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FORTHCOMING: 2024!

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Current Work Appears In:

  • About Place Journal: (online) Volume VII, Issue IV, (October 2023), "Hellebore: Lenten Rose"
  • Pedestal Magazine: (online) Issue 92 (Summer 2023), "Nesyamun"
  • Poem-of-the-Week (30 August – 6 September, 2023), “Hells Gate,” “Stasis,” “Sokushinbutsu”
  • Indianapolis Review: (online) Issue 25 (Summer 2023), “Evening Wind"
  • River Heron Review: (online) 1 August 2023, Issue 6.2, "Saint Giles' Doe"
  • Crosswinds Poetry Journal: Volume IX, 2023, "Turkey Buzzard Gospel"
    (Selected by Alexandria Peary, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, for Third Place in the 2023 Crosswinds Poetry Contest)
  • Lake Effect: Volume 27, Spring 2023, "Pietà: Father Mychal Judge"
  • Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems (Orison Books, Asheville, NC 2023): "After the First Bite"
  • And Blue Will Rise Over Yellow: An International Poetry Anthology for Ukraine. (Kallisto Gaia Press, Inc., Austin, TX 2023) "Pieta: Madonna of Mariupol, Ukraine"
  • James Dickey Review: Vol. 38, 2023, "Cor Cordium," "Icarus," "Saint Fillan"
  • South Florida Poetry Journal:  (February 2023 Issue 28 - online), "Pieta: Thích Quảng Đức (11 June 1963)"
  • Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works (anthology): "Writing My Obsessions" 
  • Raven’s Perch: 31 December 2023 (online). “Between Oneself and the World,” “I Have Been Half in Love…,” “Miserere for George Floyd,” “Pulmonary Edema”

Forthcoming (books):

​Forthcoming (journals):



Pietà (chapbook)
Winner of the 2023 Jacar Chapbook Competition.
Forthcoming from Jacar Press 2024

Advance Praise:
​"It is with immense pleasure and deep admiration that I choose 'Pieta' for the Jacar Press chapbook prize. 'Pieta' stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale.
With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language 'Pieta' paints vibrant and haunting landscapes of pain, and the human spirit's resolute capacity to endure.
Here is a poet who is exceptional and adept at the use of religious and historical symbolism. The poems skillfully weave these elements into a contemporary narrative, resulting in a rich and multi-layered reading experience. The juxtaposition of religious iconography with the harsh realities of the present day adds depth and complexity to the poems, inviting readers to contemplate the intersections of faith, suffering, and resilience."
         - Saddiq Dzukogi, Author of Your Crib, My Qibla​
​Great River Review: "To the Cursed Fig Tree"
​Taos Journal of Poetry: "Nocturne for My Final Breath," and "The Forest"
The Night Heron Barks: "What Light is Given"
The Pedestal Magazine: "Nesyamun"