poems and sometimes prose
2024
(forthcoming)
Ninth Letter: "gay. mean dad. hard for me" (after The Other Two)
Electric Literature: "[fig. 312 decoy] [fig. 313 decoy with wings]" and "self-portrait as that one scene from Pokémon: The First Movie"
Cobra Milk: "Compost"
(online)
Passages North: "gay table commercial in no particular order"
Poetry Online: "dollmaker dollmaker"
fifth wheel press: "Queen of the Night"
(print)
Copper Nickel: "SHADOW PICTURES"
Puerto del Sol: "Birdsingers, etc." and "Anti-dysphoria Poem" ("Anti-dysphoria Poem" nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
2023
(online)
The Offing: "Morning Wood"
boats against currents: "calibrating the dream machine"
Variant Lit: "More than once, I've dreamed I was a building"
Diode Poetry Journal: "self-portrait as fagus sylvatica pendula [nonbinary]" and "Gift"
MAYDAY: "Watch Your Hellmouth" and "Raso means 'shaven' or 'bare' or 'satin'"
Rejection Letters: "When I grow up, I want to be an abomination"
Poetry Magazine: "Harold Norse says Poetry meant being a sissy and worse. A fairy..."
(print)
Gigantic Sequins: "CHAPTER XLI. AND MATCHES MADE OF HUMAN FINGERS"
Foglifter Journal: "HAROLD NORSE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE MOON..." and "PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY..." and "INSTEAD OF BECOMING A BOY, PINOCCHIO..."
Seneca Review: "fig. 209 shows Carabas in a bathing suit"
Black Warrior Review: "godinthewall 1" (nominated for Best New Poets)
2022 (and earlier)
(online)
CAROUSEL: "In 2006, the church expelled my queer, my father disappeared and a lightbulb started growing in my chest" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Split Lip Magazine: "Material History of the Closet [Soft Serve Ice Cream]" which you can also purchase in postcard form, along with lots of other beautiful work!
Muzzle Magazine: "Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, Imagines What It's Like to Love, Be Held"
and "Material History of the Closet [Lay's Potato Chips]"
Miniskirt Magazine: "HAROLD NORSE SAYS BEAUTY IS EXCLUSIVE TO THE CIS
AND WE SHOULD NEVER CHANGE OUR UNDERWEAR" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Sundog Lit: "I look inside my mouth" (nominated for Best Of The Net)
Bodega Magazine: "Material History of the Closet [Axe]"
Peach Mag: "Neuroplasticity Ode" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine: "HAROLD NORSE FORGIVES THE HOT ITALIAN MEN
OF THEIR HOMOPHOBIA" (nominated for Best Of The Net)
Sepia: "Cognitive Reflection Index"
Many Nice Donkeys: "EXODUS [love poem for youyouyou, whoever notices this]"
(nominated for Best Of The Net)
DIAGRAM: "Personality Index"
The Journal: "Anxiety Aubade, or My Therapist Has a Breakthrough"
Ghost City Review: "Movies Makes Me Movie Me"
The Scores: "6. July" and "7. August"
A Velvet Giant: "I haven't been able to write a poem since someone on the internet said 'never love a bipolar. They are not lovers. They are incapable of feeling love.'"
Lunch Ticket: "Depression Aubade" and "Feedback"
(print)
Cream City Review: "[my father is my hero because]"
Salt Hill Journal: "Hotbed in Repose" and
"Material History of the Closet [VHS]" (nominated for Best New Poets)
RHINO Poetry: "Still-life with coat"
(forthcoming)
Ninth Letter: "gay. mean dad. hard for me" (after The Other Two)
Electric Literature: "[fig. 312 decoy] [fig. 313 decoy with wings]" and "self-portrait as that one scene from Pokémon: The First Movie"
Cobra Milk: "Compost"
(online)
Passages North: "gay table commercial in no particular order"
Poetry Online: "dollmaker dollmaker"
fifth wheel press: "Queen of the Night"
(print)
Copper Nickel: "SHADOW PICTURES"
Puerto del Sol: "Birdsingers, etc." and "Anti-dysphoria Poem" ("Anti-dysphoria Poem" nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
2023
(online)
The Offing: "Morning Wood"
boats against currents: "calibrating the dream machine"
Variant Lit: "More than once, I've dreamed I was a building"
Diode Poetry Journal: "self-portrait as fagus sylvatica pendula [nonbinary]" and "Gift"
MAYDAY: "Watch Your Hellmouth" and "Raso means 'shaven' or 'bare' or 'satin'"
Rejection Letters: "When I grow up, I want to be an abomination"
Poetry Magazine: "Harold Norse says Poetry meant being a sissy and worse. A fairy..."
(print)
Gigantic Sequins: "CHAPTER XLI. AND MATCHES MADE OF HUMAN FINGERS"
Foglifter Journal: "HAROLD NORSE HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE MOON..." and "PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY..." and "INSTEAD OF BECOMING A BOY, PINOCCHIO..."
Seneca Review: "fig. 209 shows Carabas in a bathing suit"
Black Warrior Review: "godinthewall 1" (nominated for Best New Poets)
2022 (and earlier)
(online)
CAROUSEL: "In 2006, the church expelled my queer, my father disappeared and a lightbulb started growing in my chest" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Split Lip Magazine: "Material History of the Closet [Soft Serve Ice Cream]" which you can also purchase in postcard form, along with lots of other beautiful work!
Muzzle Magazine: "Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, Imagines What It's Like to Love, Be Held"
and "Material History of the Closet [Lay's Potato Chips]"
Miniskirt Magazine: "HAROLD NORSE SAYS BEAUTY IS EXCLUSIVE TO THE CIS
AND WE SHOULD NEVER CHANGE OUR UNDERWEAR" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Sundog Lit: "I look inside my mouth" (nominated for Best Of The Net)
Bodega Magazine: "Material History of the Closet [Axe]"
Peach Mag: "Neuroplasticity Ode" (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine: "HAROLD NORSE FORGIVES THE HOT ITALIAN MEN
OF THEIR HOMOPHOBIA" (nominated for Best Of The Net)
Sepia: "Cognitive Reflection Index"
Many Nice Donkeys: "EXODUS [love poem for youyouyou, whoever notices this]"
(nominated for Best Of The Net)
DIAGRAM: "Personality Index"
The Journal: "Anxiety Aubade, or My Therapist Has a Breakthrough"
Ghost City Review: "Movies Makes Me Movie Me"
The Scores: "6. July" and "7. August"
A Velvet Giant: "I haven't been able to write a poem since someone on the internet said 'never love a bipolar. They are not lovers. They are incapable of feeling love.'"
Lunch Ticket: "Depression Aubade" and "Feedback"
(print)
Cream City Review: "[my father is my hero because]"
Salt Hill Journal: "Hotbed in Repose" and
"Material History of the Closet [VHS]" (nominated for Best New Poets)
RHINO Poetry: "Still-life with coat"