Recent Publications:
from the manuscript in progress: A FIRE IN HER BRAIN:
Academy of American Poets poem- a-day series, March 2023, chosen by Diane Seuss, “Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter,” awarded a Pushcart Prize, reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses (forthcoming, 2024)
American Poetry Review: “O, Lucia” and “She Must Not Be,” forthcoming
Ashland Poetry Press Broadside, “Blue Room, Pompeii,” March 2025
Bennington Review: “The Girl Who Had Never Been Born,” issue 13, 2024
Blackbird: “Lucia Anna & Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce” & “Parable,” Spring 2023
Consequence, “Kyiv Zoo, 2022” & “The Whale,” print issue, 2023
Consequence, “At the End of the World,” online, nominated for Best of the Net
The Cortland Review: “Cassandra is Jealous of Her Dog,” February 2024
Hole in the Head Review: “There was a time,” “Still, Flowers,” “Self=Portrait as Panel Painting,” “After Reading that Flaco Flew into a building and Died,” Summer 2024
Montreal International Poetry Anthology, “With Lines from Virginia Woolf, ” forthcoming spring 2025
The Night Heron Barks: “Dear Lucia—” Fall 2023
One Art: “Virginia Woolf in Winter,” "Virginia Woolf Knows the Key to Life But is Not Allowed to Use It,” “Virginia Woolf as We Watch the Children” March 28, 2025 “The Voice,” Broken & Unalive,” “Parable of the zsick Child by the Water,” “Paable of the Sick Child in the City” April 20, 2025
Peste, “Nothing can Cure Her,” 2022
Plume, “A Fire in Her Brain,” “Duplex Beginning with a Line from James Joyce about His Daughter, Lucia,” January 2024
Poetry Northwest, “On the day we had tickets for the Rothko Retrospective,” Winter & Spring 2025
The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow: “Beginning with a Line from Zelda Fitzgerald,” Summer 2023
Poems from If Some God Shakes Your House have been published in:
American Poetry Review: “Memento Mori: Pistachios” and “Biopsy Pantoum”
Barrow Street: “Memento Mori: Vertigo” and “Memento Mori: Muleteer of Pompeii”
Bennington Review: “Antigone’s Hubris” and “Antigone’s Decision”
Blackbird: “Memento Mori: Greek Gold Exhibit,” “June,” “Memento Mori: Annunciation, without Angel,” and “Memento Mori: Lost Children of Tuam”
Broadsided Press: “November [“We unplugged the old television…”]”
Cordella Review: “August,” “Antigone’s Promise,” and “Antigone Hesitates When She Looks at the Dog”
The Cortland Review: “Memento Mori: Moth” and “Memento Mori: Winter”
Gettysburg Review: “Red First, Always”
Indolent Books: “October [“Even though we have done nothing wrong”] and “November [“We look like we have aged nine years over the last four.”]
JAMA: “Memento Mori, Aleppo”
Lily Poetry Review: “Memento Mori: Medieval Scribe” and “Antigone Remembers Her House at the End of the Last Century”
Los Angeles Review: “Memento Mori: Mother after My Treatment”
Love’s Executive Order: “May [“It happens slowly while we are in the kitchen…”] and “May [America’s new disease and old disease keep killing.]”
MER VOX folio: “Antigone Reads Bedtime Books”
New Verse News: “February [“Our long coats are all that separate us from the cold.”]”
The Night Heron Barks: “Antigone Visits the Psychiatric Hospital,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize
On the Seawall: “Memento Mori: Ranunculus” and “February [“This has always been the month of death, I tell the dog…”]”
Ovenbird: “September”
Peste: “June 24, 2022” and “Memento Mori: Colony Collapse”
Pigeon Pages: “Antigone Buries the Body” and “Antigone’s Desire”
Plume: “Antigone Considers Her Father,” “Antigone Considers Her Mother,” “Memento Mori: Central Park Polar Bear,” “Memento Mori: Stradivarius,” and “Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos”
Poetry in Motion, RI/Poetry Society of America: “Memento Mori: Pistachios”
Poetry Northwest: “Memento Mori: Death Mask,”and “Memento Mori: Empty Frames at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum”
Poets Reading the News: “November [“Venice is flooding.”]”
Prometheus Dreaming: “Antigone Contemplates Her Choices at 4:23am”
Re: (A Journal of Ideas): “Memento Mori: Ice Storm” and “July”
Red Eft: “Memento Mori: Volcano”
Salamander: “Memento Mori: Partnering a Runner”
The Scores: “March” and “Mourning Mother”
Sixth Finch: “Memento Mori: Wind Phone”
Small Orange Journal: “Creon Creates His Own Truth”
STATOREC: “Memento Mori: Preparing to Move”
upstreet: “Antigone Admits the Truth”, “Antigone’s Secret”
Valparisio Poetry Review, Tree Lines Anthology & The Bedford Introduction to Literature (Macmillan, 13th ed.) Memento Mori: Apple Orchard”
What Rough Beast, Indolent Books: “Antigone Realizes Why She Loves the Dead”
Plume Anthology 8: “Memento Mori: Bird Head”
Plume Anthology 10: “Memento Mori: Mentor with Late-Stage Lewy Body Dementia”