“I Scan Zillow Mansions,” Verse-Virtual (Oct 2025). This poem gathers my quiet noticings of life’s fragility right in my own backyard.
“Shuhada’ Sadaqat” is more than a poem, it is a love letter to the late Sinéad O’Connor (Shuhada’ Sadaqat) and will be part of the forthcoming anthology, Nothing Compares to You, edited by Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne.
“Jumping From a Cedar Lake Pier, circa 1970’s,” Writer’s Digest. “Jumping From a Cedar Lake Pier, circa 1970’s” was awarded Honorable Mention in the Non-rhyming Poetry category of the 94th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. (nearly 3800 submissions)
“Over-Sized Ghazal,” The Limberlost Review, 2025
“Amber Howling,” forthcoming, Presence: Opening Words and Closing Lines (Willowdown Books), July 2025
“Kneeling Whispers of Desperate Wants,” Looking In, Looking Out (Willowdown Books), Autumn, 2024
“Before the Last Sigh,” a Rondeau at The Bangalore Review, August 2024
“The Endowment of Butter,” in Humans of the World June 2024
“Strolling with My Grandmother in the Center of a War” 2nd Place Winner, Sad Girl Diaries, May 2024
“We Drank Our Coffee and Believed” in MacQueen’s Quinterly, April 2024, Issue 23
“Shouldered in Train Rhythm” in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, March 2024
“at the end of my shrinking,” forthcoming, Looking In, Looking Out (Willowdown Books), forthcoming, Autumn, 2024
“The Confession of Two or More,” in The Limberlost Review, 2024
“At the end of my shrinking” in Passengers Journal, V4, Issue 2
“A Soft Food Diet Doesn’t Always Heal the Heart” in Passengers Journal, March 2021
“He said, she said” in The Blue Mountain Review, November, 2020
“How to Cover a Bruise” in The Poetic Bond X (Watch/Listen Here)
“Trash-binning” in The Blue Mountain Review, November, 2020 and in The Poetic Bond X, 2020
“I am rare and unlovable” in The Blue Mountain Review, November, 2020 and in The Poetic Bond X (Watch/Listen Here), 2020
“I Wanted to be Your Wall” at Survivor Lit, Summer 2020
“Amended” in The Rumpus, April 2019
