Selected Poetry Publications 

Chapbook: 
What the Welsh and Chinese Have In Common - North Carolina Writers' Network Award 1990 
NCWN PO Box 954 Carrrboro, NC 27510 (919) 967-9540 

Anthologies 

Rising With the Moon on Advent's Eve. Power of Goodness. December 2020. (Chapel Hill Press).
Start the Game, Hymn to Cash, Where I Come From. Pinesongs 2018. (NC Poetry Society).
Against Morning. Intimacy. (Jacar, 2015) 
Sponge. What Matters. (Jacar, 2013) 
The mundane but discretely lovely details of our daily lives. ...and love... (Jacar, 2012) 
Artichokes. The Sound of Poets Cooking. (Jacar, 2012) 
In the Poetry Section of a Used Bookstore. 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern University Town in Prose & Poetry. (Eno Publishers, 2011) 
Dividing Waters. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont (UNC Press, 2010). 
To His Penis. The Best American Erotic Poems 1800-Present. (Scribners, 2008) 
Morning Song. Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry. (NC Poetry Society, 1999)

Journal	/ Poem / Date

8 Poems.
Verse in Which I Should Probably Be More Charitable Towards the Gift of a Book of Mediocre Verse. TBA. 2021.

Cider Press Review.
Cardinal. Summer 2021.

O.Henry Magazine.
Pinestraw Magazine.
Pairing Mantids. Mid-March, 2021. (First appeared in Panoply)

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
The Disappointment of the Comet Kohoutek. March, 2021.

January Review
My Life as a Scorpion. March, 2021.
My Precious Death. March, 2021.

Literary Yard.
Emancipation of the Mermaid Tattoo, Larger Concerns, An Aran Sweater, Radio Bosnia, and Against Bird Poems. February 27, 2021.

Grand Little Things
Two Triolets. The Saint of the Trees and Erasure. February 5, 2021.
Verse Virtual.
Wine, Age. February, 2021.

Ekphrastic Review.
After A Sudden Blow. (After Craven Arts) 2021.

2020 Ekphrastic Poetry Book from Craven Arts Council and Gallery.
After A Sudden Blow. January, 2021.

Voice Vox Journal.
Of A Marriage. January, 2021.

Red Fez.
The Impossibility of America. January 14, 2021.
Poem in Which I Forget Myself. January 14, 2021.

Panoply, A Literary Zine.
Pairing Mantids. January 2, 2021.

American Journal of Poetry.
I Too Dislike Them. January, 2021.

Broadkill Review.
Betty s Current Status. January 1, 2021.

As It Ought To Be Magazine
Something Wonderful. December 23, 2020.

The Rusty Truck
Visions of Andrew December 11, 2020.

Thoughts on the Power of Goodness, co-edited by Timothy F. Crowley and Jaki Shelton Green.
Rising with the Moon on Advent Eve. December, 2020.
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Deuce Coupe Poetry
The Good Butcher and Lunar Exploration December 9, 2020.

Redheaded Stepchild.
Firing Pottery on the Night Before Winter Solstice. Fall 2020.

little death lit.
All the Way Up. Issue 5. Fall 2020.

The Phare.
Can Crows Kiss? November/December 2020.

Grand Little Things
Eastbourne in May. October 28, 2020.

Madness Muse Press
Who Would Not Celebrate the Changes. October 11, 2020.
In one hand, mine. October 11, 2020.

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
The Disappointment of the Comet Kohoutek. March, 2021.

American Journal of Poetry.
I Too Dislike Them. January, 2021.

Broadkill Review
Betty's Current Status. Winter 2020.

Prime Number Magazine
Prime 53 Poem Challenge
One Red Maple. October 1, 2020.

River Heron Review
Return to Kurdistan. September 15, 2020.

Ekphrastic Review
Unnamed Early 20th Century Burial in St Matthews Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hillsborough, NC (2020). September 8, 2020.

2River View
In Praise of Small Disturbances. September, 2020.
In An Unripe Season. September, 2020.

Frank Cooperative Gallery
Essay on Ekphrastic Poetry. August, 2020.

Red Fez.
To a Certain Feeling of Optimism. August 15, 2020.
To Very Small Devices. August, 2020.

The Ekphrastic Review.
Lewis Morley's photograph of Christine Keeler sitting the wrong way round on a copy of a Arne Jacobsen chair (UK) 1963. July 22, 2020

Grand Little Things.
Cicadas. July 21, 2020
Prayer to a Deer in Summer. July 21, 2020

Unbroken Journal.
The Church of Misdirected Saints. July 2020.
Pig's Eyes. July 2020.

Redheaded Stepchild Magazine.
Pulled Up My Socks. Spring 2020.

Vox Poetica Magazine.
Slugs. Spring 2020.

South Writ Large.
Bee Fall. Spring 2020.
Beach at Corolla, NC. Spring 2020.

Third Wednesday Magazine.
The Happiness of Fear. Summer 2020.
An Honest Talk To The Shadow. summer 2020.

Triggerfish Critical Review.
Visiting Lhakdor. July 2020. 
The Trouble With Macaques. July 2020. 
The Hidden Buddhists of Baikal. July 2020.
 
Turtle Island Quarterly.
Early Fall Full Moon. January 2020.

Broadkill Review.
Seventy Three. March/April 2020.
Moving From House to House. March/April 2020

Red Fez.
At Seventy. January 2020.

Blake-Jones Review.
Messengers. December 2019.

Snapdragon.
Scavengers. December 2019.

Speckled Trout Review. 
Skinnydip in the Mill Pond. December 2019.

Snapdragon
Against Desirelessness. November 2019.

Kakalak.
THe Red Vinegar Sauce. December 2019.

Hermit Feathers.
Lost Harbor. 2019.
Blue Ridge. 2019.

Light. lightpoetrymagazine.com
My Roommate Joeffry. 2018.

Red Fez 117 www.redfez.net
On an Okra Flower. 2018
 
Trigger Fish Critical Review 
State Mayakovsky Museum. 2018 

International Lawrence Durrell Society. 
She Sails. 2017 

NC Literary Review - East Carolina University 
Basketball is a Kind of Poetry. 2017 (online) 
Clear Channel. 2017 (in print) 

Special Trash Edition of Carrboro Free Press. 
The mundane but discretely lovely details of our daily lives. 2009. 

News & Observer - Raleigh, NC. 
Seven Deadly Friends. Dec 18, 2007. 
Work of Love. Sept. 2, 2007. 
Song of Joy. December 31, 2006. 
Dark Matters. June 4, 2006. 
Unapproachable Edens. February 13, 2005. 
Lesser Light. July 24, 2005. 
Creation of Heaven. November 13, 2005. 
Birds and Fishes. June 20, 2004. 
Dividing Waters. August 17, 2003. 
At The Tupperware Party. May 12, 2002. 

Sandhills/St. Andrews Review. Southern Pines, NC 
Bay at Dawn	50th issue Fall 97 

Carolina Quarterly. CB #3520, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 
What Can Answer	Fall 95 

Southern Review. 43 Allen Hall, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5005 (504) 388-5108 
Hunter's Stew	Fall 1994 
Pastoral	Fall 1994 

Southern Poetry Review. Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223 
Constellations. Fall 93.
Sister-With-No-Hands. Spring 1980. 

Southern Humanities Review. Department of English, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama (205) 826-4606 
Wild Ginger	Fall 94 
That Kind of Night	Spring 88 
Bamboo	Fall 86 

Hellas. 304 South Tyson Avenue, Glenside, PA 19038 (215) 884-1086 
Fatherhood in MIddle Age	Spring 93 

Poetry. 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 (312) 280-4870 
Better Tomorrow	June 93 

Thinker Review. Louisville University, Lousiville, Kentucky 
What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common Summer 92 
I Recall Li Po Considered Death Final	Summer 92 
Native African Revolutionaries	Summer 92 

Turning Dances. Aosta Pubishing, 102 Elm Street, Carrboro, NC 27510 
Approaching Zero	Summer 91 

The Poet Could Not Contain Itself. PO Box 897, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 
In Kurdistan Winter 91 

Brix. Art Army Press/Greater Flint Arts Council 420 S.Saginaw St. Flint, MI 48502 
Richard Avedon's Photograph of Lauren Hutton Winter 91 

American Literary Review. Dept of English, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 
Roadrunner	Fall 90 

Ceasura. Department of English, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 36849 (205) 826-4606 
I Recall Li Po Considered Deatrh Final	Spring 89 

St. Andrews Review. Department of English, St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, NC (919) 276-3652 
Bay At Dawn	Spring 88 

Durham - A Living Culture.	Carolina Wren Press, Saxapahaw, NC 
Morning Song	Fall 87 
Rain's Work	Fall 87 
One Minute	Fall 87 
Winter Fruit	Fall 87 

ArtsJournal. Charlotte Street, Asheville, NC 
Lasting	Dec 86 

Crescent Review.
The Sower. Spring. 1986.

Ironwood. Box 40907, Tucson, Arizona (no phone listed) 
Heart	Spring 86 
What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common Spring 86 

Pembroke Magazine. Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC (919) 521-4214 
Source of the Amazon	1986 
Good Grey Men	1985 
Legacy and Grief	1985 
CrowMoon	1985 

Georgia Review. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. (404) 542-3481 
An Essay In Political Science	Winter 84-85 

Plainsong.
Distance. Winter 1985.
Abandoned Barn Poem. Fall 1980.
Early Logic. Fall 1980.
Last Stage. Fall 1980.
For Meg. Fall 1980.

Uwharrie Review.
Passage. Fall 1981.

Ohio Review.
The Find. Number 24. (1980).

Greensboro Review. 
Pail. Spring, 1978.

Saint Andrew Review. 
Myth of Love (fragments). Fall/Winter 1976.
fishin in de debil's creek. Fall/Winter 1976.
Releasing Ravens. Fall/Winter 1976.


Broadsides: Poem	Publisher	Date 

Mowing. Poetry in Plain Sight. Winston-Salem Writers. June 2018.
Misspeak, Memory. Poetry in Plain Sight. Winston-Salem Writers Jul. 2016 
Godzilla. NC Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, NC	Mar. 92 
Kites at Night. Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC	Feb. 91 
Artichokes. City Gallery, Raleigh, NC	Mar. 91


Prizes, honors, or grants

NC Arts Council Writers Fellowship - 1981 

North Carolina Poetry Society Awards - 2018
(poems also collected in NCPS Anthology Pinesongs)
Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award - First Place
Joanna Catherine Scott Award - First Place
Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award - Second Place

Best of Net nomination - Broadkill Review - 2020
Best of the Net Prize nomination -  Red Fez - 2019
Pushcart Prize nomination - 2018 NC Poetry Society
NC Literary Review - 2nd Place as well as honorable mention in James Applewhite Contest - 2017 
Pushcart Prize nomination - 2017 NC Literary Review
Best of the Net nomination - 2017 NC Literary Review 
International Lawrence Durrell Contest - 3rd Place - 2017 

(took a little break here. see http://ibiblio.org/pjones/Vitae.html ) 

Hellas Award Finalist - 1993 
Guy Owen-Tom Walters Poetry Contest (Charles Wright-final judge) North Carolina State University - Second Place - 1992 
Chapbook Award (Maxine Kumin-final judge) North Carolina Writer's Network - 1990 
Writers and Readers Series Competition (NCWN) - 1988 
Emergent Poets Reading Series Competition (WUNC radio) 1987 
Theodore Christian Hoefner Award (Southern Humanities Review) - 1987 
Lyricist Poetry Contest - Mention - 1980, 1984 
Cold Mountain Review Poetry Contest - Finalist - 1980 
Carolina Quarterly Poetry Prize - 1979