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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Stephen A. DiBlase Poetry Prize 2023
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Semifinalist
Quartz Literary Fiction and Poetry Contest 2022
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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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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
Soul Poetry Society "Quintessence" anthology
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After You Left
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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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Howth, Ireland
The Ocotillo Review
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I Write My Own Obituary to Avoid Speculation
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Long Covid Reader
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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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Obsession
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Sitting Shiva, After the Tree of Life Shooting
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St. Martin Honeymoon
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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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Poem Village 2023, Saranac Lake, NY
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The Destination
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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 will be published in chapbook form by Cowboy Jamboree Press in 2024.



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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