Poems Online

“Patriots” Litmosphere

“The Mist” About Place Journal

“The House That Jack Built” Tupelo Quarterly

“Deep South, Scarred Tree” storySouth

“Happiness” featured on Poetry Daily

Marriage” featured on Verse Daily (first published in The Cortland Review)

“I have become a little shrine for all,” “Vivarium: Corpus Delicti,” “After Wheat Field With Cornflowers,” and “Sermon & Acts” Connotation Press

Heretic,” “Last Testament,” “Hunting Song,” and “RestlessnessTinderbox

“Renovations” The North Carolina Literary Review

“Constellation,” and “The Brook” The Adroit Journal

“Whiteout” Coal Hill Review

Delirium” The New England Review (reprinted in Best New Poets 2014)

“Are You a Sheep Or a Goat?” “Moth, Mouth, Mother,” “There is Nothing We May Call Our Own,” “Antipsalms,” and “The Harrowing” Lodestar Quarterly


Reviews, Interviews & Intros

“Give us this day our newly dead…” Antipsalm reviewed by Gabriel Welch

Summer 2021 Book Reviews, Antipsalm reviewed by Brendan Egan, Shining Rock Poetry Anthology & Book Review

“Love and Death in North Carolina Poetry” by Catherine Carter, North Carolina Literary Review (2021)

Love, Loss, Chaos and Weather: A Conversation with Heidi Seaborn, Adroit Journal

Inauguration Day 2017: Interview with Tyree Daye, Raleigh Review

“Poet’s Sampler: Rodney Jack,” Introduced by Cate Marvin and Wayne Johns, Boston Review


Fiction

“Where Your Children Are” in Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina

“Where Your Children Are” is set in the summer of 1980 at the height of the Atlanta child murders. The story depicts the tensions of race relations, and the looming threat of violence in that place, alongside the narrator’s awakening of sexual identity. [Johns says] “I hope that it reverberates for any reader, in that it is also just a coming-of-age story that happens to be set in the deep South.” —The News & Observer

"A winning showcase of Southern queer lit."—Publishers Weekly

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