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…
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.
Yes, my friends, this is a thing that’s happening IRL!
Please join me in expressing my heartfelt thanks to The Iowa Review editors Lynne Nugent and Jen Frantz for selecting my poems, “Pelvic Organ Prolapse” (photo included below) and “The Shape of Unsayable,” for publication in TIR’s issue 54.1 (spring 2024). I’ll post an update when the link to order copies of this issue is available.
Thank you Pleiades editors Jenny Molberg and Caitlin Cowan for selecting my In-titled Poem, “Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia,” for inclusion in the beautiful SPRING 2024 issue’s Special Folio: On Disability, ed. by Olivia Ellisor and Kennedy Horton.
Another In-titled Poem has found its perfect home in cyberspace! Thanks to lovely editors Andrea, Clara, and Jeff of Panoply, my poem, “Writer’s Block is a Bitch,” which also happens to be a Petrarchan sonnet (because I’m just like that…), is now published in issue 27. I’m especially proud and pleased that my poem appears alongside my husband, Robert Okaji’s awesome excursion into feline metaphysics, and a host of other luminous poetry and short prose.
I’m honored and excited to share the news that my poems, “Neurodivergent” (see below) and “Presentiment (*cento),” appear in the gorgeous literary review published out of Suffolk University, Salamander Magazine #57, Fall / Winter 2023-2024. Please do visit the link provided for information on accessing individual copies of the issue and/or becoming an online or print version subscriber.
I’d like to express my heartfelt appreciation to EIC Dr. José Angel Araguz for selecting my poems for inclusion in this luminous issue, and for facilitating an all-around rewarding publishing experience!
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