Select Published Poetry includes:
“Executive Disorder,” Pen in Hand (2025) *Received a Pushcart nomination
“Control the Food, Control the War,” Poetry X Hunger (2025), to be included in the upcoming anthology “Turning Poetry into Food: A Collection of Poetry X Hunger Poems” (NatureCulture, 2026)
“Defining Whiteness,” 45 Magazine (June 2024) *Received a nomination for Best of the Net
“The Beaches of Normandie” *Received honorable mention in Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition (2024) and the HoCoPolitSo Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize (2024)
“The List,” Line of Advance *Finalist for the Colonel Darron L. Wright Award (2022) and read at the White House in 2024. To be included in the upcoming anthology “Our Best War Stories” (Middle West Press, 2025).
“Hoff Street II” was a finalist for the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize (2024)
“Cranberry Sauce,” Inlandia (Fall 2023)
“Wörter Verloren,” Pen in Hand (July 2023)
“Plateau” (in haiku), Blue Unicorn (2023)
“156 Stewart Street,” Plainsongs (Spring 2023)
“Pedestal,” Maryland Bards’ Poetry Review 2023 (2023)
“Democracy Blocced,” The Skinny Poetry Journal (January 2023)
“Capitol Offense,” Pen in Hand (January 2023)
“Dream Catcher,” Collateral (Fall 2022) *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Sightseer,” Yellow Arrow Journal (Fall 2022)
“No Room at the Inn,” Maryland Bards’ Poetry Review 2022 (2022); also appearing in Portraits of Life: An Ekphrastic Anthology (2022)**
“Stop the Injustice,” Portraits of Life: An Ekphrastic Anthology (2022)**
“The Sauerkraut Song,” featured in Bard Fest 2021 (2021)
“Suburban Lies,” published in Pen in Hand (2020-21)
**NOTE: The proceeds for Portraits of Life: An Ekphrastic Anthology (2022) go to Maryland Foodbank and the Poor People’s Campaign. It contains the beautiful artwork of Elaine Weiner-Reed and April M. Rimpo https://fallentreepress.com/product/portraits-of-life/