A grateful heart, a final chapter
In my final weeks before retirement, I can’t give enough thanks to the universe for my many blessings.
Big news: The Grief Committee Minutes has found a home!
I’m delighted to share that my debut full-length book of poems is coming soon from Saint Julian Press! After three years of circulating my manuscript, three editors, three finalist designations (is there something about the number three?) — The Grief Committee Minutes has finally found a publisher. Saint Julian Press, based in Houston, will be […]
TGC finals for Wandering Aengus Book Award
Bring it, 2024! A sweet highlight of 2023 came toward the end of it, and I’m hoping portends more good news in the months to come. My full-length collection made the finalist list in the Wandering Aengus Book Award competition. This acknowledgement was one more form of validation for the work, which amassed some very special […]
Third Place: ASP Bulletin Poetry Contest
I haven’t written a lot of new poems lately, choosing to concentrating instead on submitting poems within my book manuscript that have yet to find a home. So when I read on Blue Sky that the ASP Bulletin — a publication of Alan Squire Publishing — was holding its inaugural poetry contest, I thought, why […]
TGC comes close again: Finalist, Barry Spacks Prize
Hooray for late summer news! My little manuscript is being read and considered by several different publishers right now. I tend to dismiss my chances for earlier versions of the work, as I’ve kept revising it over a two-year period, so I was completely surprised and pleased to learn that a slightly earlier version of […]
Finalist honors! Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
My first-book manuscript, The Grief Committee, has gotten a little love! I’m thrilled. I learned a few weeks ago that I was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, which carries a $1,000 award and book publication. While I didn’t win…I really did, because this is the most meaningful recognition I’ve had yet for […]
Finalist honors: 2022 River Heron Poetry Prize
I learned this week that a poem of mine made it into the top five in the contest.
A “Sweet’ month for poetry
A finalist nod in a competition after years of trying made for a
Good news in hard times
A Pushcart nomination for a special poem was an expected boost.
Noteworthy? They think so. Grateful for acknowledgement by UCity Review
As I write this, it’s April 11, 2021, just over a year since the pandemic changed life as all of us know it.