POEMS ONLINE
New Poems
Holoholo (2021)
- “Ode on Words for Parties (American Edition)” – The New Yorker
- “Ode on Killing Sadness” – American Poetry Review
- “Ode on My Blindness” and “Ode to Driving on Venice Boulevard with Emily Dickinson” – American Journal of Poetry
- “Ode on the Brides of India” – Literary Matters
- “Ode to My Younger Self” – Literary Matters
- “Ode to My Prison” – Literary Matters
Bird Odyssey (2018)
- “Athena Ode” – The New Yorker
- “Letter to a Lost Friend” – Poetry Foundation
- “Ode to Lenin’s Overcoat, Over-the-Hill Tenors After the Opera, and The Dream of the Dacha” – New World Writing
- “Penelope’s Lament” – The New York Times Magazine
- “Elvis and Tolstoy Save the World”
- “New Orleans Dithyramb” – Vox Populi
On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (2014)
- “Ode to Forgetting the Year”
- “Ode to Knots, Noise, Waking Up at Three, and Falling Asleep Reading to My Id”
- “How to Pray”
- “Ode to Lil’ Kim in Florence”
- “Reading Can Kill You”
All-Night Lingo Tango (2009)
- “Ode on Dictionaries”
- “Mambo Cadillac”
- “Ode on Satan’s Power”
- “Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that Plague Me Like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory”
Babel (2004)
- “The Tawdry Masks of Women”
- “Thus Spake the Mockingbird”
- “Cinerama”
- “My Translation”
- “O Deceitful Tongue”
- “Ode to American English”
- “Ode to Barbecue”
- “Ode to My 1977 Toyota”
The Alphabet of Desire (1999)
Delirium (1995)
Readings and Interviews
- Barbara Hamby’s American Odyssey by Paul Tayyar
- Splash of Red: Dual interview with David Kirby
- Interview with storySouth
- Interview with Superstition Review
- Interview with Guernica “A Muscle of Belief”: An Interview by Erica Wright
- Of Poets & Poetry, March | April, 2022 “Profiles in Poetry”