Publications & Prizes
Awards and Recognitions
Writing the Significant Soil, winner of the 2021 Homebound Poetry Prize, published by Wayfarer Books.
Writing the Significant – First place in the 2022 Communications Contest of the Virginia Professional Communications Association
UPDATE: Writing the Significant Soil wins first place in the 2022 communications contest of the National Federation Press Women
Rebecca Lard Award Winner 2018 for my poem “First and Last“
2016 GFT Press Chapbook Contest Grand Prize Winner Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson
Honorable Mention 2019 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize Geographies of the Dead
Honorable Mention 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize All Night over Bones
Quarterfinalist: 2017 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award Dark Fathers
Pushcart Prize Nominations:
”Taconic Orogeny” nominated 2016 by Vine Leaves Literary Journal
”The Work of the Body” nominated 2016 by Touch: The Journal of Healing
Publications
Thank you to all the editors of the following publishers, journals and e-zines:
Books
- Geographies of the Dead Kelsay Books (2024)
- Stone Bird San Francisco Bay Press (2023)
- Writing the Significant Soil Wayfarer Books (2022)
- Dark Fathers Kelsay Books (2019)
- Final Inventory Chapbook Prolific Press (2018)
- Finite to Fail: Poems After Dickinson Chapbook GFT Press (2017)
- Early in the Day: Published and Selected Poems Chapbook Dark Land Publishing (2015)
- Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves Collection Dark Land Publishing (2014)
- Dark Land, White Light Chapbook (1974). Second Edition Dark Land Publishing (2014)
Anthologies:
Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry 1980:
- “On the Pavement”
Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print):
- “All Journeys”
- “Samuel Clemens’ Cat”
The Power of the Feminine (Thresh Press 2024):
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
The Poetry Society of Virginia Centennial Anthology
- “The Invention of Zero”
- “The Relative Bending of Time”
Reflections by the Riverside (Riverside Writers Anthology 2024
- “A Matter of Gravity”
- “Above Emile Creek”
- “Ex Voto”
- “Fatherhood”
- “He Reconciles the Scientist and Poet”
- “In Any Season”
- “In a Winter of Ice and Stars”
- “Treehouse Summer”
- “The Work of the Body”
Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands
- “Cloud Chamber”
- “Alamogordo – July 16, 1945”
- “Nuclear Winter”
Journals and eZines:
50 Haikus
- “April Haiku 1”
- “April Haiku 2”
- “Tradition”
Aji Magazine
- “Anchises” (p. 101)
- “Murmuration“
- “The Exile Ashore” (p. 37)
- “The Exile of Nowhere” (p. 38)
- Interview: Moon or Sun: A Relection on Craft (p. 67)
- “Of Bone and Limestone” (p. 96)
- “Parsing Moonlight” (p. 101)
- “Past All Aging” (p. 97)
- “Roads Taken”
- “Some Have Entertained Unawares” (p. 102)
- “Śūnyatā 1” (p. 65)
- “Tanka: Evening Star” (p. 66)
- “The Wind’s Exile” (p. 39)
Allegro Poetry Magazine
- “Grammar Lessons” (Scroll down)
- “Happy Halloween“
- “Outcast Winter” (scroll down)
Alura
The American Journal of Poetry
- “Bequest”
American Tanka
- “Remnant“
The Arkansan Review
- “The Harvest of Dreams”
- “Plague Migrations”
- “Visiting a Very Small Dark House“
Arlington Literary Journal
- “Dark Fathers” (Issue 94)
- “Defiled by Exile” (Issue 94)
- “The Exile is Orphaned” (Issue 94)
Artemis Journal
- “After the Next Last Disaster”
- “History in Moonfall”
- “Nejma – Last Passage”
- “Pantheism”
- “Perfumes of Abandonment”
The Bacon Review
Backchannels
The Big Windows Review
- “Hear like a Stone” (p. 9)
- “Images Divine and Secular” (p. 34)
- “The Orphan“
- “The Reshaping of Clay”
The Birds we Piled loosely
- “Bad Dreams” (p. 49)
- “Four Ambiguous Quatrains” (p. 61)
- “The Scorpion’s Psalm” (p. 23)
Blue Heron Review
- “A Matter of Gravity” (scroll down)
Blue Unicorn
- “Hungry Inside“
- “Season of Disgrace”
- “The Wilderness”
Buddhist Poetry Review
- “Awakening”
- “Becoming the Light”
- “Uncrossed Frontier”
Burningword Literary Journal
Carbon Culture Review
- “Comedy of Ions”
- “The Diversity of Habitable Zones“
- “Fire, Food, Metal“
- “Metaphysical Changes”
- “The Serpent in His Hands”
- “The Wounds of Exile“
Centrifuge
- “A Stark and Minimalist Poem”
Chantwood Magazine
- “The Druid”
- “The Gatekeeper”
Crosswinds Poetry Journal
- “An Old Chaos (Sunday Morning)”
- “Communion- The First”
- “Division”
- “Killing Points”
Clementine Unbound (Clementine Poetry Journal)
- “Last Journal”
- “Now Is Not the Time to Talk about Guns”
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
- “The Politics of Prayer”
The Crucible
- “Ex-voto”
Dark Matter
- “Schrödinger’s Anticipation” (p. 65)
- “She Asks me Inside” (p. 50)
Deadly Writers Patrol
- “Marine”
- “Reclaiming the Ho Chi Minh Trail”
- “War Memories”
december magazine
- “Eclipse Unseen”
- “For Bill Shuter (Last Attempt)”
- “Fragments of Color”
- “Ghazal: Clarity of the Absolute”
- “Psalms in Pieces”
Dime Show Review
- “Sybil of Main Street”
Dual Coast Magazine
- “Tanka: A Long Path“
- “A Postures of Sitting“
- “The Exile Before His Desk“
- “All Journeys are Metaphors“
Earthwise Literary Calendar
- “Spring Fragment”
Empty Sink Publishing
FLARE: The Flagler Review
- “Above Emile Creek” (p. 42)
The Flexible Persona
- “Brittle Adoration”
Folia
Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review
- “Driving Away”
- “The Exile of Song”
- “Patience”
- “Praying Water”
The Free Lance
GFT Press One in Four
- “Becoming”
- “Blood Cries the Earth“
- “Offertory”
- “Song of the Sixth Extinction”
- “The Exile at the Airport“
- “The Exile has Visions“
- “Squatting in Sunlight“
- “The Stone Bird in Exile”
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Gravel Magazine
- “The Art of Disharmony”
- “Birth Season”
- “Black Vultures”
- “Genetic Geologies”
- “River and Father”
Great River Review
- “Don’t Go Near the Edge“
- “He Reconciles the Scientist and Poet“
- “In Any Season“
- “On the Pavement“
- “We Almost Caught the Turning“
Haiku Journal
- “Haiku – October”
Half Mystic
- “Frost Music”
Haunted Waters Press
- “Climbing the Red-Dog Road” (p. 4)
- “Severance” (p. 5)
- “Treehouse Summer” (p. 17)
Heart and Mind Zine
- “The Desert Rains”
Heron Tree
- “After Bashō”
- “Brittle“
- “The Difficulty of Morning”
- “Enlargement“
- “Philemon“
- “Unforgetting“
- “What is Still“
Hole in the Head Review
- “Seaward”
Hound
- “Harpies“
Hungry Chimera
- “Resurrections of Lice” (p. 13)
- “Voices Done with Mirrors” (p. 14)
Hurricane Review
- “A Matter of Gravity”
- “A Way Home”
- “Annunciation”
- Anthropology”
- “Aurora”
- “Caregiver’s Song”
- “Childless”
- “Consilience”
- “Continuity”
- “Covenential“
- “CQ, the Sunset?”
- “Don’t Go Near the Edge”
- “Eyeopening”
- “Falling Again”
- “Formulary”
- “Gibbous”
- “Hope is a Song”
- “In a Winter of Ice and Stars”
- “Katrina Orphan”
- “Light Pollution”
- “mu”
- “On the Morning of the Third Day – Alamogordo”
- “On the White Surf”
- “Orange”
- “Poetics”
- “Preface: Clouds of Unknowing”
- “Pregnancy”
- “Scientia: A Play of Voices”
- “Scientist uses Astronomy to understand population distribution”
- “Song of the Urban Dandelion”
- “Tanaka 2”
- “Tanaka of Cats”
- “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle”
- ”The Sea as Seen in Fragments”
- “Theology of Atmosphere”
- “Three Photographs”
- “Time Management”
- “Too Much Too Little”
The Ideate Review
- “The Exile of Brotherhood”
- “Shadows of Ancestors”
Into the Void Magazine
- “Conservation of Matter and Energy”
Inwood Indiana
- “The Exile of Mourning“
- “Pileated“
- “A Spider and Half Moon”
- “A Wild Catalog of Flowers”
iō Literary Journal
- “Aleppo”
- “The Independence of Green Beans”
- “Kharon” in the collection “Tales from Six Feet Apart”
- “Under a Belgian Sky”
Journal of the Blue Ridge Writers
- “Alien”
- “Astronomer of Hunger”
- “Attar and Quaver”
- “The Biography of Tools”
- “The Fact of Hummingbird”
- “The Sap Runs in Spring
LEAD Virginia Newsletter – 2010
- “Red Clay Sunrise”
Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
- “Fecundity”
- “Four Measure Rest”
- “Infinity of Nothing”
- “Submission”
- “Ways of Seeing”
Literature Today
- “Echoes in Green”
- “Eden”
- “Murder in the Garden”
- “The Exile’s Bride”
- “The Nostalgia of Frisbees”
The Magnolia Review
- “alt-right killer” erasure poem (p. 258)
- “April 22, 1994 – For Linda” (p. 99)
- “Beneath the Six-Sided Farmhouse” (p. 34)
- “Chain Smoked Monkeys” (p. 98 – a collage poem from The Simpsons)
- “Charitable Erasure” erasure poem (p. 134)
- “The Context of February” (p. 115)
- “End of Romance” (p. 66)
- “The Exile Knows this Ghost” (p. 72)
- “The Formation of Standing Waves” (p. 178)
- “Green Wings” (p. 22)
- “Inquiry into Matter” (p. 162)
- “Kind of a Stupid Game, Isn’t it?” (p. 42- -a collage poem from Calvin and Hobbes)
- “Love Loss” (p. 174)
- “Lost and Found” (p. 208)
- “Magic Trick” (p. 67)
- “October 25, 2001” p. 150
- “On Finding an Abandoned Firepit” (p. 233)
- “On the Edge of 1969” (p. 21)
- “A Pipe of Ghosted Smoke” (p. 268)
- “Prometheus” (p. 57)
- “Resurrection” 2006 (p. 201)
- “Saturnine Hypotyposis” (p. 131)
- “The Sea is Everything” (p. 51)
- “Superhero at Work” (p. 29)
- “Today (September 11, 2001)” p. 188
- “Unfinished” (p. 31)
- Interview on the creative process
The MacGuffin
- “First Birthday”
- “Silence Lacks its Author”
- “Walking South on Water Street”
Manzano Mountain Review
- “Transcendental Equation”
- “The Wilderness”
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
- “Angle Street”
- “Crafting the Void”
- “Natural Supernaturalism”
- “On the Road, 1972”
- “Whitman Deconstructed”
- “Wrestling Proteus on the Beach”
Mono
- “Another Equinox”
- “My Friend the Shadow“
- “Our Asses are Our Own“
The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry
- “A Mist Path”
Mystic Blue Review
- “The Android” p. 43
- “The Blue Astronomer” p. 51
- “Blood Moon and Snake” p. 47
- “Death on the Highway” p. 49
- “Full Fathoms Dark” p. 41
- “Grand Unified Theory” p. 53
- “Morlocks“
- “A Murder“
- “Noh” p. 40
- “Parable” p. 39
- “The Robotmaker’s Answer” p. 44
- “Séance” p. 48
- “Wind Becomes Eland“
Nourish
- “Śūnyatā 2”
On the Rusk
- “Stars, Drought, and Adam” (p. 26)”
The Pangolin Review
Parentheses Journal
Peeking Cat Poetry (UK)
- “Age of Gold”
- “Anticipation“
petrichor
Piedmont Literary Review
The Piedmont Virginian Magazine
- “Assignation“
- “Echoes”
- “Panoramas“
- “Reflections: Red Clay Sunrise“
- “Words Written Along Stevensburg Road”
Plum Tree Tavern
The Poet
Poetry Quarterly
- “Autumn Willow”
- “December’s Child”
- “December Cenotaph”
- “Drinking Heaven”
- “Fertile Equinox”
- “First and Last” (2018 Rebecca Lard Award)
- “Fishing Dark Ice”
- “For Betty Baker”
- “The Frozen Man”
- “The Honey of Miracles“
- ”In a New Land”
- “It Must be Winter”
- “The Language of Rain”
- “My Yellow Season”
- “Pilgrim”
- “Reclining Figure”
- ”Sewing”
- “Silent Lights”
- “A Stillness in the Bend”
- “This is Not an October Poem”
- “To a Friend Who Lies with Winter”
- “Under the Oak Tree”
- “Winter Moon”
The Raven’s Perch
- “Authority of Stars“
- “Banishment before Water“
- “Called Home to Exile“
- “The Commencement Address“
- “Desolation Thesaurus“
- “The Exile Meets the Boatman“
- “The Exile’s Equinox“
- “The Final Ambiguity of Exile“
- “The Sleeper“
- “Three Memos of a Sad Man“
- “White Reconciliation“
Red Earth Review
- “A Last Bend in the Huron River” p. 144
- “Nothing Like” p. 139
- “Peering through the Narrow End” p. 141
- “The Right Agony” p. 73
- “Surviving Nightfall” p. 74
- “Vessel” p. 145
Red Queen Literary Magazine
- “Lineage”
The Red Wheelbarrow Review (previously The Red Savina Review)
- “Names for the Earth”
- “Prayer of Vapor”
- “Stone Birds”
- “Verbal”
Ripples
Route 7 Review
- “Emily’s Ghost Machine” (p. 82)
Rust and Moth
- “Paleontology”
- “Transit“
- “Urbanity“
The Scapegoat Review
The Sea Letter
- “The Exile is His Desk”
Sky Island Journal
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
- “Black Bread” (p. 3)
- “The Burning Time” (p. 4)
- “Day’s End Near Rye Cove” p. 90
- “The Freelance Geographer” p. 62
- “Harvests of Flesh” (p. 4)
- “I Am Cardboard” (p. 120)
- “The Exile Breathes Sulfur” (p. 121)
- “Philosophical Water” p. 92
- “Spring Harvest” p, 93
- “Sugaring” (p. 4)
- “Whittling Emptiness” (p. 5)
- “The Worth of Words” p. 94
Spare Parts Literary Magazine
Spirit Wind Poetry
- “Do They Sweep Streets”
- “Meditations”
- “The Pantheistic Scientific Buddhist Tries to Live into the Mystery”
- “Poetics”
- “To Spiral as Archimedes”
Stone Country
- “Drifts“
Stoneboat Literary Journal
- “Recapitulation”
Summerset Review
- “Eloquence“
- “Moonscaped: For Buzz Aldrin”
- “Still Knowing”
- “This Weaving”
Tanka Journal
- “Tanka: In a streak of blue”
Temenos Journal
- “Diogenes in the Rain” (p. 50)
- “Rite” (p. 46)
- “Terminal Butterfly” (Fall 2015 p. 39)
These Fragile Lilacs Poetry Journal
- “Runes” (p. 5)
- “Threnody for a Lost Cat” (p. 40)
Three Line Poetry
- “Cosmos“
- “Descent“
- “A Last Fragile Cloud of Summer”
- “Blackberry Reduction – 3“
- “The carillon has voices”
- “The skipped stone disappears into the current”
Touch: : The Journal of Healing
- “Become a Dark Current”
- “Becoming Stage Three”
- “Breaking Bones“
- “Metastasis“
- “Musings“
- “The Work of the Body“ (Nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize)
Two Cities Review
- “Final Inventory (On Her Dying)“
- “September”
- “Vertigo”
V Press LC Anthology
Vine Leaves Literary Journal
- “Aabsolute Zero”
- “Taconic Orogeny” (on p. 17 Nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize)
Virginia Writers Club Journal
- “Above and Within” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
- “Barter” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)
- “Become the Ancestor” (April 2021 issue)
- “Carrying Rich Darkness” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
- “Become the Ancestor” (April 2021 issue)
- “Cloud Physics” (April 2021 issue)
- “Composition for Logs and Fireplace” (April 2021 issue)
- “Creativity” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)
- “Epigenesis” (May 2021 issue)
- “The Essential Oxymoron” (April issue)
- “Fog, Water and Asking” (Summer/Fall 2023 issue)
- “Migration of the Soul” (May 2021 issue)
- “The Numerology of Weather”
- “Retail Poetics” (April 2021 issue)
- “Shards 24” (April 2021 issue)
- “Transmigration” (May 2021 issue)
- “Visiting an Abandoned Barn in January” (Summer/Fall 2024 issue)
Voices on the Wind
- “Dragon Teeth Mountains – First Extract”
- “Hills like Blue Smoke”
- “The Human Abstract”
- “Meditation”
- “Meditations in Blue”
- “The Naming”
- “The Pizzeria”
- “Pluperfect Landscape with Being”
The Voices Project
Walloon Writers Review
- “Superior Night”
- “Dawn beside Black Lake
- “Two-Hearted”
The Wayfarer
- “An Answer in Passage”
- “The Crows and the Dove”
The Wayne Literary Review
- “Becoming November“
- “Fatherhood“
- “Radishes in Detroit”
Weary Blues Magazine
- “Apparition”
- “Brilliant Victory”
The Write Place at the Write Time
- “Age and Silence”
- “Beach Combing”
- “Betrayals” (pp. 23-24)
- “Darkfall”
- “Down“
- “Halloween” (p, 4)
- “Harrowing Hallows’ Evening” p. 4
- “Interruption in August“
- “A Mist Path”
- “Still Life: Old Man with Mockingbird” (p. 2)
- “The Study of Metaphysics“
The Yellow Chair Review
- “Cutting Deeper” (p. 114)
- “The Alien in Meeting” (p. 45)
- “Ghosts: paper or Plastic” (p. 87)