To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022, read about it and order here)
On Shifting Shoals: Chapbook, Kelsay Books January 2023 read about it and order here
Poems in Journals:
Solutions, James Applewhite Finalist 2024, NC Literary Review
Inheritance, Synkroniciti (forthcoming, March 2025)
One Word, Kakalak (honorable mention, forthcoming)
I Learn About Bladderworts at Carolina Beach State Park, Kakalak (forthcoming)
Vision, Cider Press Review (forthcoming)
Dear Gravity, Nature for our Times (Poets for Science), November 13, 2024
Daniel Ellsberg is Interviewed a Few Weeks Before He Died, South Florida Poetry Journal Nov. 2024
Tourists, MasticadoresUSA, October 2024
Synagogue 1962 and On the Margins, Synkroniciti (Sept. 2024) , feature artist commentary
Poetry Lesson, Grade 6, The Font Journal, Sept. 2024
Ms. Peters and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Stonecoast Review, Sept. 2024
Love, MasticadoresUSA, September 2024
Playing Go-Fish with My Three-Year-Old Granddaughter, Storyteller Review , September 2024
Laughter, New Verse News, August 2024
To Phoebe and Anna, Who Threw the Can of Tomato Soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Snapdragon, August 2024
Mandalas, MasticadoresUSA August 2024
Morning Walk, Thin Places and Sacred Spaces Anthology, Amethyst Review (forthcoming Fall 2024)
The Beach Reopens, Kelp Ocean Anthology, June 2024
My Mother’s Kitchen Silver Birch Press - All About My Mother Series, June 2024
Phases of the Moon, Storyteller Review, June 2024
Learning to Read and Navajo Sand Painting, TEACH. WRITE, April 2024
Becoming Educated, Vox Populi, March 2024
Star Visit, Pinesong 2024, Honorable Mention, Alice Osborne Award
The Scientific Method, Naugatuck River Review, narrative poetry contest finalist, Winter/Spring 2024
Discussing the Anthropocene with a Jellyfish, Feral December 2023, Canary (forthcoming)
Glass Figurine of a Kiss, Passionfruit Review, 2023 Contest Issue (commended)
Interior Landscape, Still Point Arts Quarterly Winter 2023
Reflections, Yellow Arrow Journal, November 2023
Ode to Halloween, Whale Road Review, September 2023
Self-Elegy, Sky Island Journal, October 2023
Bougainvillea, Banyan Review, September 2023
Interference, North Carolina Literary Review, February 2023 (James Applewhite Semi-Finalist)
Don’t Give Children Any Gifts Tied to Reading, Writers Resist, March 2023, video reading (28:48-33:28)
Navigation, Halfway Down the Stairs, September 2023
Perspective, Poetry Breakfast, September 7, 2023
Evening Itinerary of Two Septuagenarians, Ekphrastic Review Marathon, August 2023
Sunflowers, Poetry Breakfast, August 25, 2023
Understudy, One (Jacar Press) July 2023
Parable of the Foolish Virgins Revised, Litmosphere Lit/South Award finalist, April 2023
A Perpetual Calendar Addresses Its Owner, Ground Journal, November 2023
Praying Mantis, Pinesong - Mary Ruffin Poole Award winner, May 2023 (Pushcart Nomination)
What Am I? The Inflectionist Review, July 2023, reading and discussion (25:00 - end)
What the Salt Meant, Poetry South, December 2022 (Pushcart Nomination)
Finding Respite, Last Stanza Journal - a collaborative poem with Kate Bromley, April 2023
A Toast to What Remains and Pomegranate, Freshwater Literary Journal, May 2023
Shoe Store, Freshwater Literary Journal, May 2023 (Pushcart Nomination)
A Conversation with Henri Rousseau about his Vue de Bois de Boulogne, Third Wednesday, April 2023
Annual Poetry Contest winner, and Mary Blinn Contest finalist , video reading, Traveling Mollys Reading Series, August 2023 (34:20)
Hide & Seek, Poetry in Plain Sight Broadside, NC Poetry Society, May 2023
Ode to the Brick Wall, Hole in the Head Review, February 2023
Next Time, Hole in the Head Review , February 2023
Worker Painting the Spire of the Eiffel Tower, MacQueen’s Quinterly, January 2023
The Only Familiar Thing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, January 2023
Almost Morning, Kakalak 2022
Where They Go, CALYX, Winter/Spring 2023 audio reading
Woman and Man in Snow, Dodging the Rain, November 2022
Coat Hanger, IWWG Network, Fall 2022 (p. 23)
Throwback Trick or Treat, Plum Tree Tavern, 2022
When My College Roommate Visited Peru, Gyroscope Fall 2022
Called Into the Office to Meet My First Woman Boss, Quartet Fall 2022
Cake, Poetry in Plain Sight - NC Poetry Society, November 2022 Broadside
At Ocean’s Edge, Third Wednesday, fall 2022
In Search of Harmony, The Ekphrastic Review, August 2022
A Father Teaches His Daughter to Ride the Waves, Poetry East, Spring 2022
History in Black and White, Wordpeace, Summer/Fall 2022
The View of Halley’s Comet from the Chuska Mountains, Wordpeace, Summer/Fall 2022
Validation, Right Hand Pointing, July 2022
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act, Plum Tree Tavern July 2022
Putting Your Four-Year-Old to Bed the Night of Another Elementary School Mass Shooting, Verse Virtual, June 2022
Everything, One Art, March 2022
Camping in the Redwoods, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Spring 2022, YourDailyPoem June 2023
My Grandmother, Chautauqua Journal , Spring 2022
Homage to Angelica, As It Ought to Be Magazine, April 2022
Carpool Politics 1966, Evening Street Review, #33, Spring 2022
My Father, the Poet, Evening Street Review, #33, Spring 2022
Reset, Evening Street Review, #33, Spring 2022
Synagogue 1962, Evening Street Review, #33, Spring 2022
The Leap, Evening Street Review, #33, Spring 2022
An Observation from 300 Hours on Zoom, Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring 2022
After the House Fire, Eunoia Review, January 8, 2022
Superpowers, Ocotillo Review Winter 2022, PoetryXHunger, April 2023
First Word, Amethyst Review, December 2021
You Can’t Put the Red Sea in a Poem, Quartet, Winter Issue 2022
Garbage, Kosmos Quarterly, WInter 2022
Pedaling My Bike Past Jefferson Davis Place, Kosmos Quarterly, WInter 2022
Unfurling, Traveling, and After the Shift, Verse Virtual, December 2021
Sunrise Sonnet for My Son, Juniper Poetry Journal, Fall 2021 (Ruminate Broadside Prize Finalist)
Trust, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, November 2021
Recipe, Your Daily Poem, November 9, 2021
Falling in Love is the Wrong Idiom, Hole in the Head Review, November 2021
The Senior Citizen and the Boy Scout, Hole in the Head Review, November 2021
Searchlights, Front Porch Review, October 2021, p.26
Old Folks, Third Wednesday, Fall 2021, page 6, 50/50 Contest Winner
Christmas Tree Recycled in the Dunes, Third Wednesday , Fall 2021 , page 6
Ready, Prime Number Magazine, October 2021, Winner, Summer Challenge
Carnival, Verse-Virtual, September 2021
Sand Stories, Verse-Virtual , September 2021
Mindless, Trouvaille Review, September 5, 2021
My Mother’s Kitchen, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, August 30, 2021
Anticipation, Global Poemic, June 2021
Again, Verse-Virtual, July 2021
Rescue, Your Daily Poem, July 3, 2021
Traction, Neologism Poetry Journal, July 2021
Bluefish Lane, Tipton Poetry Journal, Spring 2021, p. 40
Brothers-in-Arms Valentines Day Gun Sale, Rise Up Review, July 2021
BABY!, Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. VI, No. 1, Spring 2021, Reading of BABY! (53:23), Braided Way Magazine, April 2022
Words Matter: Choose Wisely, Gyroscope Review, Spring 2021, Issue 21-2, p. 70
Maps, Love in the Time of COVID Chronicles, March 1, 2021, Sailor’s Review, April 2022, Qantara House Anthology of Hope, Strength & Healing (forthcoming)
Private Property - KEEP OUT, Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 08, Chapter 03
Words, Poetry in Plain Sight Broadside, 2019
Tribute to Mary Oliver, Flying South, No. 6, 2019
December, Flying South, No. 5, 2018; Soul-Lit, Summer 2021
The Field, Flying South, No. 5, 2018
Especially, but not only, for Educators:
A Promise to My Students in the Age of Common Core, Language Arts, March 2014
Learning, Language Arts, September 2008
Poetry Lesson: Grade 6, Language Arts, 85:3, January 2008
Anthologies
The Wonder of Small Things, edited by James Crews, Workman 2023 (“Sunrise Sonnet for My Son”)
Thin Places and Sacred Spaces Anthology, Amethyst Review (“Morning Walk”) September 2024
Moonstone Arts Center Banned Books Anthology, September 2024 (“Don’t Give Children Any Gifts Tied to Reading”)
Ocean Poetry Anthology, Kelp Press, June 2024 (“The Beach Reopens”)
Duo Anthology, Linen Press, March 2024 (“Self-Elegy” and “When My College Roommate Visited Peru”)
Moonstone Arts Center Motherhood Anthology (“Putting Your Four-Year-Old to Bed the Night of Another Elementary School Mass Shooting”) June 2023
Moonstone Arts Center Ekphrastic Anthology (“History in Black and White”) June 2023
Whispering Willows, Arbor Day Foundation Anthology 2022 (“Christmas Tree Recycled in the Dunes”)
Hope Anthology, Qantara House (“Maps”) forthcoming
What is All This Sweet Work? Love and Loss Anthology, Vita Brevis Press (“Falling in Love is the Wrong Idiom” and “Wading into the River”)
Outlying Voices, Parkland Poet’s Society, Volume 5 2023 (“After the Shift”)
Awards
Finalist, James Applewhite Prize 2024, NC Literary Review
Honorable Mention, Kalakak 2024
Merit Award, Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest 2024
Honorable Mention, Alice Osborne Award, NC Poetry Society 2024
Winner, Third Wednesday 2023 Annual Poetry Contest
First place, Mary Ruffin Poole Award, NC Poetry Society 2023
Finalist, Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest 2023
Finalist, Lit/South Poetry Contest 2023
Finalist, Mary Blinn Poetry Contest 2023
Pushcart Prize Nominee by Freshwater Literary Journal 2023
Pushcart Prize Nominee by NC Poetry Society 2023
Pushcart Prize Nominee by Poetry South 2022
Semi-Finalist, James Applewhite Poetry Prize 2022
Eric Hoffer Nominee, 2022 (To Drink from a Wider Bowl)
Sinclair Poetry Prize 2021 for To Drink from a Wider Bowl
Finalist, Ruminate Broadside Poetry Prize 2021
50/50 Contest Winner and Poem of the Week, 2021 Fall Issue, Third Wednesday
Honorable Mention, Lena Shull Book Award 2021
Finalist, North Carolina Poetry Society Poet Laureate Award 2021
Finalist, NC State Poetry Contest 2021
Winner, Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge, 2021
Winner, Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress Award (Picture Books), 2018
Honorable Mention, Children’s Poetry, North Carolina Poetry Society Awards, 2019 Pinesong
Articles, Book Chapters about Teaching/Writing/Poetry:
Book Review of Jerrice Baptiste’s Coral in the Diaspora, Verse Virtual, October 2024
“Craft Thoughts: Honoring the Poem’s First Draft,” blogpost on Yellow Arrow Publishing, July 5, 2022.
“On Time and Poetry,” Rasinski, T.V., et. al, eds., Developing Reading/Writing Connections, Strategies from The Reading Teacher, IRA, 2000. (“Best of Reading Teacher” series)
“Developing Students’ Awareness of Their Strengths as Writers with an I Can Chart,” Richards, J.C. and Lassonde, C.A., Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students in Grade 4-6, Corwin, 2012.
Durham, J. “Act it out to discover the details,” Richards, J.C. and Lassonde, C.A., Writing Strategies for All Primary Students: Scaffolding Independent Writing, Jossey- Bass, 2011
“A Joyful Noise: The Poetry of Teaching with Two Voices,” Scwartz, G. and Alberts, J. Teacher Lore and Professional Development for School Reform, Praeger, 1998
Book Excerpt From Google