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A nice little spread on GWARLINGO!
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I will be reading on April 17th!
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Check out an article from HuffPost UK that talks about:
Five American Poets to Watch in 2013
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Palisadian Post article about my students featured in the CPITS State Antho!
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The Soul Pancake blog is featured on the Harriet blog of Poetry Foundation!
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Featured blogger on Rainn Wilson & Holiday Reinhorn's SOUL PANCAKE!
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Spotlight article on my work in the alumni news my MFA alma mater.
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A finalist in the Tupelo Press Winter 2012 Poetry Project.
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Click Here for my KPFK Interview & Reading with host, Paul Lieber
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Now there is a Kirkus Interview as well as a review!
Here is the Kirkus review of Notes to the Beloved!
"...proves herself a sister poet to Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds & Sheryl St. Germain."
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Notes to the Beloved is now available on Amazon.com - just click here!
New poem-film "Boys Like You" debuts on Cheek Teeth/Trachodon
My petit blog essay "The Muse and The Making of Poem-films" appears here on Cheek Teeth/Trachodon
"Permeable, Smitten" a sonnet, won the Beyond Baroque Foundation Award
My book "Notes to the Beloved" has won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award!
My Ten Minute Play "Easter" to be performed 9/20/2011 at Tuesdays@Nine, West Hollywood: Naked Angels
Poems Forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, diode, Anti--, and Chaparral
L.A. Weekly feature poem: "After Four Days of Hammering Rain"
Verse Daily Web Feature, June 2011
Portions of my full-length play "Trees" to be featured in upcoming Tuesdays@Nine reading series, Los Angeles
My poem "Black Guitar" on Linebreak with audio
Interview with Keith Montesano about my first book, Good Friday Kiss
Cool interview with me and online magazine, Poemeleon
Spotlighted California Poet in the Schools Teacher!
Maggie Siff of AMC's show MAD MEN read my poem "Halloween" at Word/Theatre's Autism Speaks Benefit held at Creative Artists Agency in November, 2010.
Nominated for a 2010 "Best of the Net"
for "In the Gardens of Esalen" published in Poemeleon
Mammary on Rattle with audio!
A finalist for the Poets & Writers Magazine California Writers Exchange Contest 2009/2010
Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize
The poem "Faulkner Farms" forthcoming in River Styx
Nominated Best of the Net by diode for Persimmon
Finalist for the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize
Poems forthcoming in Poemeleon, Prairie Schooner, Spillway 2
Featured poet in PoetryMagazine.com ~ Fall 2009
Download Rattle's 'First Book Interview' of Good Friday Kiss
Hear praise poem for Patti Smith in The Cortland Review
Read and Listen to Mother's Day Omen on Linebreak
Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize
Featured in the current issue of Pirenes Fountain
Radio Interview on The Moe Green Poetry Hour with Dorianne Laux.
The Cafe Review of Blue Laws is here.
Featured Poet on Verse Daily - October 10, 2008
Featured Poet in Perigree Magazine, Issue 21, Summer 2008
Three Aberfan series sonnets published in Narrative Magazine.
Two sonnets from the Aberfan series chosen as semi-finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize, 2008.
Nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize.
Selected poems to appear in upcoming 2008 / 2009 publications:
Prairie Schooner (2 poems)
Crab Creek Review
Siren
Mudfish (poetry prize finalist)
Narrative Magazine
Many Mountains Moving
Pebble Lake Review
Nimrod
The Pedestal Magazine
Long Island Quarterly
Named "Poet of Distinction" by the Florence Poets Society for the poem "Newman's Own" to be published in Silkworm, 2007.
