Poems
“Dear Honeybees, the Wind Unhinges,” Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts (forthcoming Issue 15)
“Red Dog Haibun,” Gyroscope Review (forthcoming Winter 2024)
“Sonnets for a Week Between Seasons” and “Ritual Fires,” The Cities of the Plains: An Anthology of Iowa Artists and Poets (forthcoming April 2024)
“Elegy with Alports Syndrome” and “Ghost Town,” 2River View (28.2, Winter 2024)
“Queen’s Court,” Songs of Eretz, (Fall 2023)
“Irruption of Snowy Owl” and “In Which the Hive Covers the News,” Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing: Cordoba, A Celebration of Art and Poetry. (Vol XVIII No. 3.)
“Jello in Hard Times: Watergate Salad,” and “Rhapsody in Daybreak,” Midwest Quarterly (Volume 64, Number 4, Summer 2023)
“New Petition in the Waning Hours,” Briar Cliff Review, (Vol. 35, April 2023). Also selected as the Briar Cliff Review broadside.
“Night flights,” Quartet Journal (Winter 2023, Vol. 3, Issue 1)
“Christmas at the Hampton Inn” and “Selfie with Lunar Landing,” Halfway Down the Stairs, Portraits (December 2022)
“Jello in Hard Times: Cranberry-Apple Salad,” Plainsongs (Winter 2023, Vol. 43, Issue 1)
“With Grant Wood at the American Gothic House, July 4th,” Grant Wood Country Chronicle, 2022
“Ascension of Bees,” “Stone Flower,” and “To a New Mother,” Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2022
“please love,” Conestoga Zen (Vol. 2)
“Finger of God,” Lyrical Iowa (2022) (Winner National/World Events, Iowa Poetry Contest)
“Mother’s Hand,” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing (Summer 2022 l Issue 8.2)
“Midlife Selfie with Marriage” and “Mare with Hoarfrost,” Flint Hills Review (Issue 27, 2022)
“Ode to Delphinium,” Mother Figures, Mom Egg Review (MER 20 2022)
”To the Occupant Apt 23. Sunshine Manor,” Briar Cliff Review (Vol. 34 2022)
“Grandmother’s Vanity,” North Dakota Quarterly (89. 3/4, Fall/Winter 2022)
”Severed,” Main Street Rag Vol. 27 Number 1 (Winter 2022)
”lantern of small fires,” Gyroscope Review (Fall 2021) (Pushcart nomination)
”Letter to Red Stilettos,” West Trade Review (Winter 2021)
“Elegy for an Oak,” Lyrical Iowa (2021)
”Letter to a Barn Fire,” Briar Cliff Review (2021)
“Bridge Night with Drinking Bird,” The Ekphrastic Review (June 2021)
”[Re]Creation Myth with Bombs,” MER VOX Folio (June 2021)
”Oxbow Lament,” Midwest Review (2021) (HM Great Midwest Poetry Contest)
“Man without shadow,” Quartet Journal (Fall 2021)
”Man without shadow, Verse Daily, Web Weekly Feature (Nov. 8, 2021)
“Violet Near the Water,” Sheila-Na-Gig Vol 6.2 (Winter 2021)
”letter to further isolation,” The Night Heron Barks (Winter 2021)
“Bamboo Forest,” Passengers Journal, Vol 2, Issue 1 (Jan 2021)
“Mirror, Flughafen Frankfurt, After a Bombing,” Lyrical Iowa (2020)
“Sheltering”, Backchannels Journal Pandemic Issue (2020)
”Gentle Thunder,” Flying South (2020)
”Kitchen Vigil,” Eastern Iowa Review Issue 10 (Spring 2020)
”Sweet Dills,” SWWIM Every Day (Aug 5, 2020)
“The weight of afternoon sun,” Remington Review (Fall 2020)
“Poem with Synonyms for Afterlife,” Persimmon Tree (Winter, 2020)
”Leaving Tucson,” San Pedro River Review, Vol 12, No. 2 (Fall 2020)
”Bamboo Forest,” “Kitchen Vigil,” “Poem with Synonyms for Afterlife,” Conestoga Zen: An Anthology (Oct. 2020)
“The Reliability of Heat and Flowers,” Citron Review (Winter 2020)
“self-portrait underwater,” Neologism Poetry Journal Issue 33 (Feb 2020)
”Vacancies,” Third Wednesday Magazine (Nov. 2019)
”Songs from the summer kitchen,” The Raw Art Review (Fall 2019) (HM Charles Bukowski Prize for Poetry)
“Drinking Tea in San Francisco,” Lyrical Iowa (2019)
”Sisyphean Lover,” High Shelf Press, Issue VIII (June 2019)
“Signal Fire,” Cathexis Northwest Press (June 2019)
“Grace,” Sunbeams: 2019 Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Anthology (finalist)
”Ruby’s last dress,” “Morningside at the Desert Casino,” “Dialectics After Dark,” The Write Launch, Issue 29 (Sept. 2019)
”Maribel,” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review (Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2018)
”Bakery Girl,” Lyrical Iowa (2018)
“Grace,” “Kitchen Vigil,” “Ruby’s last dress,” Telepoem Booth® Iowa (2020)
Awards & Recognition
“Selfie with Lunar Landing,” Halfway Down the Stairs, 2023 Best of the Net nomination
”lantern of small fires,” Gyroscope Review, 2021 Pushcart nomination
“Oxbow Lament” “letter to further isolation,” Runner-up 2021 Atlantis Award Poet’s Billow
”Oxbow Lament,” Finalist, 2021 Great Midwest Poetry Contest
“Songs from the summer kitchen,” Honorable Mention 2019 Charles Bukowski Prize for Poetry, Raw Art Review
“Grace,” Finalist, 2019 Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest
Chapbook
Songs from the Summer Kitchen, Finishing Line Press (September 2021)