Qarrtsiluni published my poem about my maternal grandfather, “About the Laying-on of Bricks not Hands” in their Worship issue back in October 2011. Part of their process was having poets record a reading of the poem. My voice actually does the content of this serious narrative poem justice, I think.
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Award News: Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2023 Contests
I just found out this morning that two of my poems have been awarded Third Place in two categories of the Oregon Poetry Association Fall 2023 adult contests. The first, “provenance,” has placed in the Members Only category—the category name explains itself….
Publication News: Clackamas Literary Review
In the dark days of 2019, what made a poem political? Was it the subject matter? The tone of voice? Was it engagement with current events, hot-bed issues in the national or regional press? There generally are no final answers to these existential questions.
Babbling Rivers of Poetry
Over the years, a number of my poems were featured at riverbabble, a literary journal that unfortunately is no longer online. riverbabble was founded in Berkeley, California in 2002…
Publication News: “Runaway”
My poem, “Runaway,” appeared in the print collection, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, published by Sundress Publications in 2014. It was also included in my poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar…
The Next Big Thing…
In January 2013, I participated in The Next Big Thing! I can’t remember now who sponsored this poetry interview series. But I recall it was something along the lines of six degrees of separation meets a literary chain letter—…
Memory Lane Chapbook News: The Hours of Us
In many ways, chapbooks have long been—and remain to this day—the lifeblood of poetry publishing. According to the online Oxford English Dictionary, a chapbook is historically “a small pamphlet containing tales, ballads, or tracts, sold by peddlers.” …
Publication News: Halfway Down the Stairs
In December 2018, Halfway Down the Stairs published two of my poems in the “Coming of Age” issue of their quarterly magazine: “A Woman on the Verge of Menopause Looks Back on a Too-Skinny Girl Also on the Verge” and “The Wisdom is Hindsight.” …
Writing in Form: The Villanelle
In Spring 2012, my poem, “A Villanelle While We Wait for a Future When the Other Cheek Is Never Turned,” was published in the Traditional Forms issue of Blast Furnace, Volume 2, No. 2. It also appears in my poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar…
Publication News: “Mercator Projections” in Matter 12
My poem, “Mercator Projections” was published in Issue #12 of Matter in 2015. It was also featured in my poetry collection, Every Door Recklessly Ajar. According to their website, Matter is a (mostly) monthly online journal of “poetry, political commentary, prose…