Watch my FREE mini writing workshop talk on "Investigative Poetry" on the Main Street Rag Publishing YouTube site.

New poems were recently published in The Twin Bill Baseball Lit (audio poem on podcast), Colossus Current, ephemeras literary magazine, Orenaug Poetry Journal, Antae, Failed Haiku, Ropes Literary Journal, Audacious Women Anthology, Coop Zine, Amethyst Review, The Other Journal, Christian Feminism Today, T'art online, underscore_magazine, little somethings press, The Soliloquist Journal, and many others.

Poets & Patrons inteviews me about poetry and publishing in its  Member Spotlight.

Upcoming readings:

~ Morton Arboretum Sterling Morton Library, Lisle, Illinois, poems about trees, Saturday, April 19, 2025, Noon.

~ Dandelion Bookshop, Oak Park, Illinois, Saturday, April 19, 2025, 7 pm.

~ Mercy Street Reading Series, online, Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 6 pm CT. Register to view the zoom.

~ Sunday Salon Chicago, Sunday, May 24, 2026, 7 pm. Roscoe Books  

2024 poetry year-in-review:

~ Nominated for The 2025 Nina Riggs Poetry Award, a collaboration of Cave Wall Press and The Nina Riggs Poetry Foundation, for the poem “Late Summer Camping Trip” from the anthology Road Trips: Poets Respond to Travel on Life’s Highways and Byways, Highland Park Poetry Press

~ Bronze Prize for “”Happy Chinese New Year” poem in the International Writing Competition, 6th Annual Canadian Duanwu Festival (Dragonboat Festival), 2024

~  Nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology, for “Grave of the Cracker Jack Boy,” Twin Bill Lit.

~ The Chicago Reader "Rewind" issue reprinted my 2011 article about "The Original Pink Ladies" later iconized in the musical "Grease."

~ Had nearly 40 poems published in literary magazines and anthologies during 2024, and forthcoming as of the New Year in 2025.  Thank you to all the publishers who support my work, here in the U.S. and abroad!