I’m the author of the poetry collections Growl and Mud: Collected Poems 2021-2023 (2024, Basement Books) 92 Tanka, (2021, Basement Books.) and the chapbook ‘God’s Tired Plumbers‘ (2020). My work will or has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Impspired, The Moon City Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Unavoidable Disaster, Contemporary Haibun Online, Thimble Literary Magazine, Poetry Flash,The New Southerner, Pegasus, Antique Children, The Smoking Poet, The Dispatch LitaReview, The American Mythville Review, The Licking River Review, Inscape, and on semantikon.com. I am also the author of two other poetry collections, several other chapbooks, a collection of short stories, and a novella. My work published on semantikon.com (Expedition Notes, Vol. 3, and more) is archived by the Weston Gallery as part of a group of writers representing the Ohio Valley at the turn of the century. I’ve organized readings all over the Midwest, including the 5 Minutes of Fame in Mount Carroll, IL (with the help of the Main Street Art Guild), which was a monthly open mic of literature and music that helped revitalize the regional music scene, and Literary Uprising: Louisville, with funding provided by a grant through Antioch University – Los Angeles. I publish new work sometimes on Instagram (@rivercitymick).

growl and mud: collected poems, 2021-2023 (2024, Basement Books)

Smokelong Quarterly “Smoke and Mirrors with Melissa Beneche” 9/27/21

Impspired : August 2021

92 Tanka (Basement Books, 2021)

God’s Tired Plumbers (Basement Books, 2021)

Moon City Review: August 2021

Cajun Mutt Press Feature: 9/9/21

Contemporary Haibun Online 1/2020. 15.4

Thimble Literary Magazine, 3/2020. 2.4

Expedition Notes, Vol. 3 (semantikon.com)

Fragments of Unidentifiable Form

Lines From Another Book of Common Prayer

Living Broke: Stories

Buzzmonkee Tract 1.1: Selma Finds Herself

Conversations with Carlos

Cortez Eating the Sun

The Greyhound Quarto

Static (a fiction single)

In the Great World (Small) (novella)

The Crossing of Saint Frank (chapbook)

Whitman by Moonlight (chapbook)

Endnotes to the Deep Atlas of Time (chapbook)

Prodigial Bound (poetry pamphlet)

3 Stories / 4 Poems (chapbook)