Literary Journal Publications

  • Feeding the Dying (poem), upcoming in Thimble Literary Magazine, Winter 2024
  • Advocate’s Prayer With Apologies to Ilya Kaminsky (poem), Slippery Elm Journal, Fall-Winter 2022
  • Exhuming Neruda (poem), Slippery Elm Journal, Fall-Winter 2022
  • Mother of Exiles (poem), New Millennium Writings Issue 26 — 2017 (Finalist, 42nd New Millennium Poetry Prize)
  • The Way We Are (poem), Crosswinds Poetry Journal II — 2017 (Honorable Mention, 2016 Annual Crosswinds Poetry Contest)
  • My Rumpelstiltskin (poem), Crosswinds Poetry Journal II — 2017 (Finalist, 2016 Annual Crosswinds Poetry Contest)
  • Fisherman Out of Water (poem), Fifth Estate, Issue #397 Winter, 2017 and Reed Magazine, Issue 69, May 2016 (Finalist, 2016 Edwin Markham Poetry Award)
  • Stepmother en Filipinas, Circa 1948 (poem), Voices Journal, April 2016
  • First-Time Reader (poem), Lyrical Iowa, 2016            
  • Reconstruction of Lost Things (poem), Elite Critiques Magazine, Dec. 2015            
  • To Be Known (essay), Ruminate Magazine, Issue 37
  • Alter Ego (poem), Abyss & Apex, October 2015
  • Writers’ Retreat (poem), Westward Quarterly, Fall 2015
  • Ode to Joy (poem), Westward Quarterly, Fall 2015            
  • Mitchell’s Plane (poem), The Milo Review, Summer 2015
  • Note to (Writer) Self: (poem), Westward Quarterly, Summer 2015
  • Letting Go (poem), Earthen Lamp Journal, Summer 2015
  • Quantum Entanglement (poem), Lyrical Iowa 2013
  • A Love Letter To My Students (poem), Lyrical Iowa, 2010             
  • Second Time Around (poem), Lyrical Iowa, 2008
  • Sculptor (poem), In the Spotlight Magazine, Winter 2005
  • Dancer (poem), In the Spotlight Magazine, Winter 2005
  • Warrior Heart (poem), In the Spotlight Magazine, Summer 2004
  • To An Elder California Gentleman (poem), In the Spotlight Magazine, Summer 2004
  • Heart’s Storm, Soul’s Tempest (poem), International Library of Poetry, 1999
  • Pilgrim (poem), Dicta (Literary Journal of University of Michigan School of Law), 1996