poetry

Psalm of Stones and Weeds. Special Issue, Southern Poetry Review (Forthcoming, 2024).

For My Daughter. Lyrics. Composer Frank Horvat, Soprano Meredith Hall. On the album Fractures: Song Cycle about Fracking. Apple Music. Spotify. (November 2023).

Psalm of Stones and WeedsSouthern Poetry Review (Fall 2016). 

TrespassCoal Hill Review. (Summer 2015).

Triptych: About Suffering.  Mid-American Review (Spring 2015).

For my Daughter.  New Millennium Writings #38 (Spring 2015). Honorable mention, New Millenium Writing Awards. Split This Rock Poem of the Week. subTerrain (Winter 2013). 100,000 Poets for Change Selection for the 2014 Global Day of Action and sent to President Obama by tens of thousands of poets.

Incarnation:  A Natural History. Chautauqua (Summer 2013). First Runner-Up, Chautauqua Poetry Contest.

Musica Universalis.  Chautauqua (Summer 2013). Winner, Chautauqua Poetry Contest.

In the Hothouse. Crab Creek Review (Summer 2013). Outrider Press/TallGrass Anthology (Fall 2014).

Winter Kept Us Warm.  American Literary Review (Spring 2013).

Tenebrae for Earth.  subTerrain (63, Winter 2013).

To Thoreau, On Visiting Walden.  Ruminate (26, Winter 2012).

Alexander, Six Weeks.  The Comstock Review (Winter 2011). Special Merit, Comstock Review Poetry Contest.

Hiking Near Natural Bridges, California.  Poet Lore. (Summer 2003.)

Revelation.  Sport Literate. (Summer 1999.)


selected poetry honors

Chautauqua Poetry Contest, Winner and First Runner-up

Boulevard Contest for Emerging Poets, Second Runner-Up

Women's National Book Association Poetry Competition, Third Place

Graduate Classics Translation Prize, Univ. of Michigan, Second Place. Translation of Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri

New Millennium Writings Contest. Honorable Mention

Rita Dove Award for Poetry, Finalist

James Wright Poetry Contest. Finalist

Split This Rock Poem of the Week

Hopwood Award, Poetry, University of Michigan