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2026
Dreams made Real (in which The Women of Myth wins first place for the Elgin Award in the chapbook category)
Dreamworld (in which At the Cosmic Gallery wins second place in the Long Poem category for the SFPA Annual Contest)
Blossoming in the Apocalypse (in which I have a cozy apocalypse story published)
The March has arrived! (huffing that new chapbook smell)
Biophilia (I do love me some nature)
Tree Teachers (in which a tree offers hope)
A Lifetime of Dreams (in which I honor the legacy of David KM)
The Em-dash–a defense (in which I refuse to let AI change me)
Bird On Fire (Phoenix risen on 9/11)
The Sundered Houses (welcome to my world)
Boláe: a Board Game (in which my brother brings to life a game I invented as a plot device)
TINY POEMS (in which a man in a wheelchair safeguards worlds)
A Just Impression (in which I mourn the loss of David KM)
The March (new collection of fantasy poetry!)
Freebies! (in which you can read my work or listen to it right now with no paywall)
The three dwarves (tiny speculative poems, anthology edition)
What came in the mail (three books spill out of their brown paper wrapper)
Poems in Conversation (in which I may or may not cut Medusa’s hair)
two dawns (two poems out in Pen in Hand)
double, double (two poems out soon from The Literary Fantasy Mag, and two more coming from Katabatic Circus)
A book finds you! (podcasting about writing and constructing the Elgin-nominated The Women of Myth)
Nerd Fiction (because a PhD is a grueling experience…bonus: with aliens…or are they?)
Rock-Paper-Scissors (in which there are rocks, and with paper and scissors, you can make a microchap)
Trifecta (in which my work appears in Star*Line, the Dwarf Stars anthology, and the Rhysling anthology)
Sun and Moon (in which there is beauty, the moon, sun, twisting sunflowers…also science and anti-colonialism)
The Ark (because animals were not made for space travel)
Permafrost (the things of your nightmares sometimes actually exist…PS: sorry…PPS: the monster is anthrax)
set to light (light the beacons for Space & Time)
Welcome to Pride (I am proud of my raven poem in Lav Review)
My First Con (in which I go to the first spec convention in my life…yes of course in my hometown)
Ridged Wings (in which I am a finalist for the Rhysling Award for the first time in my spec poetry career)
Transmission (please do not kill moths)
Crafting Animals (How to tune-up your animal constructs: advice from a professional)
Size matters (in which I try to learn to be smaller)
Across the pond (in which my work appears in the inaugural issue of Stoat Poetry)
Just another day at the end of the world (SpecPoVerse hosts two apocalypse poems)
Elgin season (in which I marvel at the outstanding company of nominees this year)
Light in Lothlorien (five poems make a mini-collection)
My Tiger Half (in which I turn into a tiger…or in which a tiger turns into me…or in which a tiger gets cuddles in at dawn)
All Creatures Interstellar (latest drabbun in a series, aka Vets In Space!)
Fallen (creepy short fiction ekphrastic in anthology)
A Private Collection (poem from my series Ekphrastic Fantastic in Dreams & Nightmares)
fire weather (scifaiku in Scifaikuest about a world on fire)
Rare Air (two poems nominated for the Rhysling, wow)
Grow where you’re planted (in which my cats inhabit local lit mags)
the horse inside me (micro-chapbook from Origami Poems)
Measure of Immortality (in which I have a poem in ETTT’s ‘Immortality” edition)
Valentine (in which I share fan favorite “Mother Nature” and “A Lasso Around It” from my new chapbook for the SFPA seasonal reading)
Flight of the Synths (Elves In Space)
Last year (was pretty dark, so I wrote a lot of poetry)
One reading, and another (in which I read things — what you see sometimes is what you get)
dark things (in which I channel Leslie Marmon Silko)
about wings (in which I write yet another poem about wings)
Reunions (in which I celebrate my Philadelphia poetry circle from a former era of my life)
A Lassen Set (in which I am inspired by volcanos)
2025
Cliff Notes Version (Recap of 2025)
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