Poetry
The first poem I ever wrote, back when I was a smartass thirteen-year-old, received an “F”. My father intervened, and my grade was changed to “complete”.
Here is that poem:
free verse
that means I don’t have to write it
or title it
I won’t
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I have continued to experiment with capitalization, punctuation, white space, symbols, the sound and the sense, constraints, traditional forms on occasion, and different justifications. Note that here I mean right, left, center – I don’t think any one of us needs to justify writing poems.
Title | Publisher | Date | Awards |
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Big thwack hypothesis | The RavensPerch | January 2024 | |
If you know a young woman | The RavensPerch | January 2024 | |
The water is forever washing the land clean of our footsteps | The RavensPerch | January 2024 | |
Witch’s broom | The RavensPerch | January 2024 | |
Blue October | unmissed blog | December 2022 | |
The Love Lives of Rocks | Iowa City Poetry in Public Project | Summer 2021 | |
Bing | Iowa City Poetry in Public Project | Summer 2007 | |
At the Office of My Son’s Psychiatrist | A Chaos of Angels, Word Walker Press | 2006 | |
Lists | Journal of Patchwork Farm Retreat | 2006 | |
Try It On | Iowa City Poetry in Public Project | 2006 | |
Spaghetti Soup | Main Channel Voices | Winter 2005 | |
At the Wall | Poetica, Reflections of Jewish Thoughts | 2005 | |
Summer Fruit | Iowa City Poetry in Public Project | 2004 | |
Path Three – Walking | Desert Voices | December 2004 | |
Rise | Poetry Motel | 2004 | |
Prison Camp | We Used to Be Wives, Fithian Press | 2002 | |
Moon Walk | Howlings, Our Journey | 1997 | |
No Tears | Howlings | 1997 | |
Spinning Steel | Muse, Mile High Poetry Society | 1997 | |
Vacation | Howlings | 1997 | |
Shadow Boxing | Howlings | 1995 | |
Album | Howlings | 1995 | |
Widow | The Front Range Round-Up | 1995 | Second Prize Winter |
Assimilation | Lighthouse Inkwell | 1995 | Second Place, Lakewood Council for the Arts Poetry Contest |
Closer to the Goddess | Anderie Poetry Press | 1995 | |
Blood Line | A Far Off Place National Library of Poetry | 1994 | Third Place Winner |