Publications (Books):
A Horse at the Hirshhorn. Finishing Line Press, 2002.
Publications (Articles):
Review of Mercurochrome, by Wanda Coleman. African American Review 36 (Winter 2002): 695-696.
"Halfway Plowed Under: From Oral History to Science Fiction in Fred Chappell's Double Tetralogy." The Journal of Kentucky Studies 18 (2001): 101-105.
"Personal and Public: Three First-Person Voices in African-American Poetry." The Furious Flowering of African-American Poetry. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. UP of Virginia, 1999. 223-238.
"Robinson’s ‘The Tree in Pamela’s Garden’." The Explicator 51 (1993):
230-232."The Fallen Philanthropist: Hollingsworth as the Center of The Blithedale Romance." Postscript 10 (1993): 83-89.
"Inner Light and Inner Lives: The Gospel According to Linda Beatrice Brown." North Carolina Literary Review 1 (1992): 106-114.
"An Alchemical Freedom Flight: Linking the Manciple’s Tale to the Second Nun’s and Canon’s Yeoman’s Tales." Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 162-170.
Publications (Poems):
Miranda Literary Magazine (2006): "For My Student, Murdered By Her Boyfriend"
Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature (forthcoming, 2007): "Early One Sunday," "Mrs. Hattie Knox Blows Out 100 Candles," "Mrs. Hattie Knox Sits by the Window," "Pinned," and "Seeking the Living."
Bay Leaves (2006): “A Post-Structuralist Proposes to a New Historicist” (First Place, Ellen T. Johnston-Hale Light Verse Contest offered by the Poetry Council of North Carolina); “Counting” (Third Place, Gladys Owings Hughes Heritage Contest); “Sonnet #4” (Honorable Mention, Charles Shull Traditional Poetry Contest); and “Looking for Dawn” (Honorable Mention, James Larkin Pearson Free Verse Contest)
Main Street Rag (forthcoming, 2006): “What You See” and “Terrorism Preparedness”
Literature and Belief (forthcoming, 2007): “In the Historic Cemetery in Hillsborough, NC”
Bay Leaves (2005): “Mortality’s Carnation” (First Place, Gladys Owings Hughes Heritage Contest offered by the North Carolina Poetry Council) and “Two Sevenths” (Second Place, Archibald Rutledge Sonnet Contest offered by the North Carolina Poetry Council)
Sow’s Ear Poetry Review (2005): “For an Anniversary”
News & Observer (2005): "Winding the Clock"
Main Street Rag Poetry Journal (2005): "Shackles" and "Sexual Orientation"
Bay Leaves (2004): "After Years of Being the Second to Bed" (Honorable Mention in the Archibald Rutledge Sonnet Contest offered by the North Carolina Poetry Council) and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Portrait" (Honorable Mention in the Gladys Owings Hughes Heritage Contest offered by the North Carolina Poetry Council)
Journal of Kentucky Studies (2003) "The Pennsylvania Stationmaster, 1852"
News & Observer (2003) "The Reopening"
Southern Poetry Review (2003) "Morning News"
Bay Leaves (2003) "Leaving for Work" (Honorable Mention in the Archibald Rutledge Sonnet Contest offered by the North Carolina Poetry Council)
Poets for Peace (2002) "Saving Two Hundred Crabs"
Iodine (2002) "Sitting Out a Hurricane with My Cat"
Open Cut (2002) "Don't Pull Over"
Windhover (2001) "A Temporary Disappointment"
Main Street Rag Poetry Journal (2002) "For the Twentieth Anniversary of
My Grandfather's Death" and "Sex Ed"Main Street Rag Poetry Journal (2001) "Embezzling from the Sperm Bank"
Black Bough (1994) "Sunflowers"
Edge of Our World (1990) "At the Cut" and "Moments of Stillness"
The Greensboro Review (1989) "One Halloween"
Blue Pitcher (1988) "East Pacific Rise at 21 N" "Wild Rose" and
"Clouds"Appalachian Journal (1981) "A Need for Sassafras"
The American Scholar (1981) "A Horse at the Hirshhorn"
Poetry (1980) "Before Cooking an Eggplant" and "The Path of the
Headlights"The Greensboro Review (1980) "Young Girl Facing Danger and Obedience"
"Overheard While Cooking My Dinner" and "Thomas Pynchon and J.D. Salinger" (Winner, Amon Liner Award)The Greensboro Review (1979) "An Intimation" "The Dark Space" and
"3000 Year Old Indian Canoe Found in Bailey Lakes, Ohio"The Greensboro Review (1978) "The Rainy Season" and "A Waltz on the
Lake"Dark Tower (1977) "Road Maintenance"
Yawp (1976) ""The President's Prayer Breakfast Announcing Recession's
End" "The Elm Trees in the Cemetery" "Baking the Visitor's Loaf" "Plastic" and "On the Label"Inkstone (1975) "Above Zurich" (Winner, Inkstone Poetry Prize)
Conference Presentations:
"Mirror, Mirror: The Epistle of James and The Scarlet Letter." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Myrtle Beach, SC, March, 2005.
"Immigration, Memory, and the Imagination in Oscar Hijuelos’s Novels."
Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. College of Charleston. Charleston, SC, March, 2001."Robinson, Sandburg, Masters, and Their Women Characters: Modernist
Assumptions in Gender Representation." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Converse College. Spartanburg, SC, March, 1998."Racism and the Destruction of the Black Family in Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC, March, 1997.
"Cultural Intersections: Immigration, Memory, and the Imagination in Works by Kingston, Hijuelos, and Malamud." Conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Greensboro, NC, April, 1996.
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and E.A. Robinson: Anti-Stereotypical Views of Widows." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Winthrop Univ. Rock Hill, SC, March, 1996.
"Personal and Public: Three First-Person Voices in African-American Poetry." Furious Flower: A Revolution in African American Poetry. (A conference held in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks.) James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, September, 1994.
"Gender and Resistance in the Poetry of E. A. Robinson." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. College of Charleston, SC, March, 1994.
"E.A. Robinson’s Reliance upon Women in his Writing Process: Josephine
Preston Peabody, Edith Brower, and `Feminine Criticism’." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Elon College, NC, March 1993."E.A. Robinson’s Challenges to Female Character Stereotypes." 18th Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, Jan. 1993.
"The Fallen Philanthropist: Hollingsworth as the Center of The Blithedale Romance." Conference of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Clemson, SC, Mar. 1992.
"The Kantian `Terrible’ Sublime in Forster’s A Passage to India." West
Virginia University Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, Morgantown, October 1991."An Alchemical Freedom Flight: Linking the Manciple’s Tale to the Second Nun’s and Canon’s Yeoman’s Tales." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, October 1990.