"There's no use ever actually saying you're a poet, it's a disservice to yourself except for the wonder you can sustain among the moths, but you'd better say it anyway." -Bernadette Mayer, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
Books
- Steep in the Boil, Publishing Genius Press, 2018
- How to have a day, Ink Press Productions, 2015
- Ancient Party: Collaborations in Baltimore, 2000-2010, editor, self-published as Thingy Press, 2014
- A Mountain City of Toad Splendor, Publishing Genius Press, March 2013
Poems and essays online
- "Nutlike fortune," "Vacation poem," and "Dear Bernadette" in Everyone Quarterly 3, 2021
- “Lost Poems” in Fanzine, 2014
- “Other Splendid Cities” Publishing Genius Press blog, 2013
- “Yelling Séance in a Crowded Theater” in WORMS blog, 2011
- "Instructions," "The Brain is a Pleasure Organ," and "11 Irritations That Morning" in Everyday Genius, 2010 and 2012
- “Larding” collaboration with LB Bender and Theresa Columbus, in Superarrow, 2010
- “Scrapbook of the High Zero Festival” High Zero Foundation, 2003
Reviews
- “How to have a day by Megan McShea (book review)” by Adam Robinson, Real Pants, April 5, 2017
- “How to have a day by Megan McShea reviewed by CarlaJean Valluzzi” JMWW, August 19, 2015
- “’Ancient Party’ Documents 10 Years of Collaborative Writing in Baltimore” by Robert O’Brien, April 11, 2014
- “A Mountain City of Toad Splendor by Megan McShea Presented by Blake Bergeron” Noö Journal, Issue [15] 2014
- “Book review: A Mountain City of Toad Splendor, reviewed by C.L. Bledsoe” Coal Hill Review, April 4, 2013
- “A Mountain City of Toad Splendor by Megan McShea, reviewed by Peter Fontaine” Nanofiction, September 2, 2013
- Reviews on Goodreads
Interviews
- “CV Talks with Megan McShea, à la Paris Review” by Jeff Jackson, Charlotte Viewpoint, August 6 2013
- "Let Language Misbehave: Stephanie Barber Interviews Megan McShea" Publishing Genius Press blog, March 21, 2013
- “The Accidental Artist: Experimental Writing that Aims for a Broad Audience” by Bret McCabe, CityPaper, March 20, 2013
- "Baltimore Poet Helps Bring Rare Ted Berrigan Anne Waldman Video Footage Into Public Record" by Bob O'Brien, Baltimore Fishbowl, June 11, 2013