Publications

Poems:


Birthday Elegies Series

Dendrochronology (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

This group of poems was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry. It contains "birthday elegies" composed over the course of several years. My discussion of these poems in this blog is here. If you're curious, you might enjoy this NPR story about dendrochronology in practice.

Perigee as choral work composed by Abby Henkel and performed by Voces Novae, March 2023.



Video recorded reading of Perigee from the 2021 Palm Beach Poetry Festival. 

collaborative poem with Judith Roney published by Burning House Press and selected by February 2019 guest editor Adrianna Robertson on the theme of The Mind as Prison & Asylum. Judith and I collaborated as members of the Poetry Barn community on an "exquisite corpse" (a turn-taking game). She sent out the opening lines as an invitation, and I accepted the "challenge" by being the first to respond. We went back and forth for a total of 11 times. After a few turns, we settled on a tercet form and arrived at the 10 stanzas that appear in the final poem. Judith submitted our poem along with several of her own, and ours appears as the third one in a set called Three Poems by Judith Roney.
Dear Hope, Although
poem in the Poetry Distillery for poems that emerge within the Poetry Barn community (where I've been taking poetry courses since November 2015).
Face card
poem in the Mom Egg Review's Vox Mom Blog for February 2016, curated by Sharon Dolin (my Barcelona poetry teacher). More info

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Essays:

"Objects of My Attention" in issue 83 of Quarterly West
Winner of the 2014 Writers at Work Fellowship in literary nonfiction (selected by Robin Hemley)

This I Believe radio essay: Apprenticed to Hope broadcast on May 12, 2008 on KUER in Salt Lake City

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Series on this blog:


Learning from . . .

Learning from Ellen Bass
Learning from Lawrence Coates
Lapidaries--Preview to Learning from Robin Hemley
Learning from Michael Martone

18 Years Ago: Remembering when Simon was born

18 Years Ago: May 1st--Simon's birthday is coming
18 Years Ago: May 2nd--Serial inspiration
18 Years Ago: May 3rd--Full term
18 Years Ago: May 4th--Baby's room
18 Years Ago: May 5th--Doula
18 Years Ago: May 6th--The sports edition
18 Years Ago: May 7th--Serially...
18 Years Ago: May 8th--Day before due date meets historical anniversary
18 Years Ago: May 9th--Due date!
18 Years Ago: May 10th--The fashion post
18 Years Ago: May 11th--Motion
18 Years Ago: May 12th--Stretch
18 Years Ago: May 13--Traffic (phone post)
18 Years Ago: May 14th--Belly
18 Years Ago: May 15th--Balance
18 Years Ago: May 16th--Quieting down
18 Years Ago: May 17th--1997 Great Joy!
18 Years Ago: May 17th--2015 Life keeps moving
18 Years Ago: May 18th--The day after
18 Years Ago: May 19th--Cocooning
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