Panelist for Writing While Caregiving: Challenges & Strategies, Thursday, 6 November, free virtual Zoom event sponsored by Millay House Rockland, 6:30-8p Eastern; register here.

Included in Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses, 2026, out now:
“Late Spring Epiphany
After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit”
–originally published at The Adroit Journal

Selected for Best New Poets 2025

Selected for third prize in the Red Wheelbarrow Prize by Stephen Kuusisto who said, “‘Once Opened’ is a poem about consciousness with a touch of William Blake in the best way—this is sweet, urgent, dark, and wholly original.” 

Reading with Mark Doty and Diane Seuss at Poets Corner Maine, recording available here

Winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Poetry Contest for “Ways to Wear It” selected by Ted Kooser, out now in NOR 36, and this poem has just been nominated by NOR for a Pushcart Prize LI.