I’m honored and proud to share that the first section of my seven-section-long poem dedicated to my children, “Everest” (i. A Welcomed Peril), has been included in the inaugural issue of the online journal, 12 Poets. I’m grateful to Lenny DellaRocca and Jeff Santosuosso for offering this piece one of twelve exclusive slots, and I’m humbled by the luminous company I find myself in!
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It’s my awesome privilege to share that two of my poems, “Great Horned Owls” (an In-titled Poem) and “Love Poem with Eight Answers” (written for my magnificent husband, Bob) are now live in the illustrious journal, Cultural Daily! I’m honored and touched that editor Bunkong Tuon selected these pieces for publication.
I’m pleased to share that I have contributed two poems, “Urn” and “Nocturne,” to d ellis phelps’s random beauty ii series at formidable woman sanctuary. Please scroll down to the end of page iii to read my little ditties and take some time to explore some of my co-contributors’ soul-fortifying testaments along the way! Upon accepting my poems for publication, d thanked me for being supportive of fws projects (as a contributor to several series so far), but please know that I believe in the uplifting energy of communal creativity that d curates at fws, and it’s my honor to participate.
My In-titled Poem (inspired by Ross Gay), “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” has finally found its home among the lovely pages of New Feathers Anthology! I’m grateful to EIC Wade Fox for selecting it for publication in the winter 2025 issue. Despite this poem being my all-time record-holder (probably twice over!) for number of rejections received at 47 whoppers, it still happens to be a personal favorite, which I’m ever so pleased and proud to share with you now…
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I’m pleased and honored to share that my poem, “The Final Frontier,” is featured among the radiantly vital (digital) leaves of the just-released Taos Journal of Poetry #15. I’m grateful to editor/publisher/poetess extraordinaire Catherine Strisik for welcoming this piece into TJOP’s splendorous folds. “The Final Frontier” also appears in my newest chapbook, We Have Seen the Corn, released in June 2025 by the lovely independent press and “publishers of fine poetry,” Kelsay Books.
I’m proud to share that Robert Okaji and I both have poems (pasted below) appearing in The Body – An anthology of poetry, an inspiring volume of body-centric poetry (available internationally via Amazon) published by Rough Diamond Poetry Journal. We’re grateful to EIC Charlotte Cosgrove for including our work in this luminous collection.
I’m pleased to share the news that my poem, “Sestina for My Birthright” (a.k.a., “the pickle poem” 😉🥒), has been housed in the loveliest of neighborhoods at Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. I’m grateful to editor Olivia Thomes for selecting this piece for publication.
I’m honored to be a repeat contributor to the very fine online literary entity, Neologism Poetry Journal. I’m grateful to editor Christopher Fields for his impeccable professionalism — not to mention his fantastic sense of humor! — and for selecting for publication my In-titled Poem, “Would You Come Looking for Me?”
Thanks, also, to my dear friend and poetic colleague extraordinaire, Michael Vecchio, for supplying this piece’s title and inspiring (however inadvertently) the shenanigans that ensued…
I’m so pleased to share that my In-titled Poem, “By the Moonlit Water Where the Dombiki Sing,” is now featured in the lovely eco-literary journal, The Dodge. I’m grateful to editors Edward Sambrano III and Jamie A. M. for selecting my work for publication, and for their kindness and enthusiasm, in general, throughout the publication process.
“By the Moonlit Water Where the Dombiki Sing” also appears in my chapbook, We Have Seen the Corn, forthcoming summer 2025 with Kelsay Books, which I’m shamelessly taking advantage of this opportunity to plug, once, again :).
I’m pleased to share with you another of my In-titled Poems, “Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria,” which has been published in issue 3 (Inhale/Exhale) of The Calendula Review, a boldly heartening journal of “creative narrative medicine.” I’m grateful to the editors for including my work.
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