Publications
J. Todd Hawkins's work has appeared in the following publications.
2020
• "How We Came to Cotton" in Valley Voices (themed issue on Cotton) (forthcoming)
• "Flood Gate" in A Book of the Year by the Poetry Society of Texas
• untitled haiku and "Definitely a Honky Tonk" (haibun) in Haiku Page
• "The World Lit by the Tail Lights of an '82 Buick" in San Pedro River Review (themed issue on the American south)
2019
• untitled haiku in the 2020 Texas Poetry Calendar
• "Whipporwill's-Boots" in juked
• "Bald Mountain, Revisited" in Words in Concert: Poetry Inspired by Classical Music
• "Despair and Hope through Delta Labor in the Poetry of Larry D. Thomas" (critical essay) and "Poor Monkey's Lounge" (visual art: photograph) in Arkansas Review
2018
• "Besides the Music" in Poets Reading the News
• "For He Is Kind unto the Evil" in Poets Reading the News
• "Spoonful of Diamonds" and "Where the Southern Cross the Dog" in Arkansas Review
• "Tractor" in the 2019 Poetry Society of Texas Summer Conference Anthology
• untitled haiku in The Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press)
• "When You Let Him in the Room" in Poets Reading the News
• "Manifesto of the Revolutionary League of Lonely Souls" in Poets Reading the News
• "Remembering Our Life Together as a Cigarette after the Cranberries Show" in Poets Reading the News
• "The History of the End of the World" in Tuck Magazine (visual art: collage)
2017
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Rope" in Poets Reading the News
• "Something Less" in Rattle: Poets Respond (with audio)
• "Leaving Houston" on the Poets Reading the News Year-in-Review on Project Censored Radio Show (audio)
• "The New World" in Contemporary Haibun Online
• "Cento: Hurricane Reel" in Poets Reading the News
• "Leaving Houston" in Poets Reading the News
• "Crazy Drain, or Ozzy at the Alamo" & "Cento: Joshua Tree National Park, Where Gram Parsons Stolen Corpse Was Partially Cremated" in Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Leaving Houston" in Rising Rains: Poetry Concerning Hurricane Harvey (Local Gems Press)
• "Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm" in Four Chambers 05
• "Blues for Murder Only" & "Catfish Row" in The Bitter Oleander
• "Down in the Bottom" in Cheat River Review (University of West Virginia)
• "Mother Rachel's Palm & Card" in Parcel
• "Hill Country Hesperides" in the 2018 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press).
• "Introduction: What the Blues Is" in Found Poetry Review
• "Magdalena Eulogizes Her Outlaw" & "In a Coma, Bob Wills Dreams of His Fiddle" in Southwestern American Literature
2016
• "First Blues" in contemporary haibun online
• "At War with Ghosts" in Unbroken: A Journal of Prose
• "Beekeeping in Mississippi" in Bayou Magazine (University of New Orleans Press)
• "Down Came a Blackbird" in Modern Haiku
• "Field Church" in Poetry and Place Anthology 2015 (Close-Up Books)
• "Grave Decorations" & "Arriving at the Riverside Hotel by Night" in Sakura Review
• "Matchbox Blues" in Illya's Honey
• "Papers in a Vanishing Room," "For the Correction of History," "Death Smells Like Cinnamon" in Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Prayer for a Calf" in Cattlemen & Cadillacs: Poets of the Greater Metroplex (Dallas Poets Community)
• "Tchula" in Akitsu Quarterly
• "Waiting Inland for the Hurricane" in Texas Weather: Poetry, Short Fiction, and Nonfiction (Lamar University Press)
• untitled haiku in the 2017 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
2015
• "Avalon" in Louisville Review (Spalding University Press)
• "Baptist Town" in AGNI (Boston University Press)
• "Hill Country Hesperides" in the 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "New Bethel Road" in Haibun Today
• "New Bethel Road" in Vine Leaves Literary Journal
• "November Missing" and "On the Glories of Graffiti" in Sugared Water
• "The Kudzu," "Stanley's House of Power," "Jelly's Travels," and "Reptiles Inside the Body" in Ginosko Literary Journal
• "Three Forks Store" and "Driving Elvis Back to His Room" in Chiron Review
2014
• "Abracadabra" and "Epiphany #34" in East Coast Literary Review
• "Leaving Lima" in Common Ground Review
• "Osage Friendship Blanket, Late Nineteenth Century" in the 2015 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Teasers Cabaret" in Red River Review
• "The Guard of Sipan," "Blind Willie Johnson," and "Hi Jolly" in The Copperfield Review
• untitled haiku in bottle rockets
• untitled haiku in 50 Haikus
• untitled haiku by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival; received honorable mention in the VCBF haiku invitational competition
2013
• "It Don't Matter Who's in Austin" in the 2014 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Pietro Aretino," "Rope Walker," "Blind Willie Johnson," and "Hi Jolly" in Aries: A Journal of Creative Expression (Texas Wesleyan University Press)
• two untitled haiku and one untitled haiga in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press)
2012
• "Pecos Bill, Aiming" in the 2013 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
2011
• "Waiting Inland for the Hurricane" in the Austin Poetry Society's Best Austin Poetry 2010-2011
• "Prayer for a Calf" in the 2012 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press); received second place in the Texas Poetry Calendar Awards (judged by Barbara Ras)
• "Oil Field Girls" in American Literary Review
• "How We Came to Cotton" in Valley Voices (themed issue on Cotton) (forthcoming)
• "Flood Gate" in A Book of the Year by the Poetry Society of Texas
• untitled haiku and "Definitely a Honky Tonk" (haibun) in Haiku Page
• "The World Lit by the Tail Lights of an '82 Buick" in San Pedro River Review (themed issue on the American south)
2019
• untitled haiku in the 2020 Texas Poetry Calendar
• "Whipporwill's-Boots" in juked
• "Bald Mountain, Revisited" in Words in Concert: Poetry Inspired by Classical Music
• "Despair and Hope through Delta Labor in the Poetry of Larry D. Thomas" (critical essay) and "Poor Monkey's Lounge" (visual art: photograph) in Arkansas Review
2018
• "Besides the Music" in Poets Reading the News
• "For He Is Kind unto the Evil" in Poets Reading the News
• "Spoonful of Diamonds" and "Where the Southern Cross the Dog" in Arkansas Review
• "Tractor" in the 2019 Poetry Society of Texas Summer Conference Anthology
• untitled haiku in The Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press)
• "When You Let Him in the Room" in Poets Reading the News
• "Manifesto of the Revolutionary League of Lonely Souls" in Poets Reading the News
• "Remembering Our Life Together as a Cigarette after the Cranberries Show" in Poets Reading the News
• "The History of the End of the World" in Tuck Magazine (visual art: collage)
2017
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Rope" in Poets Reading the News
• "Something Less" in Rattle: Poets Respond (with audio)
• "Leaving Houston" on the Poets Reading the News Year-in-Review on Project Censored Radio Show (audio)
• "The New World" in Contemporary Haibun Online
• "Cento: Hurricane Reel" in Poets Reading the News
• "Leaving Houston" in Poets Reading the News
• "Crazy Drain, or Ozzy at the Alamo" & "Cento: Joshua Tree National Park, Where Gram Parsons Stolen Corpse Was Partially Cremated" in Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Leaving Houston" in Rising Rains: Poetry Concerning Hurricane Harvey (Local Gems Press)
• "Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm" in Four Chambers 05
• "Blues for Murder Only" & "Catfish Row" in The Bitter Oleander
• "Down in the Bottom" in Cheat River Review (University of West Virginia)
• "Mother Rachel's Palm & Card" in Parcel
• "Hill Country Hesperides" in the 2018 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press).
• "Introduction: What the Blues Is" in Found Poetry Review
• "Magdalena Eulogizes Her Outlaw" & "In a Coma, Bob Wills Dreams of His Fiddle" in Southwestern American Literature
2016
• "First Blues" in contemporary haibun online
• "At War with Ghosts" in Unbroken: A Journal of Prose
• "Beekeeping in Mississippi" in Bayou Magazine (University of New Orleans Press)
• "Down Came a Blackbird" in Modern Haiku
• "Field Church" in Poetry and Place Anthology 2015 (Close-Up Books)
• "Grave Decorations" & "Arriving at the Riverside Hotel by Night" in Sakura Review
• "Matchbox Blues" in Illya's Honey
• "Papers in a Vanishing Room," "For the Correction of History," "Death Smells Like Cinnamon" in Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Prayer for a Calf" in Cattlemen & Cadillacs: Poets of the Greater Metroplex (Dallas Poets Community)
• "Tchula" in Akitsu Quarterly
• "Waiting Inland for the Hurricane" in Texas Weather: Poetry, Short Fiction, and Nonfiction (Lamar University Press)
• untitled haiku in the 2017 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
2015
• "Avalon" in Louisville Review (Spalding University Press)
• "Baptist Town" in AGNI (Boston University Press)
• "Hill Country Hesperides" in the 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "New Bethel Road" in Haibun Today
• "New Bethel Road" in Vine Leaves Literary Journal
• "November Missing" and "On the Glories of Graffiti" in Sugared Water
• "The Kudzu," "Stanley's House of Power," "Jelly's Travels," and "Reptiles Inside the Body" in Ginosko Literary Journal
• "Three Forks Store" and "Driving Elvis Back to His Room" in Chiron Review
2014
• "Abracadabra" and "Epiphany #34" in East Coast Literary Review
• "Leaving Lima" in Common Ground Review
• "Osage Friendship Blanket, Late Nineteenth Century" in the 2015 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Teasers Cabaret" in Red River Review
• "The Guard of Sipan," "Blind Willie Johnson," and "Hi Jolly" in The Copperfield Review
• untitled haiku in bottle rockets
• untitled haiku in 50 Haikus
• untitled haiku by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival; received honorable mention in the VCBF haiku invitational competition
2013
• "It Don't Matter Who's in Austin" in the 2014 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
• "Pietro Aretino," "Rope Walker," "Blind Willie Johnson," and "Hi Jolly" in Aries: A Journal of Creative Expression (Texas Wesleyan University Press)
• two untitled haiku and one untitled haiga in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press)
2012
• "Pecos Bill, Aiming" in the 2013 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press)
2011
• "Waiting Inland for the Hurricane" in the Austin Poetry Society's Best Austin Poetry 2010-2011
• "Prayer for a Calf" in the 2012 Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press); received second place in the Texas Poetry Calendar Awards (judged by Barbara Ras)
• "Oil Field Girls" in American Literary Review
"Ghost Dancers" in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (number 32) in 2009.
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"Playgrounds" in Concho River Review (volume XXIII, number 2) in 2009.
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"Waiting Inland for the Hurricane" in the 2011 Texas Poetry Calendar in 2010; received first place in the Texas Poetry Calendar Awards (judged by Cyrus Cassells).
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"Oil Field Girls" in American Literary Review (volume 22, number 1) in 2011.
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"The Gatherers" in di-vêrsé-city in 2007; received third place in the Christina Sergeyevna Awards.
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"Excerpt from the Poet's Guide to Metallurgy" in di-vêrsé-city in 2008.
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"Study in Nature" in di-vêrsé-city in 2009.
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"The Guard of Sipan" & "Hélène Boucher" in Westview: A Journal of Western Oklahoma (volume 29, number 1) in 2009.
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"Running Away from Home" in Antietam Review (volume XXIV) in 2004.
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Several poems in The Austin Poetry Co-op's The Glass Eye in 2005.
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"Ranch at Star Mountain" in The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South (volume XIII, number 2) in 2007.
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"After Graduation" in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (number 28) in 2007.
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