ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to the editors and staffs of the following journals where these poems appeared (some in different versions):

 

Cherry Tree: “The Bar Closes But You Don’t Want to Go Home,” “Bleached,” and “Shoot”; Cimarron Review: “This Exact Sky” (as “Just When You Give Up on Happiness”), “New York Pretending to Be Paris,” and “Something It Isn’t”; Connotation Press: An Online Artifact: “Boston: Late Summer,” “Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty,” and “Homosexuality (Dad said someone shot . . .)”; Copper Nickel: “Lessons”; Court Green: “Unmarked Grave” and “Sky”; drafthorse: “All You Knew,” “Medicine,” “Still Life with Gun,” and “Takeout”; Gabby: “Jennifer Lawrence”; Gard: “Like Him”; Hinchas de Poesia: “A Letter Regarding Your Recent Artwork” and “X”; LIT: “Still Life with Train” and “When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying”; The Literary Review: “Not All Faggots Bump Themselves off at the End of the Story” and “Nothing”; Lunch: “The River Phoenix Collection”; Ocean State Review: “Devotional” and “The Worried Well”; Pittsburgh Poetry Review: “Ruined”; Ploughshares: “Middle School Summer”; Poem-a-Day / The Academy of American Poets: “Like Him” and “Still Life with Antidepressants”; Prairie Schooner: “Liquid”; Seminary Ridge Review: “Evangelical” and “Homosexuality (In front of the congregation . . . )”

 

“Still Life with Antidepressants” was included in the anthology Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse (Literary House Press, 2016).

“Like Him” was included in the anthology Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Academy of American Poets and Abrams Image, 2015).

I would like to thank: Darnell Arnoult, Jan Beatty, Peter Covino (and the entire PELMDHA writing group), Elise D’Haene, Celeste Gainey, James Allen Hall, Nancy Krygowski, Randall Mann, Miguel Murphy, and David Trinidad.

For again giving my poems a home, thank you, Ed Ochester and the University of Pittsburgh Press.