POETRY:
2025 - Poetry translation chapbook forthcoming in Mid-American Review. - "Vanitas," forthcoming from Lake Effect: An International Poetry Journal. 2024 - "Hydrangeas" and "How Many Birds," Sheila-Na-Gig online, Volume 9.1, Fall 2024. - "Ode to Understanding," Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, August 7, 2024. - "Bear," Poetry Breakfast, July 25, 2024. - "Redbuds," Poetry Breakfast, July 10, 2024. - Three poems anthologized in Of Our Own Accord: Women's Embodied Poetry, Flying Ketchup Press. July 2024. - "Making It Easier," Quartet Journal, Winter 2024, Volume 4 Issue 1. 2023 - "All the Ways We Witness," Open Earth III. OPA Press (2023). - "Snow Trillium," The Half-Life of Echoes: Poems about the Power and Fragility of Memories. Tiny Wren Lit (2023). - Three translated poems, with Juan Rojas. ¿Por qué temer a mis palabras?/ Why do you fear my words?, Parado en la punta de la luna creciente,/Standing at the tip of the crescent moon,, and Esta mañana, segun navego por el rio/ This morning as I navigate the river, Taos Journal of Poetry, Issue #13, November 2, 2023. - "Invitation: House Sparrow," 2024 Women Artists Datebook, Syracuse Cultural Workers, available Fall 2023. - "The Mechanics of Flight," winner of the 2023 Slippery Elm Poetry Award, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Fall 2023. - "What Grows from a Heart Stopped Cold," Amy Lowell Prize Winner, "What I Watch the Sea Tell the Seashore," E.E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, and “Pear” by Duan Qingqing, translated from the Chinese, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize Honorable Mention, all forthcoming in the New England Poetry Club online anthology and virtual reading, Fall, 2023. - "Vessel," Gyroscope Review's Fall 2023 Crone Power Issue. - "Sleep," Braided Way Magazine, July 17, 2023. - "How to Trust the Moon (Chicken)" (Nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes!) and "Turtle," in Sheila-Na-Gig Online. Volume 7.4, Summer 2023. - "Honey Locust Remembers Its Roots" and "The Solace of Trying: Bush Honeysuckle," Songs for Wild Ohio, 2023 Edith Chase Poetry Reading Anthology, in association with Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University. - "This Place, Too, a Loss," Volume 27/Spring 2023 issue of Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal. - "Spring," ONE ART: a journal of poetry. April 7, 2023. - "Contrition: Birds-of-Paradise," SWWIM Everyday, March 27, 2023. 2022 - "What's Left," Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Fall 2022. - "Vigilance," ONE GOOD MEMORY series, Silver Birch Press, October 21, 2022. - "Splendor," One Art: A Journal of Poetry, August 27, 2022.. - Everglades (Burmese Python), Dissident Voice : A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice, July 24, 2022 - "Rain of Animals," SWWIM Every Day, May 27, 2022. - "Justice," “Mute,” "Green Heron," "Green Heron," "Turkey Vulture: Committee, Kettle, Wake," "Ubiquity: Sparrow," "Celestial Navigation: Indigo Bunting," "Ars Poetica: Wild Geese," Birds of the Cuyahoga: 2022 Edith Chase Poetry Reading Anthology, in association with Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University. - “Just as the Birds, Distracted,” New Verse News, May 19, 2022. - Book trailer for 2022 Ohioana Book Festival. - "Dreaming the Shadow Self" included on Season 4, Episode 9 of The Blue Door to the Cosmos podcast, "Poetry on the Theme of Shadows (the Shadow Self). April 11, 2022. - "Winter," Braided Way Magazine. February 4, 2022. 2021 - "Ars Poetica: Wild Geese," "On Watching a Time-Lapse Video of the Ice Sheet Covering Lake Michigan Split in Two and Drift Apart," and "Weight," Editor's Choice Award, Sheila-Na-Gig Online., Vol. 6.2, Winter 2021. - "Atonement," HOW TO HEAL THE EARTH Series, Silver Birch Press. November 10, 2021. - "Undone," (Nominated for Best of the Net!), Braided Way Magazine, September 17, 2021. - "Why Seagull Tries to Eat the Whale When Whale Comes Up to Breathe," Crab Creek Review, Fall 2021. Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Crab Creek Poetry Award. - "Uncanny," Slippery Elm Literary Journal 2021. Finalist for the 2021 Slippery Elm Poetry Award. - "Global Vaccine Poem: The Space Between Us," The Poetry of the Vaccine, WKSU 89.7, Public Radio News for Northeast Ohio, May 28, 2021. - "Present Continuous, Meaning Past, Implying Future," I AM STILL WAITING Series, Silver Birch Press, May 12, 2021. - “How to See the World: Hunger,” HOW TO Series, Silver Birch Press, March 17, 2021. 2020 "most days" and "first freeze," Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, 2020 Winter Edition. - "most days," shared on Series 3, Episode 24 of the Haiku Pea Podcast. December 21, 2020. - "What Our Chivalrous Bones Desire," The Ekphrastic Review's Ekphrastic Prompt Challenge. January 15, 2020. "Off Course" and "Justice," Eclipsing the Dark: The Sun & Moon Poetry Festival Anthology, Ohio Poetry Association. Summer, 2020. - "Beast," Eunoia Review, June 18, 2020. - "Flying," Eunoia Review, June 18, 2020. - "The Breath You're Holding (Easter Prayer)" was included in a video produced by Healing Broken Circles for the Marion Correctional Institution. - "Opossum: Diversion, Strategy," shared on Episode #125, Open Mic of the Air #4 by Poetry Spoken Here, May 1, 2020. - "Beloved: Ghazal for Our Time," shared in Coshocton Public Library System's Facebook page series "Pandemic Spring: Poems to Get Us Through," April 10, 2020. 2019 - "What They Imply By Depicting a Vulture," winner of the 2019 Heartwood Broadside Series, was made into a letterpress broadside designed by Base Camp Printing and included as "artifact companion" to Issue 8 (Fall 2019) of Heartwood Literary Magazine. - "Berkshire Mountains, September 2016," winner of NFSPS Board Award, and "Siege," second place in the Nevada Poetry Society Award, both published in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' Encore: Prize Poems 2019. July 2019, - "European Goldfinch: An Ekphrastic," "Mammals: Simurgh, Whale," "Kleptoparasitism: Brahminy Kite," and "Celestial Navigation: Indigo Bunting." included in Blackberry Peach Poetry Prize Anthology, National Federation of State Poetry Societies. June 2018. - "Blood Feather." Poets to Come: Whitman's 200th Birthday Anthology. May 2019. - "My Head Is an Egg." Haikuniverse, April 17, 2019. - "Ubiquity: Sparrow." Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Spring, 2019. 2018 - "Breathing In This World," Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge, July 30, 2018. 2017 - "Lessons in the Drinking of Nectar: Hummingbird." Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Anthology. December 2017. - "What the Letter S Said to the Punctuation Mark," and "What the Working Man Tells His Son (What He, Himself, Believes)," A Rustling and Waking Within: Poems Inspired by the Arts in Ohio. Ohio Poetry Association. 2016 - "Flying Kites with Amish Children." Radar Poetry, Issue 9. Includes audio link, available here. 2015 - “Embouchure,” Again I Wait for This to Pull Apart, a music-themed anthology by FreezeRay Press. - “Life Events, 1964,” Blue Max Review, August 2015. (Short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Prize.) - “Origami Dove: Postcard Contemplations from a Flight to Arizona,” Your Impossible Voice, Summer 2015. Audio link available here. - "Indoctrination, 1972," Me, as a Child Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, May 2015. 2014 - “Waiting for Want to Return,” I Am Waiting Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, December 7, 2014. – “On Handling Grief: Karl Wallenda,” published in Slippery Elm Literary Journal, December 2014. - “Dreaming the Shadow Self,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 20, 2014. - “Hades Rising from a Cleft in the Earth,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 17, 2014. - “What Was the Wolf but a Woman, or When Eating Sustains More than a Life,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 8, 2014. - “The Roach’s Response,” published in the Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, Silver Birch Press. October 2014. - “The Roach’s Response,” published in Bukowski on Wry, March 11, 2014. - “What It Takes to Be Born,” published in Common Threads: The Annual Journal of Work by Members of the Ohio Poetry Association, 2014. 2013 - “Gape: Fledglings,” broadside (included in the Portfolio of the Fall 2013 Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers), The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, November 2013. - “Anatomy of Birds, Part 1: Furcula,” published in Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai, a Future Cycle Press “Good Works” anthology, October 9, 2013. - “Huff Post Science News Headline, or When You Wish Something More Had Been Lost,” published in The Blue Max Review, August, 2013 (Short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Prize). - “Anxiety 1″ published in The 2013 Ohio Poetry Association Anthology Everything Stops and Listens, April 22, 2013. - “The Night Sky,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 22, 2013. - “There’s Only So Much a Poem Can Hold,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 15, 2013. - “The Hypochondriac’s Question to the Woman with Synesthesia,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 8, 2013. - “The Burden of Too Much Meaning,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 1, 2013. 2011 - “End Time” and “What Do You Call a Broken Boomerang?” published in Radius: From the Center to the Edge, May 14, 2011. - “Embouchure,” published in the premiere issue of Muzzle Magazine. 2009 - Chapbook, The Guilt That Gathers, Pudding House Publications. - Podcast, “Speaking of Poetry” on talktainment radio: http://www.talktainmentradio.com/play_window.php?audio&audioId=4663357. 2007 - “Baptism,” published in Fall 2007 issue of Heartlands Today. 2006 - “Bees,” Slab magazine, Issue 1. Awarded Second Place in the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Contest. - “the tornado,” Honorable Mention in the Akron Art Museum “New Words” Poetry Contest. - “Fireflies,” Winner, RTA Bus Card Project, sponsored by Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland. Published and displayed on over 700 busses on the Cleveland public transportation system. 2000 - “Confessional”; POMPA 2000. 1999 - “Quilt Blocks” and “Watching You Bail Hay”; Volume IX of The Heartlands Today: Midwest Characters and Voices. 1995 - “The Model T,” “Echoes Underground,” and “Graceland”; Spring/Summer issue of Zone 3. “The Model T” awarded second place in Rainmaker Awards for the best poem submitted to Zone 3 in 1995. - “Fireflies”; Summer issue of Spider. |
PROSE:
2022 - "The Persistent Metaphor of Birds," Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, April 27, 2022. 2021 - "Eating the Body, Consuming the Self." Fatal Flaw: (un)confined, March 2016. 2020 - "Pox/Pax: Dispatch from the Post-Election Suburbs." Medium, December 25, 2020. - "Jump." Medium, October 20, 2020. - "Keeping Vigil, Being Brave: How the Barnard College Corpse Flower Kept Me Going through the Police Riots following George Floyd's Murder." Medium, June 4, 2020. - "I'm in Stasis." How We Are. May 22, 2020. - "Standing at the Highest Point," Braided Way Magazine: Faces and Voices of Spiritual Practice. May 4, 2020. 2016 - Short Story, "The Weight of Things, Large and Small," Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts. Spring 2016. - Essay, "I Am the Canary," Slippery Elm Literary Journal, online edition. http://slipperyelm.findlay.edu/online-edition-i-am-the-canary/. March, 2016. 2013 - Essay, “Journey into Poetry: Paula J. Lambert,” for Tweetspeak Poetry, 20 February 2013. http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2013/02/20/journey-into-poetry-paula-j-lambert/ 2008 - Essay, “Eighteen and Forty,” published in Fall 2007 issue of Writing on the Edge and nominated for Donald Murray Prize. 2006 - Feature Article, “Words on Wheels,” published in July 2006 issue of Cleveland Magazine, City Life Section. - Book Review, “Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk”; Volume XLIX, No. 4 of Ohioana Quarterly. - Book Review, “The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage by Joe Mackall”; Volume XLIX No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly. 2005 - Book Review, “fall by Amy Newman”; Volume XLVIII, No. 1 of Ohioana Quarterly. 2004 - Short Story, “Christmas”; http://sfwp.org/archives/127. - Book Review, “Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand by Dennis Blankemeyer”; Volume XLVII, No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly. - Book Review, “Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, edited by Jennifer L. Howe”; Volume XLVII, No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly. 2003 - “Salvation”; Volume 7 of Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts. - Essay, “Remember the Dark”; Volume 2, No. 2 of The Awakenings Review. - Book Review, “The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris”; Volume XLVI, No. 1 of Ohioana Quarterly. 2002 - Short Story, “When Phyllis Couldn’t Sleep”; Volume 25, Issue 58 of Hawaii Review, 2002. - Book Review, “All Shook Up: Collected Poems about Elvis”; Volume XLV, No. 3 of Ohioana Quarterly. 2001 - Short Story, “The Healing”; Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (POMPA). 2000 - Short Story, “Of Being Closely Tied to Another, by Affection or by Faith”; POMPA. 1999 - Short Story, “The Twenty-Dollar Tip”; POMPA. 1998 - Short Story, “Blind”; Volume 24, Number 28 of other voices. - Short Story, “The Twenty-Dollar Tip”; February issue of Crab Creek Review. 1997 - Short Story, “Neal Hornsby”; Volume 31, Issue 3 of Wisconsin Review. 1995 - Short Story, “With All Respect to Harry”; Volume 24, Number 2 issue of Phoebe. Awarded “Best Short Story Submitted to Phoebe in 1995.” |