“For Cummins, the exterior world offers up solace, its ‘inhuman beauty’ acting as antidote to human pain. In the end, these poems look to the world in order to discover what makes us most human.”
From The Georgia Review, Judith Kitchen
“The poet’s touch also is light and full of wonder, writing about the natural with such precise language we can see in detail a moth on the screen, the intricate pattern of its “flocked arrangement of dust.” Cummins is alert to everything in these poems, and thus becomes a kind of Virgil for us, a wise, attentive guide through the darkness that propels us ‘not toward death, but into radiant life.’”
Betsy Sholl, author of House of Sparrows
Periodicals
“Moth”and “A Prayer” (Maine Arts Journal, 2020)
“Coming Again to the Woods” (JuxtaProse, Spring 2019)
“What Slick Home Design Magazines Don’t Ask” (Deep Water, January 2018)
“Daybreak” (Shenandoah, Spring 2018)
“More” (Cloudbank 13, 2019)
“Where’s Your Hammer, Dad?” (Tar River Poetry, Spring 2019)
“Overnight on the Interstate” (The Maine Review, Summer 2017)
“On Halloween” (Deep Water, October 2016)
“Moth” (Orion, October 2016)
Other Publications
"Before It's Too Late," Virginia Center for the Arts 40th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, October 2011.
“At Ames Pond,” Ames Pond, exhibition catalogue, Isaslos Fine Art, July 2007
“At a Certain Age,” American Life in Poetry syndicated newspaper column, January 2008
“Just One God,” The Writer’s Almanac, NPR, December 15, 2006
“Another Life,” The Writer’s Almanac, NPR, October 5, 2006
“Sunday Morning, Late August,” The Writer’s Almanac, NPR, July 12, 2006
“Passage” and “My Mind’s Eye Opens Before the Light Gets Up,” Versedaily
“To the Days Lost in August,” Poetry Daily