Publications, Readings, & Book Signings
Publications, Individual Poems
Halfway Down the Stairs
(Skeletons)
“Sidewalk for Trees”
fron//tera: Revista literaria bilingüe
con base en Madrid y Portland // Bilingual
literary magazine based in Madrid and Portland
(estados silvestres // natural states)
Nightingale & Sparrow
(harmony)
“Just before Menopause”
Musings on Perimenopause and
Menopause: Identity, Experience, Transition
(Demeter Press, 2021)
“My Information”
(For Sale)
“Stopping in Athens”
(Cities)
“Choice of a Country”
Amsterdam Quarterly 2020 Yearbook
“The Delivery People with No Masks”
(I Know What You Did Last Pandemic)
“After the Wedding”
Earth’s Daughters
(Put Out the Fire)
“The Cat”
“The Tampon Poem”
(The Visual Poetry Issue)
“Choice of a Country”
(Choices)
“Living Without Fear of the Air”
North of Oxford – The Pandemic Issue #4
“Type Writer”
“Natural World”
pacific REVIEW:
A West Coast Arts Review Annual
(Synchronous)
“Jasmine”
Still You: Poems of Illness and Healing
(Wolf Ridge Press, 2020)
“Your Father”
Feminist Fathering/Fathering Feminists:
New Definitions and Directions
(Demeter Press, 2020)
“In the Crawl Space”
The Timberline Review
(Home 2019)
Featured poem, from Intersection on Neptune,
on Verse Daily
“Woman from Thessaloníki,”
“The Step of the Door,”
and commentary: chapter 15
Motherhood and Social Exclusion
(Demeter Press, 2019)
Infinite Rust
(issue: Home)
“If I Come Back in a Second Life”
Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
(Begin)
TRANSverse
(Resistance & Resilience / La resistance et le ressort)
ANTITHESIS Journal’s blog
(July 19, 2018)
with audio
“Poem of the Week”
(June 18, 2018)
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
“Snake Oil”
Women's Studies Quarterly: WSQ
(Beauty)
“Showing You the Grooming Tools”
The Fenland Reed
(The Body)
“If my dog liked to dive off boats,”
The Mind’s Eye
(issue: Dog Diaries)
“Second Half”
Mom Egg Review
(Mothers Work, Mothers Play)
“Up ahead a slice of bone,”
The Ilanot Review
(Pictures)
“Exiled at Siesta”
BLYNKT
“Seeing You at the Show Grounds”
The Broken City
(Hurry! Hard!)
“The Hourglass of My Figure
Has Swallowed a Pear”
“Keratosis”
BLYNKT
(Body Politics)
“Wings”
“Icteridae”
Flightpath
(Hallowell Press, 2017)
“What I Could Have Done”
Earth's Daughters
(Hindsight)
“Bus Stop, Athens, Greece”
Cæsura: The Journal of Poetry Center San José
“Service”
“Women Didn’t Go to the Kafeníon”
fron//tera: bilingual literary magazine
based in Madrid
(boundaries//límites)
“Lesson”
Amsterdam Quarterly
(Education)
“Cloud”
“After Letting the Horses Out”
The Lost Sparrow
(Lost Sparrow Press, 2017)
“America”
“1984”
“Cameras”
Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 2017
(Volume 31.1: Privacy and Freedom
in the Digital Age)
“Lover”
Forage
(Poetry of Nature)
“Hot Breath”
Contemporary Verse 2:
The Canadian Journal of Poetry and
Critical Writing (CV2)
Hair issue
“Raccoon Prints”
Whitefish Review
Tenth Anniversary issue (Out of Time)
“Fishing for an Octopus”
Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology
(Zoomorphic, 2016)
“The lake, when I was growing up,”
Earth’s Daughters
(issue 88. Ebb, 2016)
“The Fast”
Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge
(Demeter Press, 2016)
“Bee”
Pilgrimage magazine
(Fear)
“The island’s heat”
“The way the coast came to meet us”
“Desire in the Rock of the Cove”
New Madrid, Journal of Contemporary Literature
(Evolving Islands)
“Pithy”
Green Humanities:
Eco-Gencies: Eco-Critical Responses
to Contemporary Environmental Crises
“Arrival”
Magma Poetry, 2014
(Freedom)
“Swallowing Ourselves Whole”
Magma Poetry, 2014
(Breaks)
“Transposition”
Earth’s Daughters, 2014
(Light)
“To My Boy Friend in High School”
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
Sport Literature Anthology
“Original Bride”
Vallum: contemporary poetry, issue 11:1, 2014
(Thresholds)
“Through the Front Door”
Magma Poetry, 2013
(The Shape of the Poem)
“Going Fishing and Cooking the Fish”
About Place Journal, November 2013
(The Future of Water)
Four poems
Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism
Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press, 2013
“The Submission Process”
Journal of South Texas English Studies, summer 2013
(The Writer's Experience)
“Fit”
“Exercise”
New Writing: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama: The Best of Americana
Press Americana, 2013
“Like a Day I Never Knew”
The Other Journal, 2013 (Prayer)
“The Shepherd” (with audio)
qarrtsiluni, 2013
(Animals in the City)
“Succumbed”
Earth’s Daughters, 2013
(One if by Land)
“Looking at Us Eat”
“Watching the Birds”
Journal of South Texas English Studies, winter 2013
(The Politics of...)
“Naive”
Indian River Review, 2012
“Display”
subTerrain, 2012
“The Women of the Village”
Off the Coast, spring 2012
GREEN issue
“at the taverna”
“Pressing On”
“Mother of the House”
“A Sigh on Mykonos”
“Thick Rope”
“The Half of It”
“C’est vrai, I’m thinking—”
Telling and Re-telling: The Mosaics of Traveling
Narratives and Narrators
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
“To Wake Us”
Stymie: A Journal of Sport & Literature
The Poetry Supplement, winter 2012
“The Rover”
Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Cultural Diversity, fall 2011
“Morning on Mykonos”
“I Cannot Lie Down Anymore”
“A Slice of Noon”
“Finding Myself at the Acropolis”
mediterranean poetry, 2011
“To My Boy Friend in High School”
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
“Bathing at Peaks of Otter”
Vallum: new international poetics, issue 8:1, 2011 (Mountains & Heights)
“The Way Out”
Cimarron Review, issues 175 and 176, spring/summer 2011
“Sure”
Knocking at the Door: Poems for Approaching the Other
Birch Bench Press, 2011
“Running from Predators”
“Sure Footing”
“Washing My Horse’s Sheath”
Sport Literate, 15th Anniversary issue
“The First Winter Winds”
“Cove in Another Country”
LiNQ, 2010 (Islands)
“Lost”
“An pei kati, tha faei ksilo”
Descant, The Winter Reader, 2010
“To Fos Stin Elláda”
/One/: The Journal of Literature, Art and Ideas, October 2010
“What Is Missing”
Alligator Juniper, Special International Section, issue 15, 2010
“The Village Mongrels”
“The Abandoned Woman in the Water Closet”
antiTHESIS, 2010 (Fear)
“Ode to Fungi-filled Face Cream”
Decomposition: An Anthology of Fungi-Inspired Poems
(Lost Horse Press, 2010)
Selection of poems
Atenea: a bilingual journal of the humanities and social sciences (special issue on Time and Temporality)
“Leaving You”
“Translation”
Jacket, issue 38, late 2009 (Feature: H.D.)
“Circumstance”
Vallum: contemporary poetry, issue 7:1, 2009 (Luck)
“I Refuse. I Refuse.”
Existere - Journal of Arts and Literature, fall 2009/winter 2010
“Just Married in the Village”
Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, volume 22, 2009
“Beyond Appearances”
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, issue 32, spring/summer 2009 (special issue on ekphrastic poetry)
“Calling Out”
“The Permissible Food of Marriage”
“The Supper”
Cæsura: The Journal of Poetry Center San José, spring 2009
“Is Time Immortal?”
Cider Press Review, 2009
“Re-sort”
Amoskeag, spring 2009
“The Women”
“Blue Dusk”
Poetic Voices Without Borders 2
Gival Press, 2009
“Country”
genre: arrivals and departures, 2009 (genre: an International Journal of Literature and the Arts)
“A Life of Blood”
Women. Period.
Spinsters Ink, 2008
“Football in Athens, with Her”
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
“The New Filly”
“Control”
Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses
Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008
“Uncertain wavering”
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po LISTSERV
Red Hen Press, 2008
“The Coastal Road”
“Paradise”
“Sunrise, Mytilini”
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, Issue No. 21, winter/spring 2008 (Islands and Archipelagos)
“Horse Auction”
“How Things Are”
Descant, fall 2007 issue (Fashion)
“From the 21st Floor”
Crab Orchard Review, summer/fall 2007 issue (Come Together ~ Occasions, Ceremonies, & Celebrations)
“Muscle”
Earth’s Daughters, double issue (Once Upon a Time and Games); the poem is also mentioned in the Small Press Review, September 7, 2007
Five poems
Interdisciplinary Humanities (The National Association for Humanities Education Scholarly Journal), spring 2007 issue (Technoculture)
Readings & Book Signings
2021
River Read Readings Series
June 12
Virtual
2019
Reading and Book Launch for Intersection on Neptune, winner of Prize Americana, Bridgewater Public Library, Somerset Poetry Group, Bridgewater, N.J., September 4
2012
Reading, Poets at the Library, U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative and Delaware Valley Poets Joint Readings Series, Princeton Public Library, Princeton, N.J., June 11
Reading, Somerset Poetry Group, Bridgewater Township Library, Bridgewater, NJ, May 1
2009
Reading, Delaware Valley Poets, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Princeton MarketFair, NJ, September 14
Reading, in celebration of Small Press Month and the release of the anthology Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press), The New York Center for Independent Publishing, New York City, March 18
2008
Reading, The Greek-American Writers' Association, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, September 20
Reading, Delaware Valley Poets, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Princeton MarketFair, NJ, September 8
Book Signing, B. Dalton Booksellers, Quaker Bridge Mall, Lawrenceville, NJ, March 22
Girl Talk: A Women's Poetry Reading, A Reading in Celebration of Women's History Month, West Caldwell Public Library, NJ, March 15 See photos at Blogalicious.
Book Signing, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair, New York City, Americas Hall II, table #455, Potomac Review / Gival Press, February 1
Terrain.org's 10th Anniversary Read, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, January 31 Photos at Terrain.org Blog, February 9, 2008
2007
Book Signing, B. Dalton Booksellers, Quaker Bridge Mall, Lawrenceville, NJ, December 16
Coffee House Poetry Reading, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, The Hamilton Marketplace, Hamilton, NJ, Sponsored by Allies Inc., December 13
Reading, Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown, PA, November 30
Reading, Illini Union Bookstore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Authors Corner, October 29
Reading, The Greek-American Writers' Association, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, April 21
Cup & Pen Reading Series, Think Coffee, New York City, January 3
2006
Reading and Book Launch, Princeton University Store, NJ, December 2
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