Poems Online
“Finding Love at 66” (South Florida Poetry Journal)
“Upon Googling an Old Boyfriend and Finding His Obituary" (Aquifer: The Florida Review Online)
"Ordinary Hours" (Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY)
Great Egret (1st-place winner, City of Orlando Words and Wonders Poetry Contest, along with my photo)
"The Great Tit" and "Early in the Pandemic" (Green Hills Literary Lantern)
"Two Mothers Stranded in the World" (The Gloria Sirens blog)
"If I Dare" (Slipstream; scroll down the page)
“A Frightful Case of New Year’s Nerves,” The Gloria Sirens blog
"Night" and "Old Story" (Minnetonka Review)
"For This Life, We'll Be Serving Meat Loaf and Mashed Potatoes," "Beauty Lessons at 12" and "At the It'll Do Motel" (Slipstream)
"Poison" (Rattle)
"My Face at 46" (Rattle)
"Rwandan Mother, 1994" (Writecorner Press; scroll down the page)
Reading
Interview
Featured poet in March 2025 at Hub on Canal in New Smyrna Beach.
My poems "Cocoa Beach," a pantoum, and "Sweet Sixteen" were included in this Beacon Press anthology in 2020.
With actor Lucy Carney, who performed my poem "Infusion Fridays" in The Pink Ribbon Project. Here, in 2011, I was just starting to get my hair back after chemo.
Here is a photo I took in my neighborhood that became the cover of "Hold Still."
This cancer anthology, which included my poem "Infusion Fridays," won the Midwest Book Award in 2014.
My book launch for "Beauty Lessons" at the Scott Laurent Gallery in Winter Park, Florida, in early 2011. I was so ill I had to read sitting down.
A collaboration with painter Pamela Ramey Tatum in 2014.
Happy as a clam to have my poem "I Fell in Love With an Octopus" included in this cephalopod anthology in 2024.
My book launch for "Beauty Lessons" was also held at the Scott Laurent Gallery in 2011. What a great venue!
My book launch for "Hold Still" was held at the beautiful Maitland Art Center in 2014.
My poem "Hurricane Season" won the Orlando History Center's Accidental Historian Poetry Contest in 2019.
My "Flame" launch party was also held at the Scott Laurent gallery in Winter Park, in Feb. 2012.