• Many thanks to Thirty West Publishing House for choosing my poem, The Surest Poison, as winner of their sonnet challenge!  They are a micropress based in Philadelphia, which naturally appeals to me.  They will possibly re-publish this sonnet in a chaplet compilation of their contest winners.  This was a great way to celebrate National Poetry Month!

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  • Red Bird Chapbooks, a respected publisher of multiple genre type chapbooks, featured my poem “Origins” on their “Weekly Read” column and their facebook site.  Many thanks to editor Sarah Hayes! Red Bird does not limit itself to poetry chapbooks, so visit them to see all the possibilities they offer! From their site: “Red Bird Chapbooks…

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  • It was the year of the anthology for me, as four anthologies have accepted my poems, three of which will be published in 2017.  Also, it will be a first for my work to be included in an art exhibit!   2016: Year in Review Publications: 14 The Quarterday Review print and online (Maid Marian’s…

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  • My poem, “Monody for a Leading Man” has been published in Stonecoast Review‘s Winter 2016 issue 6.  Stonecoast Review: a literary arts journal published by the University of Southern Maine’s MFA program in Creative Writing.

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  • Pay Attention: Poems for Oral Interpretation, edited by John Pierce, now on sale at Amazon,  contains two of my longer persona pieces: “Her Last Cotillion” about Doc Holliday and his cousin Mattie (whom Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind was modeled after) and “Richard Lionheart’s Mummified Heart Examined” a piece in various voices about…

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  • Queens University of Charlotte, NC, has accepted my poem “Calle del Cristo, Old San Juan” for their ARTE LATINO NOW 2017 exhibition of Latino artists.  The poem will be read at the opening reception and the exhibit will run for a month: January  17, 2017  – February  17, 2017  10:00 AM  – 8:00 PM Max L. Jackson Gallery,…

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  • The Australia Times Poetry Magazine has published several of my poems, two in the October issue, “Inspiration” and “The Last Thing I’ll Lose” and has accepted two more for future publication!  They just featured one poem, “Bahia Honda Beach Conch” on their facebook page with a lovely photo of a conch.  I wrote this poem right…

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  • Many thanks to the editors of The Literary Arts Review for their two-page book review of my chapbook Shining from a Different Firmament!!  They are among the few journals that review poetry chapbooks!  I was expecting a few paragraphs but they went far beyond that; their thoughtful, thorough review highlighted the most unique and relevant aspects…

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  • The Copperfield Review, a journal which features historical fiction, poetry and great interviews of authors of historical fiction like Mary Doria Russell, Jean M. Auel, Jeff Shaara and John Jakes, has published three of my historical persona poems in their latest online issue:  Maid Joan’s Gethsemane (about Joan of Arc), Genesis, 1880 (about the first…

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