Writing

The Last Two

POETRY ONLINE

“Vinegar,” Santa Fe Literary Review, 2026 (forthcoming)

“War,” | First Literary Review-East, November/December 2025

“Oil Paint,”| Slipstream, Number 44, 2024

“A Night Thought Can’t Sleep,”| SWWIM EVERY DAY, #tbt Poem for January 23, 2024

“Under the Sugar Maple”| SLAB, #18, 2023

“Empty Nesters”and Siempre,| Abandoned Mine, November 2023 

“The Narrows”| Visions-International, The World Journal of Illustrated Poetry, #108, Fall/Winter 2023 

“After” and “What It Was”The RavensPerch, May 20, 2023

“Soup”| CLOCKHOUSE, Volume 9, 2022 

“At the Planetarium in Yonkers” and “The Mall” East on Central, Volume 20, 2021-2022

“Her Clip-Ons”| DASH Literary Journal, Volume 13, Spring 2020

“Marconi Beach”| Parks and Points, Poem for April 16, 2019

“Haigerloch Sisters”| What Rough BeastPoem for September 11, 2018

“Swimming in the Trump Years”| Rise Up Review, Winter 2018

“A Night Thought Can’t Sleep”| SWWIM EVERY DAY,  Poem for January 10, 2018

“The Madmen” |What Rough Beast, Poem for January 9, 2018

“Moss” | What Rough Beast, Poem for February 7, 2017

“Slow Dance,” “Bending Toward Justice,” Horsewoman and Camels,” and “Nasturtiums | The Woven Tale Press, Arts and Literary Journal

“Protest at Union Square, November 12, 2016” | The New Verse News

“To:” | The New Verse News

At 42 and “Father Turns 80 | First Literary Review-East (September 2015)

Talkeetna, Alaska | Autumn Sky Poetry

“The Mannequin at Grand Central Station” and “Fireworks at Wilmington | Ducts

“Pura Vida in Costa Rica” | Verse Daily

“The Owl” | Verse Daily

“Charcoal” | FAITH HOUSE Manhattan

“My Clear Blue Morning” | The Riverdale Press

“Three Daughters” | Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon

Excerpt from But Today Is Different:
“Electricity”
“Lipstick”
“The Head of a Woman”
“Trajectory”
“Upon Seeing an Old Boyfriend on Facebook”
“Tongue/Fire/Eclipse/Groove”
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(Used with permission from Wipf and Stock Publishers)

PROSE ONLINE & PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Book Review of Days of Grace and Silence

Book Review of Forget About Sleep

Book Review of Frida’s Boots

Book Review of Numa

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MEDIA KIT

Stern Media Kit, from Wipf and Stock Publishers, includes a Q&A and select poems.