It’s always an honor to have an editor select your work and launch it out into the world, demonstrating faith in your abilities, or receive editorial coverage to further the cause. And it’s nice to be able to share some examples with interested readers.

Gratifying to have three poems featured in “Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature.” Especially appreciate having them characterized by editor Dr. Randy Mackin as “powerful and memorable.”

The Salisbury Post published a feature on the release of “Snake Bit” in its August 24, 2025 issue, with a nod to local roots.

Thanks to Real South/West Magazine for featuring a story, “Hard Times for a Haggard Heart,” in its January/February 2025 issue. A personal favorite that I’m glad found such a good home.

Honored to receive a gracious review of “Not Dark Yet” from Real South/West Magazine in its May-June 2024 issue.

Thanks to the editors of Sky Island Journal for publishing “A Banked Jumper in Late Life” and their thoughtful comments: “A Banked Jumper in Late Life” transports and challenges us in ways that poems seldom do. We rarely see this kind of intimacy displayed when anyone writes about sport (much less our beloved sport of basketball), and we rarely see it executed with such svelte grace. Intensely personal, yet wildly accessible, “A Banked Jumper in Late Life” reveals uncomfortable truths about who we are—bound and unbound by time—and it does so in beautiful and unexpected ways. Like all great art, this poem is a gift that keeps giving; we discover more about it, and ourselves, with every reading. It will be an honor to share it with the world.

“The Second Coming of Vonda Wills” and “Kicking Dante’s Ass” were selected for publication in Real South Magazine by fiction editor John Dufresne, an outstanding writer with a host of excellent novels to his credit. Click to read the stories: “The Second Coming of Vonda Wills” and “Kicking Dante’s Ass”

Deep South Magazine published “Nothing But A House”

Delta Poetry Review selected two poems for its Volume 3, Issue 7: “From Dirt A Soul” and “Mister Slick”

Thanks to Nashville Review for featuring a poem, “Ghosts Into Stones”

“Thousands of Days and Nights” appeared in Issue 18 of Steel Toe Review.

Check out a poem — “Boyd’s Big Bang Dilemma” — published by The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

Deep South Magazine included two poems — “Lost in Piney Woods” and “Juke Joint Jumping” — in its annual National Poetry Month issue.

Dew on the Kudzu featured two stories: “Thinking About Walking to the Mailbox” and “Blessed Union”

I also do regular travel features for Visit North Carolina, the state’s official tourism website, and you can find a collection of articles here.