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Books Top of Page

Eden in the Rearview Mirror, poems (Word Press, 2007)

Light Made from Nothing, chapbook (Parallel Press, 2003)

Anthologies Top of Page

Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (The Backwaters Press, ed. John Bradley, forthcoming)

Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008)

Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press, eds. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler, 2008)

On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2007)

Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets (Parallel Press, 2006)

2003 Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology (Universities West Press, 2005)

Family Matters: Poems of Our Families (Bottom Dog Press, 2005)

Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by women who were girls when their mothers died (Syren Book Company, 2005)

A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry (CALYX Books, 2002)

Broadsides and Other Innovations Top of Page

"Where Good Swimmers Drown", winner of the 7th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Competition (Oneiros Press, forthcoming 2009)

"Not Quite Love", reprinted on postcards in the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf project titled No Direct Route Home (Woodrow Hall Editions, 2007)

"Inside a Dream of Peace" The Making of Peace: A Broadside Series (April 2006)

Journal Publications Top of Page

"Where Good Swimmers Drown," "How to Fall in Love," "Poem Without Us as We," "Lunar," and "The End of Love," diode, electropositive poetry (online) (forthcoming August 2008)

"Five Summer Nights," MARGIE (forthcoming, Fall 2008)

"The Unknown Child," reprinted in Sea Stories, an international journal of art and writing (online) (Vernal 2008)

"Childhood," "13," "New Year's Eve, 1965," Saturday Night Bath and Her Longing for Stars," and "Virgo," LOCUSPOINT, the place of poetry (online), Madison issue, May 2008

"This Map of Skin" and "My Mother Isn't Dead," reprinted in Wisconsin People & Ideas (Winter 2008, Vol. 54, Number 1)

"Carrying This Life the Way Sky Carries Weather," North American Review (November/December 2007)

"Some Music," North American Review (March/April 2007)

"Her winter House, Again," reprinted in Wisconsin Poets Calendar 2008

"The Body's Mercator" and "Laudamus," After Hours, A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art (Summer 2007, Issue #15)

"Deciding," 88, A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry (Vol. 6, December, 2006)

"Eden in the Rearview Mirror" and "With a Leaf in Her Fist," Blackbird (Vol. 5, November, 2006)

"Chicago Union Stockyards Circa 1957," MARGIE (Vol. 5, Winter 2006)

"Petition in the Middle," "Sitting with Autumn," and "First Love: An Erasure," Blue Fifth Review (online) (Summer, October 2006)

"Lucky" and "Not Quite Love," Salt Hill (Winter 2006)

"Her Winter House, Again" and "Girls Loitering in Shades of Gray," After Hours (Winter, 2006)

"Perseveration," MARGIE (Vol. 4, Winter 2005)

"My Father in His Eighties," Wisconsin Academy Review (Fall, 2005)

"Hunger Moon," 2006 Wisconsin Poets Calendar

"The Unknown Child," Ascent (Fall 2005)

"Cowboys," North American Review (Vol. 290, No. 2, March-April 2005)

"Waiting for the Green" and "T'ai Chi," Blue Fifth Review (online) (Summer, 2005) [Scroll down]

"Drought, 1937," CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer 2005)

"We Can't See Them Anymore," The Comstock Review (Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2004)

"At My Mother's Bedside," North American Review (September-October, 2004)

"Scheherazade," North American Review (May-August, 2004)

"Inner Harbor," Smartish Pace 5th Anniversary Issue (June, 2004, #10)

"To Be a River," Wisconsin Trails Magazine (March/April, 2004)

"Apparition," Puerto del Sol (Spring 2004)

"Moving Toward Fifty" and "Before Desire," Nimrod International Journal (Spring 2004)

"Inside a Dream of Peace," Poets Against the War (November, 2003)

"Inside a Dream of Peace," Epidemic Peace Imagery, a traveling exhibit of artists and writers, ongoing, numerous venues (June, 2003 - Present)

"The Summers, Like Tomatoes," reprinted in Cup of Poems, No. 6, (2003)

"The Summers, Like Tomatoes," Atlanta Review (Winter, 2003)

"My Angel" and "On the Kenai Peninsula, 2 a.m.," CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 2003)

"Silver Boat," "If I Loved You It Would Be This Way," and "They Take Him from Me," Passages North (Spring, 2003)

"Fish Fry at Harry's Tap," Crab Orchard Review (Spring, 2003)

"Duluth," Smartish Pace (April 2003, #8)

"It Happens in This Latitude," The Laurel Review (Spring, 2003)

"Dog Days," CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter, 2002-2003)

"White-Radish Moon," Hummingbird (Fall, 2002)

"Oconto County Fair," North American Review (March, 2002)

"Miracles Enough," Ascent (Spring, 2002)

"Practicing Eternity," CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 2001/2002)

"Reeling in a Skate on Kachemak Bay, Alaska," Rattle (Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 16, December, 2001)

"Garden," Permafrost (Vol. 23, June, 2001)

"The Seamstress at Nineteen," Southern Poetry Review (Vol. XL, No. 2, Winter, 2000)

Book Reviews Top of Page

Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos by Robin Chapman and Julien Sprott, Free Verse (April, 2006)

The Blue Dress by Alison Townsend, CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Vol. 22, No. 2, February, 2005)

Awards/Grants Top of Page

  • Third Prize, 14th Annual Juried Reading, The Poetry Center of Chicago, judged by E. Ethelbert Miller, 2008
  • Honorable Mention, 2007 Posner Poetry Book Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, for Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press)
  • Winner, 7th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Contest, 2007
  • Winner, 2006 Lorine Niedecker Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers
  • Runner-Up, 6th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Contest, 2006
  • Finalist, 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review
  • Finalist and Semi-finalist, 5th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Contest, 2005
  • Honorable Mention, 2005 Lorine Niedecker Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers
  • Featured Poet on Verse Daily, February 5, 2006
  • Special Merit Finalist, 2005 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Prize, The Comstock Review
  • Finalist for Book Publication, Steel Toe Books, 2005
  • Semi-Finalist, 2005 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press
  • Jerome Stern Scholarship, Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, 2005
  • Honorable Mention, 2004 Lorine Niedecker Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers
  • Semi-Finalist, 2004 Murial Craft Bailey Poetry Award, The Comstock Review
  • Finalist, 2004 Spokane First Book Prize for Poetry, Eastern Washington University Press
  • Semi-Finalist, 2004 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press
  • Semi-Finalist, 2003 Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize, Universities West Press
  • Semi-Finalist, Winnow Press First Book Award, 2003
  • Rowland Foundation Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, June, 2003
  • Semi-Finalist, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, 2003
  • Winner, 2002 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize sponsored by CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, judged by Eleanor Wilner
  • Grant, The Poetry Buzz: An Aural Year-Full, January, 2001 – December, 2001, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission (designer and webmaster, as well as one of the 52 poets featured on WORT-FM radio, the web site, and on CD and cassette)
  • Finalist, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, 1994 and 1992
  • Second and Third prizes, Madison Area Writers Association Writing Contest, 1990

Other Top of Page

THE BIG READ, "Words on Fire," Waukesha Public Library, Waukesha, WI, 2007

2007 Wisconsin Book Festival: Homelands: Secure and Insecure - Lake Effect Poets Reading

"Miracles Enough," reprinted with permission, featured poem in the 2006 Annual Report, Midwest Environmental Advocates

Text & Texture, with Echo, An Exhibition of Collaborative Works between Fiber Artists and Poets, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin, July 6 - September 20, 2006

Judge, Ekphrastic Feast Poetry Contest, Rosebud and Avol's Bookstore (Madison, WI), June 2006

Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, 2006-2010

2005 Wisconsin Book Festival:

  • In Praise of Humanities: Lake Effect Poets Reading
  • "Writing as a Way of Healing" panel
  • Council for Wisconsin Writer's Awards Reading
  • Poetry Planning Committee, 2004 Wisconsin Book Festival

    Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Baltimore, March, 2003, served on a Panel entitled “The Writer and the Wound”

    Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, New Orleans, March, 2002, served on a Panel entitled “Turn Your Radio On”

     

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