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 WaveThe 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 WordA Meme for the Winged; Woman Wreathed in Seaweed

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

The Ekphrastic ReviewLa Belle Captive ; The Ransom

Taco Bell QuarterlySappho at the Drive-Thru; o Taco!

Feminine CollectiveBrísingamen ; Sounding

Twist in Time MagRecall Has Become An Affliction

Nightingale and SparrowPortents

Ghost City Review,  Watching Your Love Bloom

Iron Horse Literary ReviewTwo Hymns

Burning House PressWe Make Our Instruments; No Chicken

Door-Is-A-Jar, Bread and Love

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

IsacousticMisophonia

Eunoia ReviewStretch; She; Walnut; The Love Letter

PanoplyPregnancy 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 MagazineThe Distance to Apple, Plastic Containment of Brown-Sugar Oatmeal, Green Tea

DVC InquirerTreat


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