Publication History

I write in a variety of genres and forms: poetry, reviews, essays, memoir and visual art. Independent presses & journals are thriving. I hope this gives you some joy today.

Recent:

Poems: In the last days of the empire, Prescriptive Assignment & Mundane Things in BlazeVOX Journal

Poetry & Visual Art: “I ask the astronaut” at “LookUp” Members Exhibition, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY Jan 25-March 1, 2025

Review Essay: Portrait as Landscape: On The Under Hum by Simone Meunch & Jackie K. White in Heavy Feather Review

Review Essays and Interviews in Tupelo Quarterly 35

Poem and visual art in Tofu Ink Arts Press

Poem: Vampire Story in Moonlighting

Review Essay: Everything Turns Up: Poetics of Time and Temperature in New Works by Maureen Owen and Ruth Danon in Tupelo Quarterly

Review Essay: Extraordinary Lines: An Eye in Each Square by Lauren Camp and Extraordinary Tides by Pattie McCarthy in Tupelo Quarterly

Review Essays: on Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle by Kristina Marie Darling (University of Akron Press); on Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz (BlazeVOX) in Heavy Feather Review

Review Essays: On The Corrected Version by Rosanna Young Oh (Diode Editions); On If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin (Four Way Books) in The Colorado Review

Review Essay: Now that the Sky is a Mall: Review of Rewild by Meredith Stricker (Tupelo Press, 2022)” in Heavy Feather Review

Review Essay: “What Can Be Said Now: Review of Animal Bodies: On Death Desire and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) in Heavy Feather Review

Review Essay: The Plague Doctor by James Morehead in Tupelo Quarterly

Creative Nonfiction: “Hurricane Sandy and Argo” in Grande Dame Literary

Creative Nonfiction: “Cats are Little Bodhisatvas” in Hunger Mountain

Review Essay: “Consider This New Order: Wind Mountain Oak: The Poems of Sappho by Dan Beachy Quick (Tupelo Press, 2023) in The Decadent Review.

Poetry: “A World of Pearls” ekphrastic poem in Suffolk County Poetry Review.

Review Essay:Book Review of These Particular Women by Kat Meads: Celebrating Women Who Misbehave” in ArtsFuse.

Poetry: “Doing the Work, Happy with the Imagery” poem and visual art in The Decadent Review

Review Essay: “For We Think Back Through Our Mothers If We Are Women: The Distaff Side by Mary Leader and Comfort by Sarah Heady in Tupelo Quarterly

Review Essay: “Kiss the Bird-eyed Wind:” Review of Architecture of Dust by Chike Nzerue (Leapfolio, 2023) in Tupelo Quarterly

Poetry: “Met” spoken word ekphrastic poem on Viewless Wings podcast.

Poetry and photography: “The Night Gave Us Ice” in Tofu Ink Arts Press Volume 5.

Review Essays: “The World as it Appears”: Review of City Scattered by Tyler Mills (Tupelo Press, 2022) & “Privacy is a Figment of Eden”: Review of Math for the Self Crippling by Ursula Villarreal-Moura (Gold Line Press, 2022) in Santa Fe Writers’ Project Quarterly.

Conceptual Book: “Notebook Destroyed by Rainstorm” in A physical book which compiles conceptual books by various artists, Levi Sherman and Carley Gomez, editors. Partial Press

Residency and Public Program: Fall 2022 Multi-Disciplinary Artist Residency, Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY.

Poetics and visual art: “Diurnal Nature Journal Destroyed by Rain Storm: Three Sonnets” in TofuInk Arts Press Volume 4.

News Article: “NYS Independent Living Council Hall of Fame Welcomes Five Advocates for Disability Rights” in Able News.

Interview: “Something is Afoot: An Interview with Andrea Ross, Author of Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness” in The LITPUB.

Review Essay: “Women Who Run with the Words: Meads, Farris and Chinquee take Prose to Wild Places” in Tupelo Quarterly.

Story: “How to Save a Swan”, The Laurel Review. Original creative Non Fiction Essay

Book Review, The Literary Review: Kristina Marie Darling’s Dark Horse and In the Room of Persistent Sorry. Darling is a champion of experimental forms, exploring the boundaries and freedoms of poetics in both her creative and critical writings.

“Ensuring the Spirit and the Letter of the ADA” Op-ed in Newsday about the Disability Integration Act, published on the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability rights are civil rights.

Article: “This is a Permanent Book” is a referenced critical essay assessing the history of Dover Publications in Contingent Magazine. The Mineola, NY based publishing house and printer was famous for publishing copyright free books for 75 years.

Honors: Chapbook manuscript Species of Concern: Poetics and Essays was long listed for the C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Contest 2020

Review: The Literary Review: Other Voices, Other Lives by Grace Cavalieri. Essay on the life and work of poet, playwright, radio host and poet laureate of Maryland, on the publication of her collected works.

Review: Robert Glick’s collection of short fiction, Two Californias: “Gen X may be finally ready for our winning moments. This book is certainly one.”

Book Review: MY ID by Bill Lavender, poetics and prose: “I find myself unpacking my own depths in the presence of a great writer’s fearless journey, whereas maybe I cannot find or accept that moment in other genres or therapies, medicines or practices.”

Review of Dana Roeser’s All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Prize for women over 50.

Award: Able News: winner of a 2021 Fair Media Council Folio Award for the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act special issue. Co-editor and staff writer.

Poetics: BlazeVOX 20 is a 500+ page powerhouse. “Dear Sisters Gone” is dedicated to the victims of the Long Island serial killer. Plus “California Poem” and”Rush on MTV”

Older Work:

Chapbook: Under the Thin Brittle of Every Situation, 40 pages, (Rodent Press, 1993 & 1995). ISBN: ‎ 978-1887289023,

Poetry, prose, fiction and essay. Available from the author.