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POEMS

Print Anthologies

Online Publications

"Thwakadoodle," "To Describe This Body I Must Invent," "X-Rays, MRI's, Bone Scan," "Dark Star,"There is No Time To Learn French," Cholla Needles 50

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"Scrambles Eggs," "Flight Plan," and "In My Fist the Bag I Carry," appear in Redshift 4.

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"Found Lyrics in Crumpled Form," "Bee Walking Confused Circles," "Don't Drink the Water," "Under Nana's Desk," and "Family Roadtrip," appear in Cholla Needles 53.

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"Secrets Among Frogs" alongside an interview appear in Alien Buddha Zine #32.

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"The Old Man's Boss Isn't the Boss's Old Man," appears in Alien Buddha Destroyed the Economy.

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"Speaking Ill," appears in Lummox 9.

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"Sometimes the Knives," appears in Spillway 28.

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"Peaches Three Ways,"Remythologizing," and "The Wish," appear in Redshift 2."

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"The Magician's Assistant," "Poem Without a Name," and "The Sabine Woman," appear in Making Up.

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"Midwest Summer Bluegrass," "Pebble and Tide," and "Dear Girls," appear in Short Poems Ain't Got Nobody to Love.

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"New Love," appears in Incandescent Mind: Selfish Issue.

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"Jacaranda Song," Appears in A Poem is a Poem,No Matter How Tall.

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"In Spanish," "For UnKnown," and "Watermarks," appear in Cadence Collective: Year Two Anthology.

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"Reminders for my future self," appears in The Language I was Broken In.

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"Hot Lips Salvia and Bougainvilla," "Watermarks," and "In Spanish," appear in Attack of the Poems.

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"Hauling Ghosts," appears in Then and Now: Conversations with Old Friends.

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"Body of Art," appears in Like a Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity.

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"Synthesis," appears in Storm Cycle 2015.

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"Family Heirlooms," Pairing Knives: Small Gestures," "February," "Imprint," "Besides the Bed of Roses," "Making Space: Small Pieces I Feed the Earth," and Occasionally Pink, or White," appear in Cholla Needles 44.

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"Stop Look Listen," appears in Lummox 5.

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"In the Wild," "Letter to Ansel," Street Talk Sassafras Jazz," "Our Tradition," "Forgetting the Flowers," "In the City Girl," "Aquarium Electric, "New Place," and "With and Without," appear in Cholla Needles 36.

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"My Name," is published in Hobo Camp Review.

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"Self-portrait- after an Epidural," "Overlapping Venn Diagrams," "Nothing But the Bells," "The River of Styx and Stones," and "The Noodle Eater," are published in Bold Monkey.

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"Of Poems and Folded Promises," "Experimental Fairytale," "Small Things," "Dust in Her Hair," "Clean Sock," and "Setting the Curve," are published in Eunoia Review.

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"Singularity of Being," are published in Random Sample Review.

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"If a Poem Was a Dress," "Round Things Make a Circle," "For the Love of What is Holy," "Music," "Just This--" and "Lullaby for my Love," are published in Ponder Savant.

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"Agoraphobia," "Lady Liberty Signs the Blues," "We Take Home Chunks of Time," "This Body," and "In My Nearly Nine Years of Applying for Disability," are published in Writing in a Woman's Voice.

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"Girl With Scoliosis Plays Soccer," and "(Mad)woman in the Attic/Invisible Stones," are published in Rise Up Review.

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"Kintsugi," and "Home," are first published in One Sentence Poems.

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"Hand-Me-Downs," "Love Doesn't Always Glimmer Like a Horse," "Sister," and "Sitting in the Coffeeshop," are published in Right Hand Pointing.

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"Poem Buried Under the Shed," is published in The New Verse News.

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"Scoliosis," and "Just Discovered," are published in petrichor.

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"Your Mouth is a Cutting Board-- Mine is a Knife," is published in Trailer Park Quarterly.

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"Shut the Front Door," and "Beauty Mask," are published by Silver Birch Press.

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"Yes! Long Beach is Singing," is published by Cadence Collective.

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Art by Danielle Mitchell

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