A finalist for the Poets & Writers Magazine California Writers Exchange Contest 2009/2010

Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize

The poem "Faulkner Farms" forthcoming in River Styx

Nominated Best of the Net by diode for Persimmon

Finalist for the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize

Poems forthcoming in Poemeleon, Prairie Schooner, Spillway 2

Featured poet in PoetryMagazine.com ~ Fall 2009

Download Rattle's 'First Book Interview' of Good Friday Kiss 

Hear praise poem for Patti Smith in The Cortland Review

Read and Listen to Mother's Day Omen on Linebreak

Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize

Featured in the current issue of Pirenes Fountain

Radio Interview on The Moe Green Poetry Hour with Dorianne Laux.

The Cafe Review of Blue Laws is here.

Featured Poet on Verse Daily - October 10, 2008

Featured Poet in Perigree Magazine, Issue 21, Summer 2008

Three Aberfan series sonnets published in Narrative Magazine.

Two sonnets from the Aberfan series chosen as semi-finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize, 2008.

Nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize.

Selected poems to appear in upcoming 2008 / 2009 publications:

Prairie Schooner (2 poems)

Crab Creek Review

Siren

Mudfish (poetry prize finalist)

Narrative Magazine

Many Mountains Moving

Pebble Lake Review

Nimrod

The Valparaiso Review

The Pedestal Magazine

Long Island Quarterly

Named "Poet of Distinction" by the Florence Poets Society for the poem "Newman's Own" to be published in Silkworm, 2007.