Selected Poems

Button Box, Finalist for the 2025 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award, Plough. Read the poem and listen to the recording made during the award ceremony.

Trail Markers, published by New Verse Review was nominated for a Best of the Net!

To the Young Woman in the Restroom at the Wedding, New Verse Review

Words My Mother Didn’t Know, Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize, Light

Forgetting a Name, I Search Through Old Emails, Laureate’s Choice Prize, Maria W. Foust Sonnet Contest

Argument of Periapsis, Finalist for the 2023 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award, Plough

The Other Mother, Light (A finalist for Best of the Net nomination!)

Four poems: Arroyo; Bernadette, on Playing Dolly on Broadway; Florida, But Inland; and Playing Along in Temple, Alabama Literary Review

X.J. Kennedy review in Light

Featured poet, Mezzo Cammin

The March of Time, Journal of General Internal Medicine

Essays

What Do You Say to a Grieving Friend? Plough

Today’s Poem: Our Little Ghost, Poems Ancient and Modern: An essay about Louisa May Alcott’s “light but strange household poem about a baby ghost.”

Reviews

“The Poet as Archeologist,” Review of Before the Forest Burns by Leslie Monsour, Modern Age Journal

Review of Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola, The Hopkins Review

“All of Time Is Cut in Two,” Review of And After All by Rhina Espaillat, The University Bookman, Russell Kirk Center

“Brave in Its Transformerness,” Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green, Claremont Review of Books

“Bright, Loose Change,” Review of Like by A.E. Stallings, Claremont Review of Books

"Another Yellow Entirely," Review of The Goat Songs by James Najarian, Claremont Review of Books

"Keep an Eye on Those Ray-Bans," Review of New Jersey Noir by William Baer, Claremont Review of Books

"Tar & Tallow, Turpentine & Twine," Review of The Frangible Hour by Catherine Chandler, Claremont Review of Books

"In Her Best Black Heels," Review of Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Claremont Review of Books

"Something Old, Something New," Review of Sleaze and Slander by A.M. Juster, Claremont Review of Books

Review of Back East by Michelle Leavitt, Per Contra

Interviews and Online Readings

August 28, 2025: Plough Quarterly Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award ceremony reading of “Button Box”

July 28, 2023: Interview with Shelby Traynor of The Science Show, ABC Radio National, on poetry, space, and Outer Space: 100 Poems

June 10, 2023: Interview with The Liuniverse: Talking with Dr. Charles Liu, Allen Liu, and Yun Wang, cosmologist and poet about the poetry of the stars!

May 24, 2023: Plough Quarterly Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award ceremony

February 16, 2023: Online reading of Outer Space: 100 Poems hosted by Carmine Street Metrics. Featuring Ned Balbo, John Curl, John Foy, Dr. Alice Gorman, A.M. Juster, Donna Kane, Janet Kenny, Leslie Monsour, Victoria Moul, Jay Ruzesky, Dr. Yun Wang, and Anton Yakovlev.

May 13, 2016: Audio interview on NHPR, The Bookshelf

Digital Projects

September, 2025: Website for Anna Reisman, doctor, writer, educator

Winter, 2025: Social media campaign for Sand and Water Creations, makers of handmade glasswork