VIDEOS

My Youtube page with poetry readings. Check it out!

Reading from Once You’re Inside: here

Poets vs. Pandemic Reading from July 21st, live on Youtube. My reading begins at about 19:30. Be sure and listen to the fine work of Miles David Moore and Lucinda Marshall as well. Thanks to Henry Crawford for hosting and video production.

BOOKS

Once You’re Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration. Charing Cross Press. 2022. ISBN: 978-0-578-86768-7, 60 pages. Links for ordering available in October.

No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom. New Academia Publishing/Scarith Books. 2017.
ISBN978-0-9981477-0-3. paperback, 68 pages. Order from Amazon.com, or Barnes & Noble.com.

The Altar of Innocence. New Academia Publishing/Scarith Books. 2015. ISBN 978-0-9906939-5-6 paperback, 90 pages.  Order from Amazon.com, or Barnes&Noble.com.

Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown. K. Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla, editors. 2019. Penguin India. Poems included: “In Need of Imagination” and “The Importance of Flowers.

Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Laura Madeline Wiseman, editor. 2013.
Poem included: “Marital Privilege.”

Reckless Writing: The Modernization of Poetry by Emerging Writers of the 21st Century. Penny Dunning, editor. Chatter House Press. 2012.
Poems included: “Mrs. S” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and “More Rock Than Bach.”

Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems. Maryland Writers’ Association Book. Laura Shovan, editor. 2011 section editor for “Love of Art and Work.”
Poems included: “Marriage,” “Seducing Billy Collins as He Finishes a Stanza,” “The Pediatrician” and “Dreams in My Portfolio.”

POEMS

• Pendemics Journal, “The Broken Trophy”
• Hope Collected, “Freshman’s Lament”
• Iron City Magazine, “Surviving the Lake in the Basement,” “Lock Me Up,” and “Sandbags Against the Flood.”
• Lummox, “At the Altar of St. Stephen”
• Mad in America, “The Hopkins Doctor Diagnoses Me” and “A Therapeutic Environment” 
• Fourth River, “Dress Code for the Women’s Prison”
• Poets and Artists Event, “Come What May” and “Time At the Bus Stop”
• Dragonfly, “Grooming” and “Too Late”
• Every Day Poetry/Every Writer, “The Code”
• New Verse News, “$1 a Day to Fight the Largest Fire in CA History”
• Gargoyle, “Mental Health Box,” & “Branded.”
• Fledgling Rag, “Real for Real,” “Nathaniel Breaks It Down for You,” “Between Here and Hope.”
• New Verse News, “I Don’t Need Any More Facts,” “A Day in the Life of a Drone Pilot,” “Value-added Teachers”
• Skinny Poetry Journal, “Walking by the Schoolyard.”
• Texture, “Imaginarium.”
• Gyroscope Review, “Working Hard.”
• Panoplyzine, “Cocktails.”
• ArLiJo, “Barriers,” and “The Autoworker on the Radio Explains How the Factory Works.”
• Light Ekphrastic. “The Apple in His Eyes.”
• Mipoesias, “Rena”
• Pif Magazine, “Naptime in the Kindergarten Room”
• Scribble, “Nested,” “Second Chance Cafe,” and “The Portal.”
• Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. “Marital Privilege.”
• Reckless Writing Anthology: The Modernization of Poetry by Emerging Writers of the 21st Century. “More Rock Than Bach,” and “Mrs. S.”
• The Gunpowder Review, Autumn 2011: “Dreams in My Portfolio Redux” and “Postcards.”
• Praxilla Literary Journal: “Liam Sits Folded,” “Stubborn Guests,” “This is Just to Say Redux,” “Martini Memories,” and “Fierce Kisses.”
•  Little Patuxent Review: “Wine and Water” and “Adultery.”
• Life in Me Like Grass on Fire Anthology: “The Love of Work and Art,” “Dreams in My Portfolio,” “Seducing Billy Collins as He Finishes a Stanza,” “Marriage,” and “The Pediatrician.”

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND INTERVIEWS

• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Interview with Peter Bruun.” Print. Summer 2021.
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Interview with Grace Cavalieri.” Print. Winter 2021.
• Article: The Awakenings Review. “From Pollyanna to Polypharmacy: A Story of Overmedication and Recovery.” 2020.
• Article: Currere Exchange Journal. “Poetry as Inquiry: Using Poetry to Explore the Currere of Prison Experience”. Online. May 2020
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Interview with Kevin Shird.” Print. Summer 2020
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Interview with Ben Cricchi” Print, Winter 2020.
• Interview: “The Healing Power of Writing” with Liz Bobo from Howard Community College
• Essay: Mad in America. “Learning to Speak the Subtle Language of Pain.”
• Essay: Mad in America. “The Answers in the Attic: A Mother-Daughter Story of Overmedication and Recovery.”
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review Blog.“Interview with Ned Tillman: Author of The Big Melt.”
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review Blog. “Contributing Editor Ann Bracken Interviews Morna McDermott McNulty.” Web.
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Sitting Down for a Stoop Story: Interview with Laura Wexler and Jessica Myles Henkin.” Print.
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “What Builds Our Worlds: An Interview with Jason Reynolds.” Print.
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “An Interview with Paul Rucker.” Print
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “An Interview with Ann Bracken About No Barking in the Hallways.” Online
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “An Interview with Betty May.” Print
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review Blog, “An Interview with Linda Moghadam” and “Once You’re Inside.” Online
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “An Interview with Morna McDermott.” Print
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “An Interview with Grace Cavalieri.” Print
• Essay: Little Patuxent Review. “Crafting a Bridge to Healing.”Print
• Interview: Little Patuxent Review. “Interview with Nancy Naomi Carlson.” Print
• The Museletter, July 2008: “Warrior Writer: An Interview with Drew Cameron.” Print
• Essay: On Purpose Women Magazine, August/September 2008: “Full Ahead Slow: One of the Three Pillars of Hope.” Print
• Essay: On Purpose Women Magazine, February/March 2008: “The Three Pillars of Hope: Using Expressive Arts to Navigate Life’s Transitions.” Print
• Essay: Little Patuxent Review, Winter 2007: “Riding Into the Wind” Print
• Interview: The Museletter, November 2004: “Engagement With Life; An Interview with Michael Collier, Maryland’s Poet Laureate.” Print
• Interview: The Museletter, March 2004: “The Power of Art; An Interview with David Read Johnson'” Print
• Interview: The Museletter, March 2001: “Interview with Edward Hirsch.” Print