It was such an honor to be included in Rust Belt Publishing’s Indianapolis Anthology. Rust Belt has an amazing series of publications all from Midwestern writers. There are so many friends, colleagues and fabulous Indianapolis writers included in this anthology. Here is my contribution, a poem about my many years working as a floral department…

Many thanks to the Babel Tower Notice Board for publishing one of my Iris Basilica Visual Poems. These pieces were inspired by my love of Iris and the glossy gardening catalogs that advertise them and their outrageous varietal names. I started with collage, and I added a lot of paint, marker, cut out text, etc….

I’m so grateful to have this piece in EcoTheo Review. Some of the lines from this poem began in my head (and in journals) 20 years ago, when I was working for the South Carolina Botanical Garden! For some reason, a couple of those lines came back to me recently, and they came back with…

Many thanks to Joanna Valente at Yes, Poetry for publishing a piece of my visual art, Beyond The Glass

A huge thank you to the folks at Talking About Strawberries All The Time for publishing the first pieces from my series of Visual Poems: Iris Basilicas. Each piece also bears the name of the variety that was collaged into the poem. These pieces were inspired by the Iris varieties in gardening catalogues, combined with…

Shame has trailed me throughout my life and can really weigh me down. Once, someone asked me where I got my shame from. The easy answer is 13 years of Catholic school, but I know it’s more complicated than that. This poem is an imperfect meditation on that question. During the writing process, I paired…

I was very lucky to be invited by Naoko Fujimoto to contribute to her series “Working on Something” Collecting Essays and Inspiration from poets! She requested that I write about how I curate the visual art and visual poetry for my journal, The Indianapolis Review. This was a daunting task for me and one that…

The brilliant artist/writer Naoko Fujimoto has been curating graphic reviews of books on the RHINO website, and asked me to contribute a review of my choice. I immediately knew I wanted to review Ladan Osman’s Exiles of Eden, as the book came out somewhat recently, and Osman is one of my favorite writers. I was…

This was a big deal for me to publish this poem that I worked on for years and that deals with so much personal family history and generational trauma. Colorado Review is a dream publication in which to have placed this poem!  

I was so honored to have my poem, “O Fortune, Are You Listening?”, first published in The Literary Review, featured on Verse Daily! I can’t tell you how many times I completely revised this poem and worked on it through some of my toughest challenges as a mother. I always hated hearing that it could…

I was so honored to featured earlier this summer in the listener updates on my favorite poetry podcast, Commonplace , hosted by Rachel Zucker. My update is near the end of the episode, and in it I talk about my experience with having COVID and how I was feeling about the state of the country,…

My poems “O Fortune, Are You Listening?” “Household Spirits of Small Apartments” and “Dreamscape With Fist of Wisteria” all found an excellent home in this fascinating issue of The Literary Review, which is themed GRANARY. I am lucky that as of last year I am no longer an adjunct and I now have a full…