Poetry

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Awards and Honors
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Semi-Finalist
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024
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Finalist
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Finalist
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Longlisted
Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize 2024
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Honorable Mention
Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival 2024
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Semi-Finalist
MacGuffin’s 29th Annual Poet Hunt Contest 2024​​
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Finalist
Lefty Blondie Press Chapbook Contest 2023
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Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize 2023, 2025​
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Longlisted (chapbook)
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Shortlisted
Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2023
Semifinalist (chapbook)
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Special Mention (chapbook)
Kari Ann Flickinger Biennial Memorial Literary Prize 2023
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Nominated for Best of the Net 2023​
East Ridge Review's Three Notch'd Poetry Contest 2022
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Finalist
HAL Prize, Peninsula Pulse, 2022 and 2023
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2nd place
Shelley Poetry Competition 2022
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Finalist
Harbor View Washburn Prize 2022
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Semifinalist
Quartz Literary Fiction & Poetry Contest 2022
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Longlisted
Five South 2022
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Honorable Mention
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Winner, National Poetry Day Competition
Your Fire Magazine 2021​​​​
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Published Poems
These poems have been published by
the journals indicated.
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A Math Relationship Problem in 5 Lines
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Soul Poetry Society "Quintessence" anthology
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After You Left
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Air, or What Becomes of a Covid Long Hauler After Three Years and Still no Answers
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Alterations
Last Stanza Poetry Journal (long listed for The Plough 2022 Poetry Prize)
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Amphibian
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Poet's Choice "Gone out fishing: prose poems"
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Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine
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Choices
Your Fire Magazine
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Dracula. Jesus Christ Superstar.
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For Ellen
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History of History of IUDs Part I: 1970s Quiz
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How I Learned to Smoke Cigarettes
Crosswinds Poetry Journal
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How to Rob a Convenience Store
Howth, Ireland
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I Write My Own Obituary to Avoid Speculation
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In a Lower East Side Apartment
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Hudson Valley Writers Guild, 2024
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In Watermelon Sugar
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Insomnia
OpenDoor Poetry Magazine "While I Sleep"​
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Kinky Friedman, You Held Me: a Texas Sonnet
Texas Wind anthology, Cowboy Jamboree Press
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High Shelf Press
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Wingless Dreamer "Snowdrops"
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Like Beatniks
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Like Mercury
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CAPS Poetry 25th Anniversary Anthology
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Around the World: Landscapes & Citiscapes; selected for Jewels in the Queen's Crown: The Best of the Best anthology) and in Front Porch Review
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More Precious Than Refrigerator Magnets
My Faith in Dogs is a Purple Bruise
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My Lungs Betray Me Again
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Obsession
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Over the Rainbow
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Rodeo Winner
(Finalist, 2023 HAL Prize, Finalist, 2023 Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize)
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Sitting Shiva, After the Tree of Life Shooting
Long listed for the 2023 Palette Previously Published Poetry Award
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Sofa/Headphones/An Old Walther PPK
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Steering, My Hands on the Wheel, Listening to Willie
Nelson
Red Headed Writing Anthology, Cowboy Jamboree Press
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Persimmon Tree​​, Finalist, Stephen DiBiase Poetry Contest 2025
St. Martin Honeymoon
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Poem Village 2023, Saranac Lake, NY
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Surfaces
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That Place You Go
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The Destination
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This is How You Loved Me
Westmoreland Arts Festival Contest 2024
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To See You Happy
Una Clase de Ingles en el Border
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Stories and Poems in the Song of Life
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We Line Up the Truth in Photographs
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Bullets into Bells
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Champagne Room Literary Journal
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Where the River Pauses: A Clare Sonnet
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White Dinner Jackets, Black Bowties
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​Yom Kippur 2022