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Poems And Short Fiction
Here is an updated list, with links, to recently published and forthcoming poems:
2022
“What Grandma Read at the Bottom of My Cup,” anthologized in Underlying Conditions, 9th print ed., Pangyrus
“Honey”
2021
“What My Children Teach,” shortlist, August 2021 Remember the Rainbows Lockdown BabyBabble Competition
“Mint”
“What Grandma Read at the Bottom of My Cup”
“The Order of Things (before Francesca)”
“Ice Man”
“ever/After,” “from afar,” “no joke” (fourteen-word fairytales)
“Swamp Thing” (anthologized in Moving Images: Poetry Inspired by Film, April 2021)
“A Certain Slant,” first place, February 2021 Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge
2020
“Puzzling”
“Indebted”
“Castles”
“Music”
“Almost”
“Tempest”
“St. Magdalen Cemetery & Mausoleum”
“Pressure”
“John’s Guitar Speaks to Me in a Vision”
A TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE: “Invisible Woman Materializes at Monsters Anonymous,” “Zombie (On Behalf of ,” and “Swamp Thing” )
“Mother Tongue,” honorable mention, 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award
“Abbondanza,” honorable mention, February 2020 Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge
“Prayer”
“I Will Not Speak of the Dead”
2019
“XIV”
2018
“Baltimore” (Heart and Humanity, December 2018, no link)
“Solitaire” (Heart and Humanity, October 2018, no link)
“To the Past—After Visiting the Rutgers Geology Museum” (Heart and Humanity, October 2018, no link)
2017
Here is a list, with links, to recently published short stories and flash fiction:
2021
“Izabella,” runner-up, Loud Coffee Press 2021 Summer Micro-Fiction Contest
“Lately” (dribble), included in The Dribble Drabble Review Anthology I-V
“There Are No Dogs in This Story” (drabble), nomination, 2021 Pushcart Literary Prize, 2021 Best Microfiction, included in The Dribble Drabble Review Anthology I-V
“How to Comfort a Mountain” (fifty-word story), Story of the Week
“ever/After,” “from afar,” “no joke” (fourteen-word fairytales)
2019
“Tulips,” first place, 2019 A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest