58 Poems accepted and 1 chapbook awarded a Grand Prize in 2016

 My deepest gratitude to the editors of the 32 journals who accepted my poetry in 2016 and to GFT Press for awarding my chapbook Finite to Fail its Grand Prize for publication early in 2017. 

“Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson” 2016 GFT Press Chapbook Contest Grand Prize Winner

“A Last Bend in the Huron River” Red Earth Review July 2016
“Vessel” Red Earth Review July 2016

“Sugaring” Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

“Whittling Emptiness” Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

“Halloween” The Write Place at the Write Time

“Harrowing Hallows’ Evening” The Write Place at the Write Time

“Cutting Deeper” The Yellow Chair Review

“Blackberry Reduction-3” Three Line Poetry

“River and Father” Gravel

"The Darkening Horizon" Folia

“Becoming” GFT Press

“Song of the Sixth Extinction” GFT Press

“The Stone Bird in Exile” GFT Press

“After Bashō” Heron Tree

“Emily’s Ghost Machine” Route 7 Review
“Become a Dark Current” Touch: The Journal of Healing

“Becoming Stage Three” Touch: The Journal of Healing
“The Desert Rains” Heart & Mind Zine

“Crafting the Void” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review

 “Whitman Deconstructed” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review

“Wrestling Proteus on the Beach,” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review

“Winter Moon” Poetry Quarterly Spring 2016

“Paleontology” Rust + Moth

“Cloud Chamber” in Shabda Press Spring 2017 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands

“Alamogordo - July 16, 1945” in Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands

“Nuclear Winter” in Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands

“Tanka: In a streak of blue” Tanka Journal

“The Nostalgia of Frisbees”  Literature Today (Vol 5)

“Psalms in Pieces” december

“The carillon has voices” Three Line Poetry

“All Journeys are Metaphors” Dual Coast Magazine
“What is Still” Heron Tree

“Still Knowing” The Summerset Review
“Urbanity” Rust + Moth

“A Lark is Hunger in the Blood” Jazz Cigarette

“Pileated” Inwood Indiana Magazine

“Offertory” online GFT Press Ground Fresh Thursday series

“Murmuration” Aji Magazine Fall 2016
“Tradition” 50 Haikus

“Prayer of Vapor” Red Savina Review

“Dark Fathers” Arlington Literary Journal
“Defiled by Exile” Arlington Literary Journal
“The Exile is Orphaned” Arlington Literary Journal

“A last fragile cloud of summer” Three Line Poetry
“Formulary” Hurricane Review
“Absolute Zero”  “Ceremony without Tea” “The Orphaned Shore” “She the Garden” Vine Leaves Literary Journal #19

“Infinity of Nothing” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry

“Four Measure Rest” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry

“Ways of Seeing” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry

“Submission” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry

"Of Bone and Limestone" Aji Magazine Spring 2017

"Past All Aging" Aji Magazine Spring 2017

“All Journeys Are Metaphors” – Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print)

“Samuel Clemens’ Cat” – Into the Void: Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print)

“She Asks Me Inside” Dark Matter Journal