 From 2015 to 2018, he served as Writer-in-Residence at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky.His collections of poems include "Ripening" (Ohio State University Press, 1984) for which he was named Ohio Co-Poet of the Year in 1985, "Possible Debris" (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1988), "Mill and Smoke Marrow", appearing in the four-book collection "A Red Shadow of Steel Mills" (Bottom Dog Press, 1991), "Garden" (Word Press 2002), "Alive in Hard Country" (Bottom Dog Press, 2003) and named 2004 Poetry Book of the Year by the Appalachian Writers Association, "The Time It Takes Light" (Word Press, 2004), and "Lives of The Poem" (Wind Publications, 2005), as well as five chapbooks, "Crossings", "A Week of Nights Down River", "A Bestiary", "Greatest Hits