"Elisabeth Thible" and "Sleuth at the Seance" are included in Power of the Feminine I, vol. II.

A video of my poem "The Color of It" that's in included in the anthology From Pandemic to Protest, released fall 2021 from The Poetry Box.

But he knows something is owed the one who
gave him life. I’m not going up, the son says. Not worth the risk
of falling. I’ll call someone for you.

—from"Shortfall (Family Edition)," forthcoming in Broad River Review.


- Below: delightful cover art by Sarah Walko, from Pedestal Magazine issue 93, featuring my review of Joan Barasovska's Orange Tulips.



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African Burying Ground Memorial, Portsmouth, NH. Sculpture by Jerome Meadows.



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Girl in Pink, Harpswell, Maine

Sunrise, Acadia National Park, Maine

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Poetry.  Photography.

Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

- Two of my poems are among over 80 works of photography, illustration, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction in this new anthology edited by Rhonda Rosenheck.The watercolor cover art was painted by children’s book illustrator Anne Catharine Blake. Rhonda presents the work in six clusters: Noticing, Accepting, Wrestling, Opening, Entwining, and Exuberance. I'll join Rhonda and other contributors for a book tour event at the South Portland Barnes and Noble on August 17. Order from Exsolutas Press.

"Shortfall (Family Edition)" was selected as a finalist in Broad River Review's 2024 Ron Rash Awards for Poetry. The poem will appear in a future issue.


My review of Richard Blanco's lastest collection, Homeland of My Body,is in The Main Street Rag, spring 2024.


"From Away" will be included in an upcoming issue of Main Street Rag. The poem is about adapting to life in a new place.