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"grandmom's round moon cookies"

american poetry review

"the book of glittering leaves"
cider press review

gone to the larkspurs
colorado review

"flashback with paper birch & rock garden"
ruminate magazine
 
summer remains | a poem i can’t write”
swwim 
   










" in the squall i think washington square park is a jackson pollock"
the night heron barks 
 
citgo picture
indolent books: poems in the afterglow
 
valentine's day
american poetry review

after a massacre
mid-american review

selected poems
awp 2023 wednesday night poetry @cafe racer with kai coggin & friends
awards

irwin & alice stark poetry prize in memory of raymond patterson, the city college of new york, 2017

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jerome lowell dejur award in creative writing, the city college of new york, 2020

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2020 pushcart prize nomination, "prayer down depot road"

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slapering hol press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

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two sylvia's press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

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swan scythe press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

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frost place chapbook fellowship finalist, 2021

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off the grid poetry prize finalist, 2021

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gerald cable book award finalist, 2021

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nyc poets afloat residency, april 2022

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hilary tham capital collection finalist, 2022

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sundress publications chapbook contest finalist, 2022

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idaho prize for poetry finalist, 2022

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2023 best of the net nomination, "colors of a roadhouse porch"

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frontier poetry ekphrastic prize, 2023 longlist, "still life with vincent"

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rhino 2025 Founders Prize finalist, "during the war"

awards & residencies

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