When talented poet Saumya Choudhury of the Delhi Poetry Slam emailed me out of the blue from India and invited me to join her World Poetry Project online residency, I was overwhelmed and a tad nervous. I’m so glad I said YES!

I’ll be the guest poet at the Hub on Canal, 132 Canal Street, New Smyrna Beach. There will also be an open mic for a local poetry group. Please join us.

I’m delighted that “Hanging the Moon,” one of my favorite poems in my upcoming book, Tango, has been accepted for publication by Rosebud, one of the most gorgeous lit mags around. It's a family poem — and sad — so I probably won't ever be able to read it in person, but that's okay.

I’m grateful to Jamie Poissant, editor of The Florida Review, for publishing a newish poem of mine in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online: “Upon Googling an Old Boyfriend and Finding His Obituary.”

I can’t wait to share the news that my fifth poetry collection, Tango, has been accepted for publication by Kelsay Books!

I’m happy as a clam that my poem “I Fell in Love With an Octopus” was included in Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry.

I’m grateful to two literary magazines and an anthology for rolling out the welcome mat to four of my new poems in the last few weeks. 

I could not be more excited that my poems "Cocoa Beach" and "Sweet Sixteen" are included in a #MeToo anthology of poetry and prose -- Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing -- recently published by Beacon Press.

I’m pleased to share that I won an award last week in the Orange Audubon Society’s annual photo contest for this shot of a small burrowing owl.