Reviews & Recognition
First Place, Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition, Cork, Ireland for the poem "Caught", judge Maurice Riordan:
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“...‘Caught’ I found irresistible on many readings. It is a beautifully achieved poem. It has a toned perfection both of voice and stanzaic muscle. The repetitive use of the imperative provides an efficient little engine to propel the poem through our world of danger and damage, resonating at times with perennial fears, elsewhere suggesting recent circumstances. And then, almost unnoticed, ‘forget’ mutates into ‘forgotten’. How smart is that! Never I suspect has ‘silk’, that last word, been used in the context of such forlorn constraint.”
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Sundress Academy The Wardrobe's Best Dressed:
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Review of The Book of Crooked Prayer, by poet Angela Dribben. Up the Staircase Quarterly #53, May 2021.
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"Relic" (first published in Stirring: A Literary Collection from Sundress Publications) South Dakota State Poetry Society: "Poets You Should Know"
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Review of The Sea is My Ugly Twin by poet Jeanne Emmons, in the 2019 issue of The Briar Cliff Review. Can a book review be as poetic as the poems it reviews? Yes. Yes it can.
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Review of Triple Goddess exhibit by Brenda Johnson:
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Honors & Prizes
​"Caught" 1st Place, O’Bheal Five-Word Challenge International Poetry Competition,
judge Maurice Riordan (Ireland)
The Sin Ladder (forthcoming manuscript) Finalist, Cider Press Review Poetry Prize
"Rapture" shortlisted, O’Bhéal Five-Word Challenge International Poetry Competition, judge Theo Dorgan
​"Bathing Mother" Shortlisted, O’Bheal Five-Word Challenge International Poetry Competition, judge Maurice Riordan (Ireland)
"Maid of Fire" runner-up, 2009 Rita Dove Poetry Award, Salem College, judge Molly Peacock
"Prairie Dark" 1st Place, 2010 High Plains Writers Poetry Contest
"Timber," Second Place, Portrait Category, South Dakota State Poetry Society Annual Contest
The Book of Crooked Prayer, Honorable Mention, Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, National Federation of State Poetry Societies
"Evolution," First Place Poetry, Switchgrass Review, Judge Odilia Galván Rodríguez
"Letter to My Father," Finalist, Nancy Hargrove Editor’s Prize
"St. Joan of Arc" (first published as "Maid of Fire"), Runner Up, Rita Dove Poetry Award, judge Molly Peacock