Poetry
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Awards and Honors
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Winner, National Poetry Day Competition
Your Fire Magazine 2021
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2nd place
Shelley Poetry Competition 2022
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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
Harbor View Washburn Prize 2022
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Semifinalist
Quartz Literary Fiction & Poetry Contest 2022
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Finalist
Lefty Blondie Press Chapbook Contest 2023
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Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize 2023
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Passionfruit Review Poetry Prize 2023
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Longlisted (chapbook)
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Semifinalist (chapbook)
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Special Mention (chapbook)
Kari Ann Flickinger Biennial Memorial Literary Prize 2023
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Longlisted
Five South 2022
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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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Honorable Mention
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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
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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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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How I Learned to Smoke Cigarettes
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How to Rob a Convenience Store
Howth, Ireland
The Ocotillo Review
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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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In Watermelon Sugar
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Insomnia
OpenDoor Poetry Magazine "While I Sleep"​
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Like Mercury
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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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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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Sitting Shiva, After the Tree of Life Shooting
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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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St. Martin Honeymoon
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Poem Village 2023, Saranac Lake, NY
Surfaces
That Place You Go
Tiny Moments Anthology #2
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The Destination
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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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Champagne Room Literary Journal
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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 was published by Cowboy Jamboree Press in March, 2024. Available from AbeBooks, Bookshop.org and Amazon.
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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