My Conceptual Photo in an Exhibit: Nov. 25, 2020-Feb 23, 2021! 🎉📸

I received splendid news today: my conceptual photo was chosen as part of a photography magazine’s online art show, A Show of Hands!

Check out not just my photo, “I had the Radio on,” but also 49 other fabulous photos from shutterbugs all over the globe. An honor to have my work included in such talented company. Don’t Take Pictures gallery show.

The show will run from today through February 23, 2021.

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Photography Published in Molecule :)

Check out the latest amazing issue of Molecule, which features one of my black-and-white film photographs as well as excellent short poems, prose, and even a play. Here’s to issue #3!

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The bottle was a find in my dad’s workshop— it’s glass, with a wonderful heft, and the letters on the bottle are raised/embossed. I love the font and how the bottle’s inscription includes a place on it.

My Photos Published in Burgundy Balloon :)

Pleased to announce that I have some photos (including this one, called “Next Steps”) published today in Burgundy Balloon.

Check out all of the images and some stellar creative writing, too (and consider submitting your own work) at: https://burgundyballoon.org/ .

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Poetry in a Time of Pandemic

It’s my honor to have a poem published in the St. Charles Arts Council’s project, Poetry in a Time of Pandemic. My poem, “Quarantine III,” was just published. May these poems bring comfort, insight, and hope to us all as we wait out this terrible virus.

“Quarantine III”

I cracked open a window, to be touched

by chilled arms: shrill April winds better

than nothing. Sister says she’s started

having nightmares about social distancing.

She wandered through a hall, body shaking,

shaking a fist at duos in sweaters carelessly

entwined in chaste hugs. Last night, I dreamt

of an anniversary party in a giant ballroom.

I asked at every festooned food table for

pretzel rods. I was that specific; they weren’t

just pretzels. The punch was Hawaiian red but

all I could scoop into my cup was pale pink,

square ice pellets that tasted of run-off and

blankness. Not even water could quench

as it vanished.  I took more anyway.

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I'm Featured Author at Burningword Literary Journal :)

Super excited to announce that I’m Featured Author this month at Burningword Literary Journal.

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Poem Publication : "Lines Composed after Purchasing a 2020 Planner"

Thrilled to announce that my poem, “Lines Composed after Purchasing a 2020 Planner” was published in the current issue of Verse of Silence.

For my fellow poets and writers, the editors accept submissions at Verse of Silence Submissions.

Like this image I made? Prints available at Write Path Productions.

Like this image I made? Prints available at Write Path Productions.