I am so honored that my poem, “Night Garden,” will be featured alongside Nancy Smith‘s beautiful paintings in the WomenSpeak ekphrastic exhibition at the FRANK Gallery in Chapel Hill, N.C. I’ve also been invited to read the poem during the exhibition’s launch weekend March 8-10th, 2019. Continue reading Poetry in Upcoming Ekphrastic Art Gallery Exhibition
My poem, “In Search of a Karass,” will be published in The Maine Review. Continue reading Poetry Forthcoming in The Maine Review
My poem, “Tilt-A-Whirl,” has been published as part of Entropy‘s Weather series. The poem was inspired by my experience in the June, 1998 Eastern Tornado Outbreak. Continue reading Poetry in Entropy Now Available
My poem, “Tilt-A-Whirl,” will be published as part of Entropy‘s “Weather” series. Continue reading Poetry Forthcoming in Entropy
My ekphrastic poem, “For Want of an Ark,” is the first collaborative work published in the new “Call & Response” series by the Looking at Appalachia photography project, which has been featured in The New York Times and National Geographic. My poem was inspired by my own experience in the “1,000-year flood” of Elk River … Continue reading Ekphrastic Poem in Looking at Appalachia Project
I am so excited to have my poem, “Ism,” accepted for publication in So It Goes, the literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library. The poem will be included in the 2018 “Lonesome No More!” edition of So It Goes. I’ve also been invited to read the poem at the museum for during … Continue reading Poetry Forthcoming in Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library’s Journal
My poems, “Seafarers” and “The Parting Glass,” are now online at John Hopkin University’s digital archive, Project Muse. Originally published in Appalachian Heritage, the poems are about connections between Ireland and West Virginia. Continue reading Poetry Archived at Project Muse
My 8-part poetic sequence on sexual assault and domestic violence, “House of Horrors,” is now up at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. If you have been affected by sexual assault, you are not alone. RAINN provides free, confidential support (by web chat or phone) 24/7 at online.rainn.org. Continue reading Poetry at Queen Mob’s Teahouse Now Available
The new issue of Barzakh is now online and features my poem, “Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot.” Continue reading Poetry in Barzakh Now Available
My chapbook, Cover Us with Mountains, is a finalist in Bone & Ink Press‘ 2018 Chapbook Series. Continue reading My Chapbook a Finalist in Bone & Ink Press’ 2018 Chapbook Series!
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