Poetry was my first love, and over the years I have been lucky enough to publish over 150 poems in print and on-line journals. My writing community calls me “the submission queen” because I’ve been able to break the barrier of self-doubt and negativity that most people experience when getting work rejected (and believe me, I get tons of rejections!) I write about the submission process (the good, the bad, and the ugly) in my blog, Music and Musings.  Check it out!

Please feel free to peruse some of my poems that are on line, linked below. And if you like them and want a bigger selection you can also order one of my chapbooks: HERE IN SANCTUARY–WHIRLING or WOLF IN THE SUITCASE.

You can also listen to me reading some of my poems here!

Sampling of Poems On Line

Rattle–In My Heart

Lumina Journal–Penumbra

RockPaperPoem–Aspirations

Touchstone–Duplex: Origins   

River Heron Review–Cows

Saranac Review–Tashlich

Twyckenham Notes–Bethlehem 

Trouvaille Review–We Are Stuck in October 

Mass Poetry–The Hard Work of Hope–Amen   

Passengers Journal–Tell Me What You Know About Dismemberment 

Pensive Journal–Concert       

Kairos–Cicatrix

Red Ogre Review–Joy

Reckoning–We Have So Little Time Left   

Cathexis NW Press–Snake; A Father is Only as Good as the Treehouse He Never Builds    

Strawdog Writers Pandemic Project–Alphabet Book for 2020  

Gordon Square Review–What I Might Say to Death   

The Primer–Mattering

New Feathers Anthology–Ruby, Isolation, Please Don’t Tell Me About Your Dreams       

The Bluebird World–Because the Wind is Rising and This Week There was a Microburst   

Action, Spectacle–Ode to Scales 

Spank the Carp–Piano      

San Antonio Review–Labyrinth, Desideratum   

Anderbo–Consider the Turnip; Instructions for Spelunking       

Cider Press Review–The World Ends in the Car, Pulling Dead Leaves in the Time of Coronavirus

Midway Journal– Salad

Wordpeace–I’ve Just Folded This Poem Into an Airplane, Refugee Camp: Matamoros; Valentine’s Day, What if Our Leaders

What Rough Beast–Lessons in Portaging, Dark Country, When Despair for the World Grows in Me, Policy for Whales, Rules for Behaving in the Airport Line 

Parcham–Because the Deacon Couldn’t Sleep

Subprimal–Sabotage       

 

HAPPY TO ALSO HAVE POEMS INCLUDED IN THESE WONDERFUL ANTHOLOGIES:

What We Talk When We Talk About It: Variations on the Theme of Love, Darkhouse Books 

America is Not the World, Pankhearst Press 

The Black River: Death Poems, Natureculture Press