PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
Recognition
Awards & Honors
Pushcart Prize Nomination
Spring 2018
For “Seafaring,” nominated for the Pushcart Prize — one of American literature’s most prestigious honors for independent presses.
For “Seafaring,” nominated for the Pushcart Prize — one of American literature’s most prestigious honors for independent presses.
Pushcart Prize Nomination
November 2009 · TIFERET
Nominated by TIFERET for “The Questions Themselves,” published in Canary, Issue 7.
Pushcart Prize Nomination
November 2008
For “Trip To Angel Falls, So Named In 1937 In Honor of Jimmy Angel, the White Bush Pilot Who ‘Discovered’ the Falls While Searching For Gold In Venezuela.”
Pushcart Prize Nomination
2013
For “Leaving the Okay Marriage,” recognizing its distinctive voice and craft.
2nd Place — Poetry Contest
2010 · Split This Rock
“Oceanside, CA” won 2nd place in the 2010 Split This Rock Poetry Contest, a nationally recognized activist poetry competition.
1st Honorable Mention
November 2009 · Hudson Valley Writers Guild
“Laundry Day” received 1st Honorable Mention in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild NY state-wide poetry contest.
Poem-A-Day Feature
March 26, 2014 · Poets.org
“If the ocean had a mouth” selected for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series — one of the most widely read daily poetry features in the country.
Web Weekly Feature
September 9, 2013 · Verse Daily
“On Being Left” selected as the Web Weekly Feature at Verse Daily, originally published by Muzzle Magazine.
Poem of the Week
March 2011 · Split This Rock
“Bliss” featured as Poem of the Week by Split This Rock.
Pushcart Nominations
Published Poems
Anthology Contributions
Years in Print
Credits
Publications
2022
- “No Such Thing as Away” appears in Young Ravens Literary Review, Issue 16, June 2022.
- “Hum” appears in MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 12, March 2022.
2021
- “Liminal” appears in Tiferef, Spring/Summer 2021.
2019
- “Without Longing, How to Make Beautiful the Song?” appears in Tiferef, Fall/Winter 2019.
2017 – 2018
- “Seafaring” appears in New Ohio Review, Fall 2017, Issue #22. ★ Pushcart Nom.
- “Bienvenidos a Florida” appears in Blue Hills, A Magazine of the Georgetown Poetry Festival 2017, October 2017.
2014
- “If the ocean had a mouth” appears in the Poets.org Poem-A-Day series, March 26, 2014. ★ Featured
- “Uncompassed” appears in Thrush Poetry Journal, March 2014.
- Curated as ocean folio for Drunken Boat #18, including 15 poets, underwater photos, videos, and poem “Conversations with a Jellyfish.” Editor
- “Gratitude Prayer,” “Cray Cray,” and “Stranded” appear in Split Lip Magazine, Issue 9, Jan.–March 2014.
2013
- “Mind Too Much” featured on RATTLE, December 31, 2013.
- “On Being Left” — Web Weekly Feature at Verse Daily, September 9, 2013. Originally published by Muzzle Magazine. ★ Featured
- “Leaving the Okay Marriage” and “On Being Left” appear in Muzzle Magazine, Summer 2013. ★ Pushcart Nom.
- “Tajakula, Bali” and “Ode to Raja Ampat” appear in Ibbetson Street #33, Summer 2013.
- “Memory of Water” appears in The Enigmatist, Summer 2013.
- “Mind Too Much” appears in RATTLE #40, Summer 2013.
- “Ode to Raja Ampat” appears on IndieFeed, April 2013.
2012
- “Divisible Bones,” “Seaweed on the Beach,” and “How To Be Photogenic” appear in The Tonic, Summer/Fall 2012, Vol. 10, No. 1.
- “Fish Gotta Swim” appears on IndieFeed, September 2012.
- “Never Simple, What Has To Do with the Human” appears in Ibbetson Street #32, Spring 2012.
- “One Long Leaving” and “The Wildness Inside” appear in Waccamaw, No. 9, Spring 2012.
- “A Grapple of Sparrows,” “Fin,” and “Triggerfish” appear in John Hoppenthaler’s A Poetry Congeries at Connotation Press, April 2012.
- “Subway” in the anthology Token Entry, edited by Gerry LaFemina (Smalls Books/Red Lashes Productions, 2012). Anthology
- “Campaign Season” in the anthology Villanelles, co-edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012). Co-Editor
- “Steady, My Gaze” in the anthology A Face to Meet the Faces, co-edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz (University of Akron Press, 2012). Anthology
- “Self-Portrait with Water” appears in Barrow Street, Winter 2011/12.
2011
- “Swimming Among Sharks: A Photo Essay” at Terrain.org, Issue No. 28, Fall/Winter 2011.
- “The Year of the Bad Decision” and “The You Boutique” appear in Ariel, 2011.
- “Self-Portrait as Squid” appears in Poets and Artists #25, Collaboration Issue, July 2011.
- “Anglerfish” appears on The New Verse News, Monday, May 9, 2011.
- “Who Says the Ear Loves Silence?” appears in Poet Lore, Spring/Summer 2011, Volume 106, No. 1/2.
- “Taking for Granted” appears in Issue 4 of Union Station Magazine.
- “Bliss” featured as Poem of the Week by Split This Rock, March 2011.
- Five poems with audio appear in the 6.03, March 2011 issue of PANK.
- “The Length of You Narrow” and “Rebecca” appear in The Fox Chase Review, Winter/Spring 2011.
- “Lungs” read by Nic Sebastian for Whale Sound.
- “Captive” in the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology. Anthology
- “Knife” and “Whale Watching in Provincetown” appear in Poets for Living Waters.
- “Homecoming” appears in 50/50: Words & Images for Didi Menendez. Anthology
- Interview with Chris Abani in Union Station, July 2010.
2010
- “O Three-Eyed Lord” and “Restorer at the National Gallery, Kabul” appear in The November 3rd Club, Winter 2010.
- “Strike Anywhere” and “The Loud Town” appear in OCHO #28, Winter 2010.
2009 – 2010
- “Dragonface Pipefish” appears in Canary, Issue 7, Winter 2009–10. ★ Pushcart Nom.
- “Campaign Season” appears in RATTLE #32, Winter 2009.
- “Octopus Attack!,” “The Town of Broken Bones,” and “The Town of Snakes” appear in PANK 4.11, November 2009.
- “Husband Returns as Parrot” appears in Redheaded Stepchild, Winter 2009.
- “Diving” in Canary, Issue No. 6, Autumn 2009.
- “Invisible in Me” in the Self-Portrait issue of Oranges & Sardines, September 2009.
- “O Mary” in Naugatuck River Review, Summer 2009.
- “Ode to the Leeds” appears in Holly Rose Review, June 2009.
- “Liver” and “Lungs” appear in Pebble Lake Review, Health and Illness Issue, 2009.
- “I Celebrate the Husband” in OCHO #24, featuring Twitter Poets, June 2009.
- “Offering” in TIFERET, Issue 9.
- “Trust is a Silent Thing” in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Vol. 25, no. 1, Winter 2009.
2008
- “Cubana Boy,” “Crooked Climb Toward Marriage,” “Possessions,” and “Heparin” in MiPOesias, December 2008, Vol. 22, Issue II.
- “Hambrienta,” “Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela,” “Caraima, Venezuela,” and “Trip To Angel Falls, So Named In 1937 In Honor of Jimmy Angel, the White Bush Pilot Who ‘Discovered’ the Falls While Searching For Gold In Venezuela” in Acentos Review. ★ Pushcart Nom.
- “A Good Night’s Rest” in Lumina, Vol. VIII.
- “Walking in Winter” in the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv, Red Hen Press, 2008. Anthology
2007 & Earlier
- “Volunteering After 9/11” and “Subway” in Spindle.
- “Snapshot” in the women’s anthology HIS RIB: stories, poems & essays by HER, Penmanship Publishing Group, 2007. Anthology
- “Like a Book” and “Walking In Winter” in The 2River View.
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