"At Breakfast" - published in Hanging Loose

"Natural Mistakes" - published in Southern Poetry Review

"Hansel and Gretel: The Mother Speaks" - Marlboro Review Poetry Prize, semi-finalist; New Millennium Writings poetry contest, Honorable Mention

"Hating the Babies" - published in Poetry Motel

"Passage" - Poetry Society of America, Consuelo Ford Award

"Courtly Love" - published (without title) in Pavement Saw

"A Fine Romance" - published in Southern Poetry Review

"A Fine Romance", "This Way to Hear a Lecture About God", "Melting", "Registering Bliss", "While You Were Out", "Beautiful Losses", "Awareness of Love", "Musée Rodin" - Discovery/The Nation 1999, Honorable Mention

"Registering Bliss" - published in The New Criterion

"Couplets" - published in Orange Willow Review

"Closing Time" - published in Cider Press Review

"Easy Pieces" - published in Literature and Belief; Dana Awards finalist

"Ivy" - published in Southern Poetry Review

"I Am Mailing You Another Country" - reprinted in Roth Anthology of American Poetry; Poetry Society of America, Elias Lieberman Award

"The Ghost in Love" - published in Southern Poetry Review

"Poisoned Hawks" - published in Grasslands Review

"A Talent for Sadness" - published in Cider Press Review

"On the Fence" - published in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review

"Musée Rodin" - published in About Such Things

"V(o)ices" - published in The Rose and Thorn

"The Little Thief" - published in Orange Willow Review