Collections

The Great Permission: A reliquary
21 September 2022

Poems

The Brussels Review
forthcoming 2025:

  • "Apple Juice"
  • "Balter"
  • "Litany Against Loneliness"
  • "Two is the Rhythm of the Heart"

Poetry Salzburg Review
April 2022:

  • "Daydream"
  • "One of Those Kind"

The Mildred Haun Review
February 2022:

  • "The Beauty of the Metaphor is that it Breaks Down"
  • "I Feel the Earth Move"
  • "Killing Your Darlings"
  • "Meditation"
  • "tar- Banner"

The Wild Word
January 2022:

  • "In memoriam"

Stirring: A Literary Collection
January 2022:

  • "Dead Letters (to Brandon)"

The West Review
November 2021:

  • "What He Didn't Know Before"

Sinew: 10 Years of Poetry in the Brew, 2011–2021.
August 2021:

  • "Viscosity"

Please See Me
April 2021:

  • "Blood Clot: Coda"
  • "From the Shadow (5)"

Second Chance Lit
April 2021:

  • "The Author at 11 Wanted to be Reincarnated as a Dog"

The Bosphorus Review of Books
March 2021:

  • "Doppler Effect"
  • "Duende (3)"

Social Justice Anthologies: Recasting Masculinity
December 2020:

  • "The Men of Chernobyl"

Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact
March 2019:

  • "Werner Heisenberg Admits He Never Loved"

Gamut
December 2017:

  • "Duende (1)"

Stirring: A Literary Collection
October 2017:

  • "Apologia of a God Who Abandoned its Creation"

Connotation Press
September 2017:

  • "Imagine a City"
  • "Apologia of Having No Clear Answers"

Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks
March 2017:

  • "I let them drift away"

Public Pool
September 2016:

  • "Further Suggestions for Scrutinizing the Plan"
  • "Dearth & Distance"

The Human: Journal of Literature and Culture
June 2016:

  • "Forging the Boy"

Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal
September 2015:

  • "American Infrastructure, 2015"
  • "American Summer, 2014"

Potomac Review
June 2015:

  • "Black is the Color—"

Thin Air Magazine
March 2015:

  • "Dust"

One Trick Pony Review
October 2014:

  • "Bringing Down the Wall"
  • "The water may rise sharply"

Burlesque Press Variety Show
December 2013:

  • "A Confirmation"

China Grove
September 2013:

  • "Notes to Self, Ages 17 & 37"

Beecher's
July 2013:

  • "Synesthesia"

Connotation Press
June 2013:

  • "Apologia for Never Saying What I Mean"
  • "New Galactic Model"
  • "Vices & Virtues of Isolationism"

ReFryed Press
July 2012:

  • "Seoul Metro"

Yes, Poetry
December 2011:

  • "Apologia for My Shadow"
  • "I am willing to believe"
  • "Compromise"

The Volunteer Review
May 2011:

  • "Snowfalls & Seaways"

Tourist
September 2009:

  • "Honesty"

The Siren
May 2008:

  • "Dutch Masters"

Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine
December 2007:

  • "Argentina"
  • "Aubade"
  • "Nor’easter"

Older poems

Most of my poems that have been published are available in The Great Permission. However, several poems simply didn’t fit in that manuscript, and many of those journals folded:

Recent features

Labyrinth Poetry Night
29 December 2024
Labyrinth Cocktail, Soul Food & Poetry Bar, Amsterdam
with Kevin Ahn Kwang Soo Groen, Paula Breuning, Tate Alois Chimhanda, Tuaca Kelly, Krishna Kaur, Joanna Leon, Andrew Dillon, Xina, Jaclyn Rose, Jamie Rhiannon, Yasmin, Thy Apostle

Loving Room Concerts
15 September 2024
De Bosbaan, Amstelveen
with Paul Manwaring, Cherry Sour, Michelle, Tom, Hannah Hoyt, Giacomo Boffi

Labyrinth Poetry Night (Host)
01 September 2024
Labyrinth Cocktail, Soul Food & Poetry Bar, Amsterdam
with Kelly Briais, Tate Alois Chimhanda, Kelly Mullins

Walk in My Words
07 April 2024
Labyrinth Cocktail, Soul Food & Poetry Bar, Amsterdam
with Kevin Groen (Host), Sunni Lamin Barrow, Tatenda Chimhanda, Sofija Gkaits, Janne Groen, Canan Marasligil, N8b, Rebecca Took

An Evening of Poetry
15 March 2024
Union Avenue Books, Knoxville
with Maggie Rue Hess, Anita "Ade" Johnson

A Muse, A Chef, A Poet
16 December 2023
What Is Happening Here gallery, Amsterdam
with Izadora Shin, Micah Graves, Lutsa Horváth, Tieka Masfar, Rebecca Took

Interviews

University of Tennessee Department of English
Professional Writing Careers Speaker Series #1: Andrew Dillon
September 2022

Shitty First Drafts
Episode 008—Andrew P. Dillon
October 2019

leslietate.com
Creative Interview 21 — On Dreams & Writing Poetry
May 2016

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