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Listen in to the Poetry Medicine for the Soul podcast, Episode 16 where Paola Bruni and I discuss our poems “Limoncini” and “Whales.”

 

 

 

 

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current theme: “The Rules of the Game: Playing with Form”

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New Work in the World!

Self-Portrait with Ecstatic Apocalypse” published in May by Rogue Agent.

New short fiction in the double issue 33/34 from Emerge Literary Journal: “Blue Gouramis.”

Read and listen to my poem, “Who Has Taught Me to Love this Body?” in Cider Press Review.

Dropped November 17: my flash fiction story “Road Trip, 1977” with the beautiful Fictive Dream.

October 2024: Two Microfictions up at Switch: “The End” and “Binti’s Escape.”

Fall 2024’s Whale Road Review includes my prose-y poem appropriately titled “Whales” which has been nominated for the Pushcart & Best Small Fictions Prizes.

View Mass Poetry’s poetry & protest video collage where I was one of 16 featured poets from across the state to read Amanda Gorman’s “In This Place (An American Lyric)”  for National Poetry Month 2020.