Poems

Dandelions, Wild Greens, Volume 5, Issue X, Ekphrasis, August 2025

Numbers Frightened Me, published Universal Language July ’25, Boudin, The McNeese Review online

Morning Light, Boudin, The McNeese Review Online, Spring 2025

America’s Favorite Pastime, Honorable Mention, the 2025 E. Ethelbert Miller Prize, The Twin Bill, Opening Day Issue

Saturday Night Fever, The Unbroken Journal, Summer 2024

Ordinary Beauty, Mount Saint Helens, Gordon Square Review, Issue 14, May 2024

Moving Towards a Common Center was chosen as a commended poem and published by The Passionfruit Review in a special issue, Passionfruit Poetry 2023 (available as a downloadable PDF) for prizewinning and commended poems.

Pleasure Garden, Prime Number Issue 241, September – December 2023

I Am an Assimilated Form Striving to Become Unfastened, Wordpeace Issue 8.2, on bodily autonomy, Summer/Fall 2023.

Wawona Hotel, Yosemite: Listening to Frogs in the Snow, Lowestoft Chronicle Summer 2023, Issue 54

On Fire (page 62), Still Point Arts Quarterly, Summer 2023, No. 50 Fires and Floods

Questions for My Student, Questions for Myself, BlueHouse Journal, Issue 6, June 2023

In Mid Afternoon, Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiving, edited by Margaret Stawowy and Jim Cokas (Shanti Arts, 2022)

35,000 Feet Above in a Boeing 737, Rough Cut Press, Issue 40, September 2022

We Worked the Evening Shift and the Casino Paid Us at Midnight, Willawaw Journal, Spring 2022

Factors and Exponents (p. 97) and It Opens. It Closes., Switchgrass Volume 5 2022

Writing Seduction Letters, Sisyphus, Fall 2021

Reading Your Morning Horoscope, Sisyphus, Fall 2021

Riding South on Interstate 70, The MacGuffin, Spring / Summer 2021

For Song and Her Mother, 3rd Wednesday, Spring 2021

Hallelujah (p.212), Blue Mountain Review, February 2021

Like the Scent of Cherry Blossoms, The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2020

Some Days, Northampton Poetry Review Issue 5: Music 2020

Three poems published in Havik 2020: Homebound. The poem Eighteen available online.

Forbidden Fruit, Aji Magazine, Issue 12, Spring 2020

Loneliness and the Seduction of Fairy Tales, Twist in Time Magazine, Issue 7 January 2020

Escalon, Past the Orchards, South 85 Journal Fall/Winter 2019

At the Psychiatrist’s Office, The Ekphrastic Review 9/17/2019

The Dance, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Fall 2019

At the Psychiatrist’s Office (and interview), Rappahannock Review Issue 5.3

Traffic is Traffic Everywhere, Bird’s Thumb, Vol. 6, Issue 1, February 2019

Night Music available to read or download in 3 Elements Review, No. 18, Spring 2018

The following poems received an award at the 2017 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and are available for download in Noyo River Review, Vol. 6, 2017

  • Grief’s Proximity
  • Still Life in Changing Landscape
  • In the Morning After Marital Peace is Restored

At the Oakland Library , *82 Review Issue 4.3, 2016

After Seventeen Years, Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering Our Pets, by Louis Hoffman, Michael Moats, and Tom Greening (University Professors Press, 2016)