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”
Americaan Poetry Review: “O, Lucia” and “She Must Not Be,” forthcoming
Bennington Review: “The Girl Who Had Never Been Born,” forthcoming
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
The Night Heron Barks: “Dear Lucia—” Fall 2023
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
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”