Publications

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Video Appearances:

• Cambridge Common Writers
• Stone Soup Poetry
• Online Launch for Arboretum in a Jar
• Cervena Barva Press Reading (with Jennifer Badot)
• PoemWorks, July 2024

Poems in Journals and Anthologies:

• Anthology: In the Time of COVID: “On the Ferry to Spectacle Island.” Nixes Mate Review, 2021.
• Lily Poetry Review. “What a Mess I’ve Made.” Issue 6, Summer 2021.
• Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. “cross-country suite.” September 2021.
• Nixes Mate Review. “On the Ferry to Spectacle Island.” April 2021.
• Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic: “Pandemic Spring,” “I Hike to the End of the Trail,” and “April, Merciless.” Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021.
• Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices: “April, Merciless.” April 2020.
• Naugatuck River Review: “All-Night Diner.” Winter/Spring 2020.
• Fire Poetry Journal: “The Marigolds, the River, the Oaks.” July 15, 2019.
• Heavy Feather Review: “What Snow White Swallows,” “Fox News Princess,” and “Lovers Rapunzel Finds in the Wilderness.” May 10, 2019.
• SWWIM Every Day: “A Copy of Szymborska’s Collected Poems Abandoned on a Table.” May 18, 2018.
• Blanket Sea: “What the Crows Did” and “The Window.” March 19, 2018.
• Mass Poetry Poem of the Moment: “Trespassers.” February 22, 2017.
• 823 on High: “The Five Butterflies.” April 20, 2017.
• Cape Cod Poetry Review: “Midwinter, Provincetown.” Spring 2016.
• Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing. “Grief, Ambition, Knot of Self.” Fall 2015.
• Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “The Flooded Field.” Number 43, 2015.
• Incessant Pipe: “The Fish Head.” April 17, 2015.
• Marathon Literary Review: “The Secrets of Sourdough.” Issue 8 (June 2015)
• Dirty Chai: “The Kitchen Poem.” Summer 2015 Issue. Read the issue as a PDF
• Oddball Magazine: “For Beth with the Golden Hair.” February 25, 2015.
• The dVerse Anthology: Voices of Contemporary World Poetry: “Letters from Provincetown.” Plum White Press, 2013.
• Lyrical Somerville. “Some Notes on Boston in Early Spring.” 2012.
• PIF Magazine: “How Do You Keep Your Tempest?” Circa 1996.
• Chronogram. 1996.
• The Writer. Circa 1991.

The Bait/Switch Project

• A multidisciplinary project where each piece of art builds off another. 
• January 2020:
  • “Maple Seed Princess.”
  • Inspired by the drawing “Seedling,” by Max Church.
  • Instigated the photo series Becoming Mother: Studies in Birth and Detritus, by Adrianne Mathieowitz.
  • This entire
• Vol 2, Issue 2, Spring 2021:
  • “Cosmic Turtle,”
  • Inspired by the drawing “Round,” by Anna Ryan.
  • Instigated the drawing “Cosmic Turtle,” by Georgia Warren.
  • Buy a print copy here.

Blackout Poetry

• As part of Mass Poetry’s Revision series (page through the image gallery)

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Interviews with Poets

• All poet interviews linked from this page
• Interviews at The Rumpus

Interviews with Organizers of Poetry Reading Series In and Around Boston

For Mass Poetry

• Brookline Reading Series
• Newton Free Library Reading Series
• New England Poetry Club
• Brockton Public Library (Everyone Has a Voice)
• Rozzie Reads (Roslindale MA)
• Dire Literary
• Lily Poetry Salon
• Solidarity Salon
• Unearthed Song and Poetry
• Voices of Poetry

Other Interviews

• Nicci Mechler of Porkbelly Press.
• Carolina de Robertis, Author of Gods of Tango.
• Tawnysha Green, Author of A House Made of Stars.

Reviews

• The Martha Collins Race Trilogy.
• The Expanse, by S.A. Corey.
• Amazon Burning, by Victoria Griffiths.
• Mark of Voodoo, by Sharon Caulder