Poetry Aloud

“When We Lost” Prize-winner, Diablo Valley College Poetry Contest. Featured in Susurrus Magazine 2015.

“Shallots” originally published in now-defunct Milk Journal 2015

“Why are you Dashing my Dreams of Being an Artisan Cheese-maker upon the Rocks of Cruel Reality?”


“Ithica” featured in Dark Confessions Anthology published by Black Bough Poetry

Poetry Reading Collection

Selected Published Poems

A poem about migraines and literary theory. Theta Wave, The Grain of the Voice in the Failing Head

The Poetry Question: Power of Poetry Essay Series, Power of Poetry #83: Poetry has destroyed my life. But I keep coming back to it like an attic-wife.

Menacing Hedge, A Foundress Quakes & Steep the Candle with a Bell—Slake Her Fire ‘Scary Bush Feature’, Two Untitled Pieces

Fevers of the Mind, Feature with a series of pandemic poems & Avalanches in Poetry pieces

Winnow Magazine Sims Pop-Up Issue, +5 Very Sad; During the Pandemic I Become an Astronaut

Poems inspired by Animal Crossing and Mean Girls, The Daily Drunk, This Home Defies All Structural Sense; Meaning

The Wild Word, A Meme for the Winged; Woman Wreathed in Seaweed

Random Sample Review: Social Samplings, What’s Full Bloom, Anyway?

The Ekphrastic Review, La Belle Captive ; The Ransom

Taco Bell Quarterly, Sappho at the Drive-Thru; o Taco!

Feminine Collective, Brísingamen ; Sounding

Twist in Time Mag, Recall Has Become An Affliction

Nightingale and Sparrow, Portents

Ghost City Review,  Watching Your Love Bloom

Iron Horse Literary Review, Two Hymns

Burning House Press, We Make Our Instruments; No Chicken

Door-Is-A-Jar, Bread and Love

Peculiars Magazine, I Know I Have to Take These Pills; Nesting : Boiling

Isacoustic, Misophonia

Eunoia Review, Stretch; She; Walnut; The Love Letter

Panoply, Pregnancy Pantoum

Stolen Time: An Anthology of Poems Written at Desk Jobs (Whatever Keeps the Lights On Mag,) A Mumble of Clouds

Whatever Keeps the Lights On Magazine, The Distance to Apple, Plastic Containment of Brown-Sugar Oatmeal, Green Tea

DVC Inquirer, Treat



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