FORTHCOMING WORK
Little Liza Jane documentary film. Production filming November 2025 in New Orleans.
manuscripts in progress
I am developing a book of poetry and a book of short fiction, the poems and stories of which have appeared widely in literary magazines. I am also developing a book of nonfiction musicology devoted to the origins and meanings of the folk song “In the Pines.”
MOST RECENT BOOK PUBLICATION
Poor Gal: The Cultural History of “Little Liza Jane.” University Press of Mississippi, American Made Music Series (nonfiction, November 27, 2023). Now available. Also see the Poor Gal page of my website for more information.
SELECT MAGAZINE PIECES / VOCALS AVAILABLE ONLINE
“Yay! Clubby A-Holes” poem, DIAGRAM, 2025
Live at the Black Cat! album, Fanoplane, 2025
“Repetition Is a Benevolent Deity” poem, JMWW, 2024
“The Key in My Pocket Existed Me” poem, Bennington Review, 2024
“In Speaking Like Thunder” lyrics and vocals, Joy on Fire, 2023.
States of America (album), Joy on Fire, Procrastination Records, 2022
“The Fox Who Loves Me + Other Developments in the Faunal & Floral Kingdoms” poem, Best American Poetry Blog Pick of the Week, 2022
“Unknown City” lyrics and vocals, Joy on Fire, 2021
Three Poems, DIAGRAM, 2021
”The Emporium of Youth” poem, 8 Poems, 2021
”Half of Me” short story, storySouth, 2020
”In the Twilight, in the Twilight Corrupted by Indifferent Lumens” flash fiction, The Scores, 2020
”Thunderdome” official music video, lyrics and vocals, Joy on Fire, 2019
”Prodrome” and “I Feel Like Inwardness” poems, Passages North, 2018
”The Twelve Twenty” short story, Split Lip, 2016
”Like Airplanes and Stars” flash fiction, Map Literary, 2016
”Industrial Plaza, Late Afternoon” and “Fractions” poems Ucity Review, 2014
”On Sensitivity: A Brief Philosophy of Political Choice” prose poem, Beltway, 2013
”Riot Swap” prose poem, Delirious Hem, 2012
“The Disease, Then, But A Constellation” flash fiction, Poets & Writers, 2011
”Grade Inflation” short story, The Good Men Project Magazine, 2011
”Ask the Author: Daniel Gutstein” interview, PANK, 2010
”Merryland” poem, Verse Daily, 2007
Also see my blog, BLOOD AND GUTSTEIN