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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

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

2020 pushcart prize nomination, "prayer down depot road"

slapering hol press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

two sylvia's press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

swan scythe press chapbook contest finalist, 2021

frost place chapbook fellowship finalist, 2021

off the grid poetry prize finalist, 2021

gerald cable book award finalist, 2021

nyc poets afloat residency, april 2022

hilary tham capital collection finalist, 2022

sundress publications chapbook contest finalist, 2022

idaho prize for poetry finalist, 2022

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

frontier poetry ekphrastic prize, 2023 longlist

awards & residencies

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