Just Kidding
Just Kidding—my third poetry chapbook, was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press—a collection of “kid” poems about justice—for kids and their caretakers. Its collected poems recognize the privilege (and irony) of being able to reflect on the challenges, joys, and contradictions of raising brothers born at the same time—fraternal twins—from birth through college—while narrating some of the ambivalent pleasures of maternity.Purchase
2018
Snap
My second chapbook, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2017, whose title evokes the finger snaps that stood for mass assent at Occupy meetings. Its poems celebrate the tiny and large push backs against commodification and capital while mourning the impoverishment of personal and political legacies. It chronicles multiple contradictions along with the erosion of affective ties—all under the shadow of both workplace and personal existential loss.
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2017
Cleaving
My first publication, is a poetry chapbook that won First Prize at the small press, Poets Corner, in 2007. Thoroughly historical--from the inheritance of the Fifties through the heady Sixties while rushing headlong into the cyberneticized Aughts—Cleaving interrogates the impossibility of nostalgia as holding to what is ambivalently split, recognizing the survival necessity of incorporating and understanding what it rejects and what is lost.Out of print; contact author to order