art

• "Iowa Elegy" published in American Poetry Journal

• Two poems, "Elegy for a Happy Year" and "Two Births," published in Raritan Review, Summer 2023.

• "Lobster Trap," a poem, published in The Common, spring 2021.

• "Fly in Our Salad" read on Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown

• "One-Legged Pigeon" featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry

• "O, Trout" published in The Penn Review

• "Horace, I Dream of Watches" reprinted on Verse Daily

• "Driving All Night" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac

• Three poems published in The Iowa Source

• "Pretend It Was Just the Wind" published in The New Yorker

• "Summer Leaves" published in West Texas Literary Review

• "Gray Water" published in The American Journal of Poetry

• "Because It Is Cold and Nightfall Comes" published in Duende

• "A Flock of Starlings" and "Fishing in the Rain" published in Juxtaprose Magazine

• "Husbandry" and "The Lost Boy" published in American Journal of Poetry

• "Music from a Farther Room" published The Massachusetts Review and selected for the Anne Halley Poetry Prize

• "The Falling Man" published in Pif Magazine

• "Forgetting" published in Under a Warm Green Linden

• "Flying Saucers" - Poetry Daily (first published in Salamander)

• "Uncle" selected as Poem of the Week, The Guardian, UK

• "Purgatory Chasm" and "The Temple Toggle" published in The American Journal of Poetry

• Poem in Your Pocket Day - "A Glossary of Chickens"

• "Conch" - Poems in Profile, Ireland

• Four Poems published in The Galway Review

• "All the White" published in The American Journal of Nursing

• "Heat Lightning" and "Returning to Iowa" published in Shenandoah

• "Shoring Up" published in The New Criterion

• "Cordon Sanitaire" published in American Journal of Nursing

• "Loons" published in Pif Magazine

• "Making Love in the Kitchen." published in The New Yorker

• "Soldier Course" published in The New Yorker

• "Sleeping with My Dog" published in Pif Magazine

• Feature on Verse Daily: "Ararat"

• Feature on Poetry Daily: "Lot's Wife"

• "Lot's Wife" published in The New Yorker

• "A Glossary of  Chickens" published in The New Yorker

• "Sisyphus" published in Beloit Poetry Journal

• "Picking Pears" -  Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac

• "First Year Teacher to His Students" -  Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac

• "The Garden" - On Verse Daily

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Fiction

• "The Direction They Were Headed," a short story, published by The Galway Review.

• "The Rogue," a short story, awarded first place in the Sheridan Anderson Memorial Short Story Contest sponsored by Flyfishing and Tying Journal, published Winter, 2021.

• "The Baker, the Boy, and the Girl," a short story, published in Killing the Angel, 2012.

• "Labor Day," a short story, reprinted in the anthology Love Story of the Trout.

• "For Keeps," a short story, reprinted in the anthology Hemingway's Meadow.

• "A Dead Man in Sparta," a short story, published in Broken Bridge Review.

• "Line Dancing," a short story, published in US Catholic.

• "For Keeps," a short story, published in Fly Rod & Reel magazine and chosen as winner of the Robert Traver Fly Fishing Fiction Award.

• "Labor Day" a short story, published in Fly Rod & Feel magazine.

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Nonfiction

• Blog post on "Horace, I Dream of Watches," published in The North American Review.

• "The Maine Attraction," an essay, published in The Christian Science Monitor

• "Animal Dreams, and Dreams of Animals," an essay, published in The Christian Science Monitor.

• "The Maine Attraction," an essay, published in The Christian Science Monitor.

• "A Heaven We Knew Once," an essay, published in The Chautauqua Journal.

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Articles and Interviews

• Article, "An ELA Teacher's Survival Kit," published in the NJEA Review.

• Feature Story in Tenafly Magazine .

• Interview on The Massachusetts Review blog.

• Feature in New Jersey Monthly.

• The Anchor newspaper, Rhode Island College.

• NEA Today - Profile.

• The Inner Music Blog - Interview with Michael T. Young.

• "High School Teacher Makes His Mark Among International Poets at Princeton Poetry Festival." 

• Spotlight: Princeton University Press Blog.

• Connotation Press - Hoppenthaler's Congeries - An Interview and Four Poems​.