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Poetry

My poems are rooted in attention, memory, and the quiet details of daily life. Many begin in the same place as my other work, through making, observation, and the slow shaping of language over time. Writing poetry allows me to explore what cannot always be said directly, working through image, rhythm, and line.

These poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and publications across the country, including The Rappahannock Review, Psaltery and Lyre, Ruminate, and The Windhover. They often return to themes of the body, motherhood, place, and transformation, shaped by both lived experience and careful craft.

This page gathers a selection of published poems and ongoing work. Together, they reflect a long-term writing practice grounded in revision, attention, and a commitment to language as a way of understanding.

Forthcoming

“Name an Asteroid” — Your Impossible Voice 

“A Dancer a Builder and a Saint Walk into a Bar” — Your Impossible Voice

2019

“Flat” — Rust & Moth 

“Sardinia” — The Rappahannock Review 

“Subject Matter” — The Rappahannock Review 

“Poem for My Husband” — Foundry 

“Mary Had a Mother” — The Windhover

2018

“Horses” — Psaltery and Lyre 

“Offering” — Driftwood Press 

“Gold” — A-Minor Magazine 

“Glacier Climbing” — American Poetry Journal 

“Nativity” — Psaltery and Lyre 

“Mary Listens” — Psaltery and Lyre

2017

“Ownership” — Heartwood (Finalist for Heartwood Broadside Competition)

“Non-Native” — South Florida Poetry Journal 

“Their Mouths, Their Throats” — South Florida Poetry Journal 

“Fiddler Crab” — Whale Road Review 

“Mary Remembers” — Ruminate 

“Elizabeth Asks” — Ruminate (Winner of the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize) (Pushcart Prize Nomination) (Orison Anthology Nomination)

“There Will Be No Thunderstorms Tomorrow” — SWWIM Also available at Every Day Poems 

“A Body Made of Bees” — Psaltery and Lyre (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

“Elizabeth’s Request” — cahoodaloodaling (Distance Issue)

“Minnow” — Milk Teeth Anthology: Hermeneutic Chaos 

“To Stone” — Milk Teeth Anthology: Hermeneutic Chaos

2016

“Honeysuckle” — The Rappahannock Review 

“Carolina Wrens” — Tinderbox Poetry Journal (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

“Reservoir” — The Hopper 

“Dusk, St Simon’s Island” — The Hopper 

“Buzzards Bay” — Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series (ELJ) 

“Oophorectomy” — Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series (ELJ) 

“After Reading ‘Jellyfish’ by George David Clark” — Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series (ELJ) 

“Larches” — Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series (ELJ) 

“The Body, After” — Wild Horses: The Women on Fire Series (ELJ) (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

“Persephone” — The Fem 

“Postpartum” — The Fem 

“Egret” — All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood 

“When I Became a Mother” — Menacing Hedge 

“The Fisherman’s Wife” — Menacing Hedge 

“Returning” — Menacing Hedge 

“Annunciation” — Menacing Hedge 

“Break My Hands” — Gravel 

“November” — San Pedro River Review

2015

“Ode to a Fat Girl” — This Body I Live In: Slim Volume III 

“Arkansas Black” — Flycatcher 

“Folly Island” — Flycatcher 

“When I Left for You” — Cider Press Review 

“Clean” — Rogue Agent 

“The Moon Rots and Splits” — Blast Furnace 

“Bury the Lede” — Still: The Journal (Best of the Net Nomination)

“Reprieve” — Heron Tree 

“Matins for the Poet, Joshua Poteat” — Heron Tree

2014

“Arrival” — Dressing Room Poetry Journal 

“The Definition of Stanza” — Hoot (Including audio)

“A Photograph of My Brother, Five Years Old, Jumping into the Pool” — The Rappahannock Review 

“Mining” and “Vast” — Right Hand Pointing 

“August Incarnate” — Tar River Poetry (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

“Request” — Slipstream “Pavement” — Amethyst Arsenic

2013

“Love Letter” — Foothill (Audio and digital edition) “Topography” — Switchback (Pushcart Prize Nomination) “For Carly” — Town Creek Poetry

2012

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Thinking
Through Craft.

My practice unfolds through writing, making, and teaching, each grounded in craft and careful attention to process. Through writing, I reflect on the role of handwork, creativity, and skill in daily life. Through making, I work with materials as a way of thinking, learning, and problem solving. Through teaching, I share techniques, experience, and ways of working that support thoughtful, sustainable creative practice.