Poetry Publications
"IRS Form 56 Notice Concerning Fiduciary Relationship" -- forthcoming in Passages North (2027)
“2B Clear This Is a Poem about Helplessness" -- forthcoming in Indiana Review (2026)
"Disability Insurance Progress Note" -- forthcoming in Bennington Review (2026)
"Life Insurance" -- forthcoming in Ninth Letter (2026)
“TRUMP SAYS IRAN DOWNED U.S. HELICOPTER AND VOWS TO RETALIATE” first appeared in The New Verse News with the title “AND THEN” (June 9, 2026)
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/06/and-then.html
"Trump's 'Fear Factor': Scientists Go Silent as Funding Cuts Escalate" -- Poets for Science (2026)
https://poetsforscience.org/trumps-fear-factor-scientists-go-silent-as-funding-cuts-escalate/
"Voluntary Surrender Form" -- The Penn Review (2026)
https://www.pennreview.org/voluntary-surrender-form
"HOME ON THE RANGE NO MORE: TRUMP WANTS BISON GONE" -- New Verse News (May 7, 2026)
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/05/home-on-range-no-more-trump-wants-bison.html
“In the Village” —San Diego Poetry Annual (2025)
https://sandiegopoetryannual.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/kowit-finalists-2025.jpg
“In the Office, March 2020” — Oberon poetry magazine (2025)
“In Memoriam” — Grey Sparrow
https://grey-sparrow-press.com/40-in-memoriam-debbie-benson/
“Ambulance Rides” — Radar Poetry
https://www.radarpoetry.com/ambulance-rides
“Lines Written on the 20th Anniversary of My Father’s Death” — Antioch Review
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7723/antiochreview.73.2.0345
“Gluttony” and “Papanasam” — Mid-American Review
https://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/volume-xxxv-no-2/
“Papanasam” — Re-printed by Asheville Poetry Review
https://ashevillepoetryreview.com/the-william-matthews-poetry-prize
“Our Common Fever,” “After My Father Died,” and “On Dualism” — The Cape Rock
https://www.newpages.com/blog/magazines/magazine-reviews/the-cape-rock-2014-06/
“Memory” — Best New Poets 2013
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4809/
The Dead Outnumber — Limited edition chapbook, Finishing Line Press
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-dead-outnumber-by-debbie-benson/
“The Men-Gobblers” — Enizagam 2011
“Uchi Vallai” — december
https://www.newpages.com/blog/blog-items/decembers-2016-jeff-marks-memorial-poetry-prize-winners/
“The Poet Dictator” — elimae
https://www.cooprenner.com/2008/July/Poet.html
“In Praise of Prior Wisdom” — Barrow Street (Summer 2007)
https://barrowstreet.org/press/journal/
“Account of My Daughter” — Southern California Review
“On Storytelling” — Don’t Abuse the Muse
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Abuse-Muse-Middlefinger-Fiction/dp/0972658823
“On Hard Determinism,” “On Resisting Divinity,” and “A Direct Address” — LIT
“On Transportation” — CROWD
“On Disregard” — 2002 Emily Dickinson Award Anthology
Earlier poems also published in Good Foot and La Petite Zine