Publications & Prizes

Publications & Prizes

Awards and Recognitions

Writing the Significant Soil, winner of the 2021 Homebound Poetry Prize, published by Wayfarer Books.

Writing the Significant – First place in the 2023 Communications Contest of the Virginia Professional Communications Association

UPDATE: Writing the Significant Soil wins first place in the 2023 communications contest of the National Federation Press Women

Rebecca Lard Award Winner 2018 for my poem “First and Last

2016 GFT Press Chapbook Contest Grand Prize Winner Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson

Honorable Mention 2019 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize Geographies of the Dead

Honorable Mention 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize All Night over Bones

Quarterfinalist: 2017 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award  Dark Fathers

Pushcart Prize Nominations:

”Taconic Orogeny” nominated 2016 by Vine Leaves Literary Journal

”The Work of the Body” nominated 2016 by Touch: The Journal of Healing

Publications

Thank you to all the editors of the following publishers, journals and e-zines:

Books

Anthologies:

Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry 1980:

 “On the Pavement”

Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print):

 “All Journeys”
“Samuel Clemens’ Cat”

The Power of the Feminine (Thresh Press 2024):

  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
    • “Anna’s Lament”
    • “Nejma – First Passage”

The Poetry Society of Virginia Centennial Anthology

  • “The Invention of Zero”
  • “The Relative Bending of Time”

Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands

  • “Cloud Chamber”
  • “Alamogordo – July 16, 1945”
  • “Nuclear Winter”

Journals and eZines:

50 Haikus

  • “April Haiku 1”
  • “April Haiku 2”
  • “Tradition”

Aji Magazine

Allegro Poetry Magazine

Alura

The American Journal of Poetry

  • “Bequest”

American Tanka

The Arkansan Review

Arlington Literary Journal

Artemis Journal

  • “After the Next Last Disaster”
  • “History in Moonfall”
  • “Nejma – Last Passage”
  • “Pantheism”
  • Perfumes of Abandonment

The Bacon Review

Backchannels

The Big Windows Review

The Birds we Piled loosely

  • “Bad Dreams” (p. 49)
  • “Four Ambiguous Quatrains” (p. 61)
  • “The Scorpion’s Psalm” (p. 23)

Blue Heron Review

Blue Unicorn

  • Hungry Inside
  • “Season of Disgrace”
  • “The Wilderness”

Buddhist Poetry Review

  • “Awakening”
  • “Becoming the Light”
  • “Uncrossed Frontier”

Burningword Literary Journal

Carbon Culture Review

Centrifuge

  • “A Stark and Minimalist Poem”

Chantwood Magazine

  • “The Druid”
  • “The Gatekeeper”

Crosswinds Poetry Journal

  • “An Old Chaos (Sunday Morning)”
  • “Communion- The First”
  • “Division”
  • “Killing Points”

Clementine Unbound (Clementine Poetry Journal)

  • Last Journal
  • “Now Is Not the Time to Talk about Guns”

Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts

  • “The Politics of Prayer”

The Crucible

  •  “Ex-voto”

Dark Matter

Deadly Writers Patrol

  •  “Marine”
  • “Reclaiming the Ho Chi Minh Trail”
  • “War Memories”

december magazine

  • “Eclipse Unseen”
  • “For Bill Shuter (Last Attempt)”
  • “Fragments of Color”
  •  “Ghazal: Clarity of the Absolute”
  • “Psalms in Pieces”

Dime Show Review

Dual Coast Magazine

Earthwise Literary Calendar

  • “Spring Fragment”

Empty Sink Publishing

FLARE: The Flagler Review

The Flexible Persona

  • “Brittle Adoration”

Folia

Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review

The Free Lance

GFT Press One in Four

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Gravel Magazine

  • “The Art of Disharmony”
  • “Birth Season”
  • “Black Vultures”
  • “Genetic Geologies”
  • “River and Father”

Great River Review

Haiku Journal

  • “Haiku – October”

Half Mystic

  • “Frost Music”

Haunted Waters Press

Heart and Mind Zine

  • “The Desert Rains”

Heron Tree

Hole in the Head Review

  • “Seaward”

Hound

Hungry Chimera

Hurricane Review

  • “A Matter of Gravity”
  • “A Way Home”
  • “Annunciation”
  • Anthropology”
  • “Aurora”
  • “Caregiver’s Song”
  • “Childless”
  • “Consilience”
  • “Continuity”
  • Covenential
  • “CQ, the Sunset?”
  • “Don’t Go Near the Edge”
  • “Eyeopening”
  • “Falling Again”
  • “Formulary”
  • “Gibbous”
  • “Hope is a Song”
  • “In a Winter of Ice and Stars”
  • “Katrina Orphan”
  • “Light Pollution”
  • “mu”
  • “On the Morning of the Third Day – Alamogordo”
  • “On the White Surf”
  • “Orange”
  • “Poetics”
  • “Preface: Clouds of Unknowing”
  • “Pregnancy”
  • “Scientia: A Play of Voices”
  • “Scientist uses Astronomy to understand population distribution”
  • “Song of the Urban Dandelion”
  • “Tanaka 2”
  • “Tanaka of Cats”
  • “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle”
  • ”The Sea as Seen in Fragments”
  • “Theology of Atmosphere”
  • “Three Photographs”
  • “Time Management”
  • “Too Much Too Little”

The Ideate Review

  • “The Exile of Brotherhood”
  • “Shadows of Ancestors”

Into the Void Magazine

  • “Conservation of Matter and Energy”

Inwood Indiana

iō Literary Journal

Journal of the Blue Ridge Writers

  • “Alien”
  • “Astronomer of Hunger”
  • “Attar and Quaver”
  • “The Biography of Tools”
  • “The Fact of Hummingbird”
  • “The Sap Runs in Spring

LEAD Virginia Newsletter – 2010

  • “Red Clay Sunrise”

Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry

  • “Fecundity”
  • “Four Measure Rest”
  • “Infinity of Nothing”
  • “Submission”
  • “Ways of Seeing”

Literature Today

  • “Echoes in Green”
  • “Eden”
  • “Murder in the Garden”
  • “The Exile’s Bride”
  • “The Nostalgia of Frisbees”

The Magnolia Review

The MacGuffin

  • “First Birthday”
  • “Silence Lacks its Author”
  • “Walking South on Water Street”

Manzano Mountain Review

  • “Transcendental Equation”
  • “The Wilderness”

Meat for Tea: The Valley Review

  • “Angle Street”
  • “Crafting the Void”
  • “Natural Supernaturalism”
  • “On the Road, 1972”
  • “Whitman Deconstructed”
  • “Wrestling Proteus on the Beach”

Mono

The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry

  • “A Mist Path”

Mystic Blue Review

Nourish

  • “Śūnyatā 2”

On the Rusk

The Pangolin Review

Parentheses Journal

Peeking Cat Poetry (UK)

petrichor

Piedmont Literary Review

The Piedmont Virginian Magazine

Plum Tree Tavern

The Poet

Poetry Quarterly

The Raven’s Perch

Red Earth Review

Red Queen Literary Magazine

The Red Wheelbarrow Review (previously The Red Savina Review)

  • “Names for the Earth”
  • “Prayer of Vapor”
  • “Stone Birds”
  • “Verbal”

Ripples

Route 7 Review

  • “Emily’s Ghost Machine” (p. 82)

Rust and Moth

The Scapegoat Review

The Sea Letter

  • “The Exile is His Desk”

Sky Island Journal

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Spare Parts Literary Magazine

Spirit Wind Poetry

Stone Country

Stoneboat Literary Journal

  • “Recapitulation”

Summerset Review

Tanka Journal

  • “Tanka: In a streak of blue”

Temenos Journal

These Fragile Lilacs Poetry Journal

Three Line Poetry

Touch: : The Journal of Healing

Two Cities Review

V Press LC Anthology

Vine Leaves Literary Journal

Virginia Writers Club Journal

  • “Above and Within” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
  • “Barter” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)
  • “Become the Ancestor” (April 2021 issue)
  • “Carrying Rich Darkness” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
  • “Become the Ancestor” (April 2021 issue)
  • “Cloud Physics” (April 2021 issue)
  • “Composition for Logs and Fireplace” (April 2021 issue)
  • “Creativity” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)
  • “Epigenesis” (May 2021 issue)
  • “The Essential Oxymoron” (April issue)
  • “Fog, Water and Asking” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
  • “Migration of the Soul” (May 2021 issue)
  • “The Numerology of Weather”
  • “Retail Poetics” (April 2021 issue)
  • “Shards 24” (April 2021 issue) 
  • “Transmigration” (May 2021 issue)
  • “Visiting an Abandoned Barn in January” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)

Voices on the Wind

  • “Dragon Teeth Mountains – First Extract”
  • “Hills like Blue Smoke”
  • “The Human Abstract”
  • “Meditation”
  • “Meditations in Blue”
  • “The Naming”
  • “The Pizzeria”
  • “Pluperfect Landscape with Being”

The Voices Project

Walloon Writers Review

  • “Superior Night”
  • “Dawn beside Black Lake
  • “Two-Hearted”

The Wayfarer

  • “An Answer in Passage”
  • “The Crows and the Dove”

The Wayne Literary Review

Weary Blues Magazine

  • “Apparition”
  • “Brilliant Victory”

The Write Place at the Write Time

The Yellow Chair Review

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