Publications - Savvy Verse & Wit

I spend a lot of time touting the writing of others, but this is my little list of publications.

Check them out:

Poetry:

“Glass Brain,” “Revenge is a feral cat,” and “When Laughter Ends,” in Live Encounters (2025)
“The Assignment” in America’s Future: Poetry and Prose in Response to Tomorrow (2025)
“Before enclosing memory in resilient love,” “Telescoping,” and “Road Work” in Live Encounters (2024)
“Subway Shuffle” was an honorable mention in the 2024 Moving Words Adult Competition (2024)
Haiku at Haiku Universe (2024)
“Transit’s Web” and “Boston Common” in Live Encounters 14th Anniversary Edition vol. 5 (2023)
“Imports” in WWPH Writes Issue #55 Tiny Poems (2023)
“Between Worlds,” “Fly,” and “Undulation” in The Write Launch (2023)
“Debris” in The Skinny Poetry Journal (2023)
“Endless Spiral” in Gargoyle Online #4 (2023)
“the bridge” and “Competition” in ArLiJo Issue #166 (2022)
“Surrender”, “What I Learned from Shark Week,” and “Air Weaving” in Live Encounters 13th Anniversary Edition (2022)
“Reward” in The Curator (2022)
“Food In(secure)” and “Food Bank Deposits” in Poet X Hunger (2022)
“Marvelous Creeper,” “Yellow Streak,” “Weeping Willow” in Bourgeon Online (2022)
“Marvelous Creeper” and “Yellow Streak” were part of Gordana Gerskovic’s exhibit of Photopoetry at the Foundry Gallery (2022)
“Faith” in Wisconsin Review, Vol. 54, Issue 1 (2022)
“Agoraphobia,” “Mannequin,” “Dear Vovo” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly (2022)
“Fresh Snow,” “Automat,” “Woodstock ’99,” “Cacerolazo,” “Holiday Dinner” in Live Encounters (2022)
“Mother Earth” in Halfway Down the Stairs (2021)
“Thanksgiving” in WWPH Writes Issue #13 (2021)
“When You Want to Stay,” “Piano,” and “Family History” in Bourgeon Online (2021)
“Now I See My Life with New Eyes” a crowd-sourced poem from Literary Hill BookFest (2021) — my lines: “An apple peel curls around my hand,/touch like skin on skin. My daughter smiles,/leans into me, eager for a bite.” Also at The Hill Rag.
“America is” in This Is What America Looks Like anthology (2021)
“Is this the worth of us?” and “Gun Safety” and “Hide-and-Seek 2.0” at The Magnolia Review (2021) (download the PDF)
“Practice” and “Apprentice” at MacQueen’s Quinterly (2021)
“Remote Work” and “In the distance” at Mom Egg Review’s Pandemic Parenting (2020)
“Take Heed” at Poemeleon: The Plague Papers (2020)
“Superhero” at Poemeleon: The Plague Papers (2020)
“Beauty is a death sentence” at Dissonance Magazine (2020)
“Migraine” and “America Is Dead,” at Beltway Poetry Quarterly (2020)
“‘Out damned spot’” at The Hill Rag (2020)
“Death of a People” at Broadkill Review (2019)
“Namaste” at Eudaimonia Press and Love_Is_Love: An Anthology for LGBTQIA+ Teens (see below) (2019)
“School Yard Games” and “Bully Archer” at Bourgeon (2019)
“A Poem to Save Us” at Mothers Always Write (2017)
“Pergola” at Bourgeon (2017)
“Dignified Opposition” and “Just Mom” at Dime Show Review (2017)
3 haiku at Better Than Starbucks (2017)
“Copper Peaches” at Tepid Autumn and Beginnings Magazine. (2016)
“Reincarnation” and “Sacrifice” and “Frailty” and “Mother” at Tepid Autumn (2016)
1 haiku at Wild Plum (2016)
“Behind the Curve” at Baseball Bard (2015)
“Campaign 2004” and “Debate 2004” at Pedestal Magazine (2004)
2 haiku at LYNX (2004)
2 Cinquain at LYNX (2003)

Essays/Interviews:

“What Is the One Thing the Pandemic Has Taught You About Writing” at Brevity (2021)
“Writers and Creators Discuss What It Means to Make Art in the Trump Era” at Electric Literature (2017)
“The Poetry Scene – Twenty Years Later” at Modern Creative Life (2017)
“Overnight Success Is Overrated: A Book Bloggers Journey” at Luna Luna Magazine (2016)
“Blogging: Savvy Verse & Wit” at Writer’s Center (2011)