Welcome and thank you for your interest in my work.
“Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence…
not balances / That we achieve but balances that happen…”
Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” 1.7
We are justified in our beliefs by our awareness that the test of seriousness is not simply our sense of a certain urgency in the poem, or a certain “tone” or “mood,” but our sense of personal movement and change in reading the poem. Our subjective judgement is firmly experiential; that is our verification. For we believe that the function of the poem…is to create us, to extend our beings indefinitely in evolving structures of thought and feelings.
Hayden Carruth, “Seriousness and the Inner Poem”
About
I live in Utica, NY working as a registered nurse and serving as editor of Doubly Mad, a literary and visual arts journal operated by The Other Side of Utica. My poetry has appeared in various journals, and my first full-length collection Adding Saffron is under contract with Finishing Line Press, due out in January, 2025.
Publications
Journals in which my poetry has appeared (starting with most recent):
Rust + Moth (also an earlier issue)
Thimble Literary Magazine (also an earlier issue)
the Thieving Magpie (also an earlier issue)
Sangam Literary Magazine
The Oddville Press