poetry

— 2024 —

Haibun for Mercy
Carlow University’s MFA 20th Anniversary Anthology

Have a listen to this above poem, included as part of my manuscript, tongue.s—

White Jeans
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

SHE/D
Semi-finalist in Word Works Washington Prize for a full-length manuscript

Residency

Faberllull / Olot, Catalunya

Readings & Open Mics

Sweet Action Poetry 10-year Celebratory Reading
East 4th Street Community Garden

Elizabeth Street Garden: Summer Poetry Series, Poetry in the Garden, w McNally Jackson

— 2023 —

Residencies

Millay Arts (NY)

NES Artist Residency (Iceland)

Write On, Door County (WI)

Cité Internationale des Arts (France)

Readings & Open Mics

Write On, Door County
Community presentation and reading on and of my poetry and translations of poetry

NES Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, organized an evening of multilingual poetry, and music, with Skagaströnd community readers, Mel.lif.lu.ous, and myself.

— 2022 —

By (an)other name
New Square, An Official Publication of the Sancho Panza Literary Society

Swift Diachrome
Amsterdam Quarterly

Diffract
Ginosko Literary Journal #29

Readings & Open Mics

International Poetry Forum w/end celebration with Carlow University, Pittsburgh

ALTA (American Literary Translators Association): Multilingual reading w Anna Gual

Pen + Brush: World Poetry Day and Women’s History Month, March

Governors Island New York City Poetry Festival, w Poets from Sweet Action Poetry Collective

Elizabeth Street Garden: Summer Poetry Series, Poetry in the Garden, w McNally Jackson

— 2021-2020 —

Exchange
Finalist
Poetry International Poetry Prize, Judge Vievee Francis

Have a listen to Exchange, written thanks to an ekphrastic workshop with Patricia Smith and her collection of photos from which she asked us to choose and react, included as part of my manuscript, SHE/D—

News about poems from a manuscript, SHE/D

Hoopla
and
12 Questions
Pen & Brush’s In Print (No.5), guest edited by Novella Ford

Shape Shift
Finalist
Telluride Institute Fischer Prize, Finalist. Judge, Claire Blotter

Long-listed
Fish Publishing Poetry Prize

Short-listed
Bridport Prize, Judge, Mimi Kahlvati

Alms, Dove Shells, Typical Univalve Mollusk
Long-listed
The Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Prize, Judge, Pascale Petit

Dove Shells
Finalist
Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest. Judge, Patricia Smith
Poem appears in Comstock Review’s fall/winter issue

Finalist
C&R Press Chapbook Prize

Finalist
Bermuda Triangle Prize

The Lady
Flying Ketchup Press, Tri-lingual Anthology: The Very Edge

The Hunt
Sonora Review, special issue on gender-based violence, Extinction

Readings & Open Mics

Featured Reader, along with City of Asylum writers-in-residence: RAISING OUR VOICES series
shared ideas of and activism for social justice and equality

Telluride Institute Bardic Trails Zoom Meeting Series
Featured Reader, as Fischer Prize Finalist

Elizabeth Street Garden (inaugural) Poetry Series
partnered w McNally Jackson

Open Streets: Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn

BETWEEN US: WHITMAN ON WALLS
Fort Greene Park, w Karin Coonrod & her Compagnia de’ Colombari

Milk and Cake Press Inaugural Authors’ Reading

Artful Dodgers, Brooklyn, NY

Palm Beach Festival Student Reading, as Ilya Kaminsky workshop participant

Sant Jordi NYC Book Festival

COMPASS concerts series (i-v)

— 2019-2017—

Finalist for the:

Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Prize

North American Review James Hearst Prize

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose Poetry Prize

Poets’ Billow Pangaea Poetry Prize
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Sound of Clothes
Part of glint and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2019
Winner, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Poetry Prize, 2017

Some poems & photos can also be found in:

Amsterdam Quarterly

Lavender Review

Manzano Mountain Review

Mudfish

New Square

The Rumpus

and in the anthologies

The Very Edge, a tri-lingual anthology
Flying Ketchup Press

Conclave: Justifying the Margins

Maximum Tilt Solstice Anthology
Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College

Sweet Action Poetry Collective chapbooks: Sweet Action Sampler, Buried Paths, My Mother Is A Tardigrade, Postcards to Real People I’ve Never Met

Readings & Open Mics

[crush] reading series, Woodbine

New York City Poetry Festival, Sweet Action Poetry Collective

International Walt Whitman Conference, 200^th Birthday, Walt Whitman Birthplace

Leah Oates’ Station Independent Projects Gallery – Often emcee’d by the singular host & poet Julie Hart, Emily Blair, Mirielle Clifford, Cynthia Manick, Judy Schneier, Chia-Lun Chang, Krystal Languell & others

Brooklyn Poets / EcoFest Poetry Reading

Vintage Works, Barcelona – including Antoni Clapés, Francesc Parcerisas, Mark Doty, Sophie Ugnon, Dolors Udina

Guild Literary Complex, Chicago: “Nossa America”, with poet Rodrigo Garcia Lopes

residencies

Faberllull / Olot, Catalunya

la Cité International des Arts (Paris)

Write On, Door County (WI)

NES Artist Residency (Skagaströnd)

Millay Arts (NY)

Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) at Firefly Farms (TN)

Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts (AL)

JIWAR: Residence for Artists and Researchers in Urban Creativity (Barcelona)

Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts