Poems

2025
Amethyst Review – “Pond Life”

Does It Have Pockets – “Breakage” and “Heist”

Poems From Here (Maine Public Radio) – “Embalming”

MORIA Literary Magazine – “Photograph”

Chiron Review, Issue #137, Summer 2025 – “Black Sheep” and “Plaids”

On the Seawall – “The Visible Woman” – forthcoming

2024
Amethyst Review – “Ordinary Miracle”

Amethyst Review – “Coming Up for Air”

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 12, 2024 – Featured Poet: Collection of 16 poems and author interview

Chiron Review, Issue #132, Spring 2024 – “Bucket List” and “Train Whistle”

Read To Me Some Poem, anthology to celebrate the Longfellow Days reading series’ 20th anniversary, edited by Maryli Tiemann & Alice Persons – “The In-Between”

2023
On the Seawall – “I Dream About Buying a Gun”

Poetry Breakfast – “Kaleidoscope”

Hole In The Head Review, Vol. 4, No.2, May 2023 – “A Pipe Burst”

MORIA Literary Magazine, Issue Eleven, Spring 2023 “Embalming”

MORIA Literary Magazine, Issue Eleven, Spring 2023 – “Rural Character”

2022
Book of Matches, Issue 6 – “Salt Marsh” (page 63 of journal, page 75 in flipbook)

On the Seawall – “The In-Between” and “Manus Miraculum”

Cape Elizabeth Land Trust 2022 Poetry and Photo Contest Winner – “Search Party”

San Pedro River Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2022 – “Flammable”

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 9, Spring 2022 – “Stargazers” and “Widow’s Weeds”

2021
ONE ART: a journal of poetry – “Almost Sea Glass”

Muddy River Poetry Review – “Wink, Not Wince”

Thimble Literary Magazine – “Unexpected Lifeboat”

Rust + Moth – “Boom Town” (online edition)

Rust + Moth, Autumn 2021 – “Boom Town” (print edition)

Global Poemic – “Fully Vaccinated”

The Night Heron Barks – “Spring Unveils Beginnings and Endings”

MORIA Literary Magazine – “Broken”

Global Poemic – “Eighty Percent”

Silver Birch Press – “How to Fix a Faucet That Drips”

Amethyst Review – “Dust to Dust

Chiron Review, Issue #121, Spring 2021- “Kin”

Chiron Review, Issue # 123, Fall 2021- “Annulment,” “The Benevolent Dictator,” “Salt”

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 7, Spring 2021 – “A Busy Day at the Cemetery” and “On Phantom Farm Road”

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 8, Fall 2021 – “Ghost Woods”

San Pedro River Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2021 – “High Tide”

2020
Psaltery & Lyre – “Marathon Man”

Muddy River Poetry Review – “Good Day”

Tipton Poetry Review #45 – Summer 2020 – “Saint Alban’s” (online and print)

Thimble Literary Magazine – “About My Life”

MockingHeart Review – “My Mother’s Lungs”

Frost Meadow Review – Pandemic Poetry – “Curbside Veterinary Appointment” – May 27, 2020

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 5, Spring 2020 – “Torquemada” (Editor’s Choice Award) and “A Bloodless Thing” (online edition)

Frost Meadow Review, Vol. 5, Spring 2020 – “Torquemada” (Editor’s Choice Award) and “A Bloodless Thing” (print edition)

2019
Rust + Moth, Winter 2019 – “Ashes to Ashes” (online edition)

Rust + Moth, Winter 2019 – “Ashes to Ashes” (print edition)

The Ekphrastic Review – “Who’s Your Girl?”

Thimble Literary Magazine – “Porcupine”

Lewiston Sun Journal – In verse: Maine places and people, June 16 – “Beach with No Name” (online and print)

Ghost City Review – “New Year’s Poem”

Welcome Home, Poems by Maine Poets, anthology to honor Gov. Janet Mills edited by Carol Willette Bachofner – “History Whispers”

the Aurorean, Spring/Summer 2019 – “Busted”

Forklift, Ohio, Issue #37, Spring 2019 – “Edie’s Tank Top”

2018
The Ekphrastic Review – “At the Movies”

Whale Road Review – “Outside the Crypt”

Menacing Hedge – “Up and Down” and “Relics”

The Ekphrastic Review – “Kintsugi”

Amethyst Review – “Pseudacris crucifer (Peepers)”

Psaltery & Lyre – “Safer”

The American Journal of Poetry – “Pulling”

Lewiston Sun Journal – In verse: Maine places and people, December 23 – “Winter Moths” (online and print)

the Aurorean, Fall/Winter 2018 – 2019 – “Horse Chestnut Tree”

Chiron Review, Issue #112/113, Summer/Fall 2018 – “Baggage” and “Side Effects”

the Aurorean, Spring/Summer 2018 – “Swamps”

Lewiston Sun Journal, In verse: Maine places and people, April 22 – “My Life with Matisse” (online and print)

San Pedro River Review, Vol. 10 No.1, Spring 2018 – “One Regret”

2017
Poetry Breakfast – “Ice Land”

Poetry Breakfast – “Adrift”

Whale Road Review – “Bent”

Menacing Hedge – “Fugitive Red,” “Sixteen Balls of Yarn and a Few Loose Strands,” “History Whispers”

Tinderbox Poetry Journal – “Smooth Stones

Entropy – “Chain Reaction

Poetry Breakfast – “Night Drive”

Psaltery & Lyre – “Stigmata”

The New Verse News – “What I Tell You Three Times Is True”

the Aurorean, Fall/Winter 2017 – 2018 – “Winter Moths”

Chiron Review, Issue # 109, Fall 2017 – “Fire!” and “That Was Me”

Prole, Issue 23, August 2017 – “Cured”

The Way to My Heart: An Anthology of Food-Related Romance , edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson – “A, Your Name Is Anna”
Public Poetry Project
The Fox Poetry Box – “Found”

2016
Peacock Journal – “Phototaxis,” “Almost,” and “2000 Miles”

Poetry Breakfast – “Signature Dish”

Silver Birch Press – “Sweet Forgiveness

Poetry Breakfast – “Morning Constitutional”

The Fourth River – “Beach with No Name”

Silver Birch Press – “The Old Neighborhood”

Poetry Breakfast – “Another Hot One”

Poetry Breakfast – “Closing Time”

The Ekphrastic Review – “Weatherbeaten”

Tinderbox Poetry Journal – “The Events of 1989”

Yellow Chair Review – “I Read the News Today, Oh Boy”

The Ekphrastic Review – “The House with the Cracked Walls”

The Ekphrastic Review – “My Life with Matisse”

Rat’s Ass Review- “Romance, Rapture, Rupture”

Rat’s Ass Review – “Last Call Lullaby”

Chiron Review, Issue #105, Fall 2016 – “Mementos,” “Sobriety and Its Discontents,” “Blue Flashing Lights”

Off the Coast, Volume XXII, Number 4, Fall 2016 – “The Ambassadors”

Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems About Inanimate Objects, edited by Kelly Ann Jacobson – “Sweet Forgiveness”
Public Poetry Project
Pittsburgh Poetry Houses – “Message in a Bottle”

2015
Yellow Chair Review – “Got the Radio On” 

2008
Poetry East, Numbers 62 & 63, 2008 – “Bad Habit” and “Found”