Latest News:
My poem “Because every
moment’s an occasion for attention” won the 2022 Slippery Elm
Poetry Contest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I will be the judge for
the 2023 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, deadline February 1, 2023: Contest Guidelines – Slippery Elm (findlay.edu).
My poem "Emily Carr’s
Zunoqua of the Cat Village, 1931" was nominated for Best of the Net by OyeDrum.
My poem “Playing for the Lost,” inspired by Kees Van
Dengen’s 1920 painting The Violinist, was published
in Volume 7.2, Winter 2022 issue of Sheila-Na-Gig
online.
My poem inspired by Frida Kahlo’s 1949 painting titled “The
Love Embrace of the Universe” was published in the journal Persimmon
Tree.
My poem inspired by Remedios Varo’s 1948 painting “The Flautist” was published in The
Ekphrastic Review.
Heron
Tree published “Dear Mother, last night I dreamt,” my found poem created
from “The Pomegranate Seeds” in Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853).
My
poem, “Calving at
Glacier Bay,” appeared in the ONE GOOD MEMORY Series of Silver
Birch Press. It was originally
published in my chapbook, Inner
Passage (Red Bird
Chapbooks) and my collection Swim Your Way Back (Dos Madres Press).
My poem inspired by Canadian
artist Emily Carr’s 1930 painting “Guyasdom’s D’Sonoqua” was published in The Ekphrastic Review
December 5, 2022.
My found poem “Totem,” created
from Canadian artist Emily Carr’s painting titles, was published in Issue 22 of
Panoply.
My poem “Shadow Travel” was included in The
Ekphrastic Review challenge to write about Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting “The
Persistence of Memory,” 1931.
