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Writer and teacher
Poems and poem-like things and thoughts about those things.
News
- Book NewsMy first full-length manuscript (title TBD) is forthcoming from co-op press Sixteen Rivers Press in spring 2026. As a new member of the co-operative, I am looking forward to working with the Sixteen Rivers folks for the next three years!
- Book award finalist nodRegards to Balthus was listed as a finalist for the 2023 Moon City Press Poetry Award. Thanks, Moon City Press!
- Five Balthus poems outFive new poems from Regards to Balthus were published in The Ekphrastic Review. Thank you to editor Lorette C. Luzajic!
- New Balthus poem outOne of my Balthus poems, “Young Girl at the Window (1957)”, can be read in the Spring 2023 issue of Southern Indiana Review. The issue also includes poems by Jen Funk and Jan Beatty.
- Long poem about Jay DeFeo on LITMy longish poem about Jay DeFeo’s monumental painting-sculpture The Rose is featured in the May 17, 2023 issue of LIT Magazine. I’m especially excited that it is headed by a gorgeous painting by Vera Iliatova.
