Mea Culpa

Thank you to Abigail A. Jones, Dr. William Anthony Nericcio, and the team at pacificREVIEW at San Diego State University for selecting “Mea Culpa” for their 2022 editon “Atlantis and other lost places.” The gorgeous cover art, below, is by Ann Calandrano. Available in print only.

Dorr Township Library Salad Pie

What a fun evening Thursday was! At Dorr Township library we talked about IMAGINATION (ding!) and how stories are made. We exercised our brains by brainstorming. We made up a story about Broccoli Cake in which there were many characters named Jacob. We laughed and we made our own version of Salad Pie that looked like this:

It looks pretty! And tasty? Here’s the recipe:

Thank you to Jeffrey Babbit for inviting me to Dorr, and to Lexi for her help at the event.

Ameliorate & Reverse Cancer

Two poems of mine are now up at About Place Journal in their May issue, Navigations: A Place for Peace. Thank you to Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and the team at About Place for selecting and presenting this work so beautifully.

Mother

The Shore has published “Mother,” a poem about childhood, home, and the farmer’s market in Kitchener, Ontario. Thank you to Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, and John A. Nieves for selecting this poem.

Elegy 451 Handmade Book

Look at this gorgeous handmade book! Last semester, my daughter Ava took a bookmaking class. For one of the books, she chose to use the text of “Elegy 451” published in TERSE in May 2021.

The cover features a candle and dark textured fabric:

Then open, and whoah! Those endpapers!

And then the text…

images courtesy of Ava BooydeGraaff

The Dollar is a General

Variety Pack, Issue 7, is up today, and “The Dollar is a General” is included on page 3. You can access it via issuu by clicking the cover below:

Thank you to Ben Brindise, Flash Fiction Editor, and to J. B. Stone, Editor-in-Chief, for including this tiny fiction in the lovely Variety Pack.

What to Read Next: A Mosaic of Literature Selections for All Ages

Up the Staircase Quarterly has published “What to Read Next: A Mosaic of Literature Selections for All Ages” which I hope draws connections between the adult literary work we know and love and the amazing contemporary children’s literature that is available today. Special thanks to April Michelle Bratten for accepting this review.

I really love a journal that combines literary work and art, and Up the Staircase not only has a featured artist, but a whole section featuring art and artists.

Rave

Landlocked has published “Rave” in their Issue 4.1, just released yesterday. Thank you L. Favicchia and the Landlocked team for including it.

The issue reads like a print journal via downloadable pdf, and there’s gorgeous art throughout. Scroll down for a sampling.

Art featured in Landlocked 4.1

Today

Thank you to Anna Potter for including my poem “Today” in the Amphibian.

Her editor’s note in this inaugural issue explains the theme and the name of the journal: “Part of this cultural 'amphibious-ness' is a sense of longing for a home, real or imagined. A place of comfort where we belong. That is the essence of Hiraeth the theme for this issue.”