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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

Heartwood Poetry Prize 2024

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Finalist

Yellow Arrow Publishing 2024

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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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Finalist

Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize 2023, 2025​

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Longlisted (chapbook)

Block Party Press 2023

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Shortlisted

Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2023

 

Semifinalist (chapbook)

Eggtooth Editions 2023

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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

Atlantis Award 2022

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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 Field of White

The Passionfruit Review

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A Math Relationship Problem in 5 Lines

Poetry Soup

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Absolute: for Ukraine

New York Quarterly

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After the Suspension

Soul Poetry Society "Quintessence" anthology

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After You Left

East Ridge Review

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Air, or What Becomes of a Covid Long Hauler After Three Years and Still no Answers

A Plate of Pandemic

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Alterations

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

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Amphibian

Willows Wept Review

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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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Christmas in Florida

The Prose Poem

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Clean Laundry

Belletrist Magazine

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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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For Ellen

The Bark Magazine

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Ghost Ship

The Rumpus

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Hindsight is a Map

Palooka Magazine

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History of History of IUDs Part I: 1970s Quiz

The Anti-Misogyny Club

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How I Learned to Smoke Cigarettes

Crosswinds Poetry Journal

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How to Rob a Convenience Store

Book of Matches

 

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, 2022

Hudson Valley Writers Guild, 2024

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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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Kinky Friedman, You Held Me: a Texas Sonnet

Texas Wind anthology, Cowboy Jamboree Press

 

Last Kosher Butcher

Book of Matches

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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 Beatniks

Active Muse

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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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Look Down at Coyotes With Me

CAPS Poetry 25th Anniversary Anthology

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Looking for Winter

Willows Wept Review

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Minor Key

Active Muse

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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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More Precious Than Refrigerator Magnets

Empire Poetry Verse Anthology

 

My Faith in Dogs is a Purple Bruise

The Phare

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My Lungs Betray Me Again

A Plate of Pandemic

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Obsession

The Apple Tree

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Over the Rainbow

Yellow Arrow

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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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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

Songs of Eretz Poetry Review

Long listed for the 2023 Palette Previously Published Poetry Award

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Snowstorm

The Apple Tree

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Sofa/Headphones/An Old Walther PPK

The Prose Poem

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Speechless

Poet's Choice

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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​​, Finalist, Stephen DiBiase Poetry Contest 2025

 

St. Martin Honeymoon

Last Stanza Poetry Journal

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Summer Concert

Poem Village 2023, Saranac Lake, NY

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Surfaces

Book of Matches

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That Place You Go

Tiny Moments Anthology #2

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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

Dead Pets Poetry Anthology

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The Lathe

The Apple Tree

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This is How You Loved Me

Westmoreland Arts Festival Contest 2024

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Tigers in Michigan

Belletrist Magazine

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To See You Happy

The Apple Tree

 

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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When There is No Air

A Plate of Pandemic

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Where the River Pauses: A Clare Sonnet

Hudson Valley Writers Guild

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White Dinner Jackets, Black Bowties

Hudson Valley Writers Guild

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Write It Down

The Awakenings Review

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​Yom Kippur 2022

Jewish Poets Collective Journal

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