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I'm thrilled to be included in a new publication out now in print from Washington Writers' Publishing House. Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration is a collection of poetry and prose from queer Washington, DC area writers. Included (on page 12) is my very first villanelle!- "A Villanelle for Lost Quiltbaggers." According to poets.org... "The villanelle …
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Very excited to have my poem published with the Hill Rag's Poetic Hill, curated by Sandra Beasley. Screenshot I wrote "Spider Web After Rain" during my personal ekphrastic poem-a-day challenge for this year's National Poetry month. Each day in April 2024, I selected one of my nature-centric photographs and wrote a short poem inspired by …
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When surrounded by the ocean, you open and your feasting feathers find food too small for the human eye you harvest – underwater fishing families casting nets, sifting the sea This is a tiny ode, published by Washington Writers Publishing House in August, 2024. I pulled this ode from a slightly longer poem written during …
marks in the sand 