"In Praise of My Brother, the Painter" poem film was selected by Atticus Review for their Mixed Media section. Click on here to watch!

New poem-film "Boys Like You" debuts on Cheek Teeth/Trachodon

Palisadian Post article I wrote about teaching poetry and the influence of my great grandmother, actress Beryl Mercer

My petit blog essay "The Muse and The Making of Poem-films" appears here on Cheek Teeth/Trachodon

"Permeable, Smitten" a sonnet, won the Beyond Baroque Foundation Award 

My book "Notes to the Beloved" has won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award!

My Ten Minute Play "Easter" to be performed 9/20/2011 at Tuesdays@Nine, West Hollywood: Naked Angels

Poems Forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, diode, Anti--, and Chaparral

L.A. Weekly feature poem: "After Four Days of Hammering Rain" 

Verse Daily Web Feature, June 2011 

Portions of my full-length play "Trees" to be featured in upcoming Tuesdays@Nine reading series, Los Angeles 

My poem "Black Guitar" on Linebreak with audio

Article in Palisades Post about my teaching work with local students through Cal Poets in the Schools

Interview with Keith Montesano about my first book, Good Friday Kiss 

Cool interview with me and online magazine, Poemeleon

Spotlighted California Poet in the Schools Teacher!  

Maggie Siff of AMC's show MAD MEN read my poem "Halloween" at Word/Theatre's Autism Speaks Benefit held at Creative Artists Agency in November, 2010.

Nominated for a 2010 "Best of the Net"

for "In the Gardens of Esalen" published in Poemeleon

Mammary on Rattle with audio! 

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.