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