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Poetry

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Awards and Honors

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Winner, National Poetry Day Competition (for Choices)

Your Fire Magazine 2021

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2nd place (for The Destination)

Shelley Poetry Competition 2022

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Nominated for Best of the Net 2023

3rd place (for After You Left)

East Ridge Review's Three Notch'd Poetry Contest 2022

 

Finalist

Harbor View Washburn Prize 2022

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Finalist 

Lefty Blondie Press Chapbook Contest 2023

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Finalist (for Rodeo Winner)

Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize 2023

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Semifinalist

Quartz Literary Fiction and Poetry Contest 2022

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Longlisted (chapbook)

Block Party Press

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Semifinalist (chapbook)

Eggtooth Editions

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Special Mention (chapbook)

Kari Ann Flickinger Biennial Memorial Literary Prize 2023

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Finalist 

HAL Prize, Peninsula Pulse, 2022 and 2023

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Shortlisted

Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2023

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Published Poems

 

These poems have been published, or

accepted for publication.

 

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A Math Relationship Problem in 5 Lines

Poetry Soup

 

Absolute: for Ukraine

New York Quarterly

 

After the Suspension

Soul Poetry Society "Quintessence" anthology

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After You Left

East Ridge Review

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Alterations

Last Stanza Poetry Journal (long listed for The Plough 2022 Poetry Prize)

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Bass Napping

Poet's Choice "Gone out fishing: prose poems"

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Poetica Review

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Blackened Catfish

Cathexis Northwest Press

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Breckenridge

Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine

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Choices

Your Fire Magazine

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Clean Laundry

Belletrist Magazine

 

Crotona Park, 1921

Last Stanza Poetry Journal

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Diners

Panoplyzine

 

Dracula. Jesus Christ Superstar.

Drunk Monkeys

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Elegy for a Long Hauler

Ariel’s Dream

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Fog Carves Time

Penn Review

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Ghost Ship

The Rumpus

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Hindsight is a Map

Palooka Magazine

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How I Learned to Smoke Cigarettes

Crosswinds Poetry Journal

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Howth, Ireland

The Ocotillo Review

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I See Your Ghost

Cowboy Jamboree Magazine

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I Would Be That Bud

Stone Canoe

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I Write My Own Obituary to Avoid Speculation 

The Awakenings Review

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Ice and the Pandemic

Long Covid Reader

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If We Cannot Speak

The Apple Tree

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In a Lower East Side Apartment

The Apple Tree

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In Dreams Cars Flew

Palooka Magazine

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In Watermelon Sugar

Last Leaves Magazine 

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Insomnia

OpenDoor Poetry Magazine "While I Sleep"​

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Kiddush, After Services

Jewish Literary Journal 

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Leaving Florida

High Shelf Press

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Less Than a Survivor

Wingless Dreamer "Snowdrops"

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Like Mercury

New Verse News

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Long Haul Year Two

Journal of Expressive Writing

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Montana, 1975

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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My Faith in Dogs is a Purple Bruise

The Phare

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Obsession

The Apple Tree

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Parachute

The Awakenings Review

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Questions We Ask Ourselves

New Verse News

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Restless

The Awakenings Review 

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Sitting Shiva, After the Tree of Life Shooting

Songs of Eretz Poetry Review

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Snowstorm

The Apple Tree

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Speechless

Poet's Choice

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St. Martin Honeymoon

Muddy River Poetry Review

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Stasis

Palooka Magazine

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States of Ungrace

Poetica Review

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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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Still Life With Pear

Persimmon Tree

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Summer Concert

Poem Village 2023, Saranac Lake, NY

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The Day You Didn’t Leave

The Raven’s Perch

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The Destination

Writing Magazine

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The Gift

Plainsongs

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The Last Fire Tower

Stone Poetry Quarterly

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The Lathe

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance

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Tigers in Michigan

Belletrist Magazine

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Una Clase de Ingles en el Border

Third Wednesday

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Under the Weather

Chronogram

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Up She Rises

Stories and Poems in the Song of Life

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Waiting for Foxes

One Art: a journal of poetry

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We Line Up the Truth in Photographs

Last Stanza Poetry Journal

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We Carry

Bullets into Bells

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What You Missed

Champagne Room Literary Journal

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When I Think About Prayer

Jewish Writing Project

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Write It Down

The Awakenings Review

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Books

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Richard Brautigan's Concussion: poems is available from Bottlecap Press!  

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How to Rob a Convenience Store: poems will be published in chapbook form by Cowboy Jamboree Press in 2024.

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Funeral and Memorial Service Readings Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999)

 

Words can fail even the most articulate when called upon to speak at a loved one's funeral or memorial occasion. The bereaved desires to say something meaningful, yet services are often held so quickly that there is little time to find something appropriate at the library or bookstore.


This book is a collection of poetry and prose appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service. To assist the reader in finding a suitable passage, the book is divided into eleven chapters. There are tributes for mothers; fathers; children; spouses and soulmates; friends; siblings and other close relatives; soldiers and victims of war or violence; pets; and general readings appropriate for men, women, or any loved one.

 

These selections will also prove helpful for clergy, counselors, and hospice, hospital, and funeral professionals. Appendices list resources and support organizations, and each selection is indexed by author, title, and first line. A special additional index references pieces by famous uses, such as in a film, novel, or celebrity's funeral, so readers can locate a passage they remember from its context.

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To purchase, visit:

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McFarland Publishers

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Amazon

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Northshire Bookstore

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The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza

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