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
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