Writings Featured Online
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"The Direction They Were Headed," a short story, published by The Galway Review
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"Fly in Our Salad" read on Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown
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"One-Legged Pigeon" featured in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry
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"O, Trout" published in The Penn Review
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"Horace, I Dream of Watches" reprinted on Verse Daily
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"Driving All Night" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac
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Blog post on "Horace, I Dream of Watches," published in The North American Review
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Three poems - The Iowa Source
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"Gray Water" - The American Journal of Poetry
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"A Flock of Starlings" and "Fishing in the Rain" - Juxtaprose Magazine
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"Husbandry" and "The Lost Boy" - American Journal of Poetry
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"Music from a Farther Room" - The Massachusetts Review
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"The Falling Man" - Pif Magazine
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"Forgetting" - Green Linden
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"Flying Saucers" - Poetry Daily (first published in Salamander)
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"The Maine Attraction," essay, The Christian Science Monitor
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"Uncle" - Poem of the Week, The Guardian, UK
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"Purgatory Chasm" and "The Temple Toggle" - The American Journal of Poetry
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Four Poems - The Galway Review
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"All the White" - The American Journal of Nursing
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"Heat Lightning" and "Returning to Iowa" - Shenandoah
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"Shoring Up" - The New Criterion
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"Cordon Sanitaire" - American Journal of Nursing
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"Loons" - Pif Magazine
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"Making Love in the Kitchen" - The New Yorker
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"Soldier Course" - The New Yorker
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"Sleeping with My Dog" - Pif Magazine
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Feature on Verse Daily: "Ararat"
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Feature on Poetry Daily: "Lot's Wife"
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"Lot's Wife" - The New Yorker
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"A Glossary of Chickens" - The New Yorker
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"Sisyphus" - Beloit Poetry Journal
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"Picking Pears" - Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac
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"First Year Teacher to His Students" - Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac
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"The Garden" - On Verse Daily
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Articles and Interviews
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Interview on The Massachusetts Review blog
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The Inner Music Blog - Interview with Michael T. Young
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"High School Teacher Makes His Mark Among International Poets at Princeton Poetry Festival"
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Connotation Press - Hoppenthaler's Congeries - An Interview and Four Poems
Residencies
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Article on the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award
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Dispatch from PEN Northwest (a short piece on the Boyden residency)
Awards
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Anne Halley Poetry Prize, The Massachusetts Review
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Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching
(finalist)
Photo by Betsy Steele