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New ‘Jess Poem’ in the Bellingham Review

My poem “The Art of Dying” appeared in the Spring 2018 edition of the Bellingham Review (Volume XLI, Issue 76). Although my friend and mentor Jess Spielholz died in 2009,…Read More »

We’Moon 2019

Again for next year I have work in the We’Moon Datebook. The 2019 theme is “Fanning the Flame” which correlates with card 19 of the Tarot’s Major Arcana which is…Read More »

Two Poems in Earth’s Daughters Journal

Two of my poems appeared in issue #91 of the literary journal Earth’s Daughters this summer. The theme was ‘lines.’ The poem “Esther’s Last Story,” as about my grandmother telling…Read More »

Three Acceptances in a Row!

After a run of rejections, I suddenly got three pieces of good news! My poem “The Oystermen” was a finalist for the Joan Swift Prize from Poetry Northwest and will…Read More »