Selected Poems & Essays Online
From Because the Dead Cannot Tie Their Shoes
Forthcoming in Pratik: "Revival"
Forthcoming in Hags on Fire: "Novel"
From Some Distant Field
Forthcoming in Pratik: "Secret Favorite"
Forthcoming from Your Daily Poem: "Go On, Stay"
From Slow Unraveling of Living Ghosts
Headline Poetry: "The Escape"
Across the Social Distances: "Field Day"; reprinted in The Plague Papers e-anthology.
Quaranzine issue 15: "Measures," "Love in the Time of Covid," and "Elegy for the Beloved Stranger"
From The Body at a Loss
MockingHeart Review: "Match" (nominated for a Pushcart prize), "The Fly Implores You to Attend to Your Life,"
and "Wake, Butterfly, It's Late"
West Trestle Review: "Reading Miller's Essay 'On Tragedy and the Common Man'
the Night before Reading the Radiologist's Report"
Not online:
Hartskill Review: "Patient Survey"
PoetryMagazine.com: "How I Came into the Body," "We Set Sail for the Margins,"
"Snowstorm, What She Knows," "Since You Insist," and "Soliloquay"
From The Body, Like Bread:
Contrary: "Grace" and "Falling In, Falling Out"
The Quotable Lit, Desire/Issue 15: "Reciprocity"
From what Desire makes of us
The Nervous Breakdown: "the problem with Desire"
From My Skies of Small Horses
Verse Daily: "What It's Like To Be A Girl"
Truck: "Not Knowing Where This May Lead, Blue Horse Lets Them In"
No Tell Motel: "Only the Pots Know the Boiling Points of their Broths," "Over the Hills and Far Away,"
"There's a whole in the bucket, dear Liza," "Jam in the Doorjamb," and "Warning!"
Wicked Alice: "What Its Like to Be a Girl," "Command & Control,"
and "An Arrangement, an Iridescence, a Letting Go and Down"
From Seven Floors Up
Umbrella: "Caution Please Do Not Try to Turn the Head Forcefully by Hand!," "The Mum Bell,"
"Seven Floors Up to the Kitchen of the Soul"
From (al)most delicious
Umbrella: "Still Life with Interior," "Seated Nude 1," "Blonde Nude"
From small fruit songs
Umbrella:"Civil Fruit," "False Fruit," "Dreaming the Fruited Damson Tree," and "Fructus Industriales"
Qarrtsiluni: "Hive"
Essays
Shark Reef: "Iterations of Loss" (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Lady/Liberty/Lit: "Rethinking Mrs. Robinson in the #MeToo Moment"
The Manifest-Station: "Life After Death"
Salon.com: "What We Tell Our Sons about Rape"
Zocalo Public Square: "Can Books Build Community?"
Anthologies
Places We Return To: "Taking My Time"
The Plague Papers: "Field Day" (reprint)
Like a Fat Gold Watch,: "Pure" and "Greed"
Bared, Women Write Resistance: "After Googling Normal Breasts" and "The Milk-Wet Ache"
Letters to the World: "Pomegranate, Juiced"
White Ink: "Administering My Dog's Cancer Therapy, I Think About My Sons" (reprint)
Orangelandia: "Orange" and "What to Make of an Orange"
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor: "Pomegranate, Juiced"
Magazines & Newspapers
Flea Market Decor: "Brad Keeler's Legacy"
The Press-Enterprise: "Dear Santa"
The Press-Enterprise: "Riverside Women Strategize on Creating Change"
The Press-Enterprise: "Taking Writing to the Street to Reach Area's Homeless"
The Press-Enterprise: "Here's Why It's Important for Writers to Promote Their Own Books"
Interviews online & elsewhere
Podcasts
How I Write podcast with Thomas Girshin
The How The Why podcast by 1888
This Choice, with Ren Powell
Text
California Arts Council Creative Uplift series: "We're Here and We Love Company"
Los Angeles Review of Books: "The Online Pivot"
Shoutout L.A.
Literary Mama: A Conversation with Cati Porter by Kyra Rabinov
Artist's Spotlight in The Press-Enterprise by Patrick Brien of Riverside Arts Council
My (small press) writing life
rob mclennans 12 or 20 questions
Laura Madeline Wiseman's The Chapbook Interview
Umbrella Journal A Conversation with Cati Porter with Rachel Dacus
Book reviews online & elsewhere
Wintergreen by Charles Bennett in Galatea Ressurrects
Fear of Moving Water by Alex Grant in Smartish Pace
Chains & Mirrors by Alex Grant in Rattle
Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai in Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Landscape with Silos by Deborah Bogen in Rattle
Locket by Catherine Daly in Galatea Ressurrects
Editing
Inlandia Books
Founder and managing editor
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry
Poemeleon at The Review Review.
Founder & consulting editor
