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Poems chosen, with publications coming soon, & award for:

  • Poetrybay: Long Island Quarterly 2025-2026

    • poem: minutes

  • Walt's Corner - The Long Island Press

    • poem: "S O S"

  • Write by the Rails

    • poem: sagacity whiff - earned 2nd place in poetry

 

Poems published 2025:​​​​

  • Saving Ourselves - proceeds to go to women's advocacy organization(s)

    • Poems:

      • Hosts

      • private property

      • seeds of a leader

      • venerable valor

  • Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review Editor's Choice:

    • Poem: stop killing

    • Photography: dauntless, emergent hope, inhale peace

  • Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, Democracy project (title tbd)

    • Poem: portals

    • Co-Editor of this publication

  • Bards Annual 2025

    • Poem: soul dancer

  • NoVA Bards Annual 2025

    • Poem: where no one can see

  • The Journal of the Virginia Writers Club - Journal 2025

    • Poem: earth heart

  • Local Gems Press - Nassau County Voices In Verse 2025

    • Poem: cosmic alchemy

  • Local Gems Press - Empire Poetry Verse

    • Poem: poets pollinate

  • All The Women Came And Sang Anthology

    • Poem: prams for peace

  • Bards: Dawn Horizon Poetry of New Beginnings

    • Poem: N O !

  • Write By The Rails - Glint of Light Biennial Anthology 

    • Poem: Freeness

    • Poem: scarcity

    • Poem: touching clouds

 

Poems published 2024:

  • To Be Completely Honest Anthology 

    • a return to the scene​

    • are you ready to continue?

    • the joy thief​​

  • Bards Annual 2024

    • an epoch wound​

  • Nassau County Poet Laureate Society

    • and nature hums carry on

  • NoVA Bards Annual 2024

    • the woods cried today

  • Walt Whitman 205th Birthday Anniversary Anthology

    • wound glitter​​​​

  • SpilledInk VA​​

  • Writing Outside the Lines

    • throated silence​​​

  • Nassau County Voices In Verse

    • unseen​

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The Long-Islander: Walt's Corner

2024 published poem

lub dub, lub dub, lub dub...

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The Long Island Quarterly

2023-2024 edition published

b l e e d

The Long-Islander: Walt's Corner

2022 published

she persists

Ms. Magazine

2021 published

on my back

A Tribute to the 2021 Women's March

The Long Island Quarterly

2021-2022 edition published

peace reign

Chicken Soup for the Soul:

Listen to Your Dreams 

2020 published

Urgent Serenity

Works and Awards also include

Books ~ Magazines ~ Museums

Dream Believe Publish

Nature's Breath

Book, e-book, notecards

The Long Island Writer's Group magazine

The Odyssey 2018-2024

various poems, including

silence,  stay and haiku

9/11 Memorial & Museum

Artist Registry

windows - before 

NCPLS-Hofstra Archive

poets pollinate

LI Sounds: 2023 An Anthology

of Poetry from

Maspeth to Montauk and Beyond

where shadows prowl

paumanok transition

poet and co-editor

between the dark and the stars

your lantern home

The Long Island Authors Group

prose

hero honor

secret weapon

Poetry Anthologies

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Nassau County Poet Laureate

Society Review

Volume VI 2018

my angel, my angel

Volume VII 2019 

Perspective

Volume VIII 2020

Sacrifice

Volume IX 2021-2022

"say goodbye"

Volume X 2023

unchained

Performance Poets Association

Literary Review

Volume 23 2019

black rose and photography

Volume 24 2020

fall and photography

Volume 25 2021

luminous and photography

Volume 26 2023

autumnal leaves

Bard’s / Local Gems Press

Bard's Annual

2023 prettiest star

2022 Vaccine?

2021 The Attic

2020 burdened, yet determined

2019 forward momentum

 

Bards Against Hunger

2022 V-day

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Rhyme & PUNishment

2019 Comedic Verse the mani

 

Tea-Ku

2021 Haiku

Collaborations

2020 A Pathway To Dreams

2020 The Mondo

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The North Sea Poetry Scene Press

Never Forgotten 100 Poets Remember 9/11

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

2021 windows - before

Nassau County Voices in Verse

2023 between eye blinks

2024 unseen

Awards & Recognitions

Nassau County Poet Laureate Society:

2019 Honorable Mention

Perspective

Long Island Literary Arts

Princess Ronkonkoma

2019 Honorable Mention

Theme Grandma's Garden

The Secret Weapon

2021 Third Place

Theme How to forgive yourself

a return to the scene

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Long Island Agricultural Fair

Old Bethpage

2021 Third Place

Theme Long Island Gardens

Rhythms

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