credits
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (in process):
“Big Fish, Little Fish” — Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review, 2026
“Freedom's Whispered Welcome” — E pluribus unum (Bards Initiative, 2026)
“I Call It the Guitar Museum” — SkipJack Review (Fall/Winter, 2026)
“Am I a Poet” — Voices from the Valley, anthology of the Locust Valley Library
“At the New Year” — Oberon poetry magazine
LITERARY JOURNALS:
Amethyst Review ("Whales of Summer" / "Prime Real Estate" / “Thrill Seeker” / “Candlemas, Midpoint of Winter”)
The Avocet
("Colorado Rain" / "Glacial Change" / "Handful of Hope" / "Winter Nocturne" / “Oh, Willow, Don't You Weep” / “Before Winter” / “Keeping House” / “the wind is stealing the tomatoes” / “Autumn Ritual” / “Change in the Air” / “Hope” / “Between the Hours of Darkness” / "Crickets in the Cellar" / “Arctic Blast” / “Winter Druthers” / “Lean Times” / “Mute Swans in May” … among many others)
Bards Annual ("Time's Spiral” / "Morning in Retirement" / “A Familiar Tune” / “Open Mic” / “If Only I Could Draw” / "Pop-Up Thunderstorm" / “Leisure Day at the Beach”)
Bards Against Hunger, 10-Year Anniversary Edition
("High Fives")
Boston Literary Magazine ("The Baker")
The Closed Eye Open/Maya’s Micros ("Renewal" / "Mind Over Matter" / "Yellow Arm of Destruction")
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine (Winter 2025) ("Time Change")
Evening Street Review ("The Last Gas Station" / “A Moment of Grace” / “Morning Walk” / “A Nickel Apiece”)
Floating Acorn Review (“Hope”)
Front Porch Review [RIP Glen Phillips, Founder/Editor]
("Crunch Time" / “Tattered Nation” / “Holidays with the Folks” / “It Ain't Easy Being Green” / “Out of Sync” / “the notes in my home” / "About Forgiveness”)
Gyroscope Review ("Yellow Kayak in Winter")
Long Island Sounds ("Between the Hours of Darkness" / “The Midas Touch”)
The Long-Islander, Walt’s Corner ("We Are Beach Glass" / “Winter Solstice” / "Spring Thaw at Lake Tahoe” / Seasonal Disorder)
Medicinal Purposes, A Literary Review ("Priests' Chamber, Great Pyramid at Giza")
Mobius Magazine: The Journal of Social Change ("Freedom Canceled" / “It's a Crime” / “The Work to Be Done”)
MockingHeart Review ("The Anniversary" / “On the Line” / “When You Say Migrant”)
The Morning Edition, WNYC/NPR (Aired April 1, 2024 on radio)
("Shots Fired at Heckscher Park")
Muddy River Poetry Review ("Earthly Concerns" / “High Art” / “Why I Could Never Make It as a Diplomat”)
Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review ("Coffee Break" / “After the Last Curtain Call” / “Oldies” / “May Promises” / “Out on the Mudflats”)
Oberon Poetry Magazine ("Love's Promise")
Panoply ("Resistance" / "Shots Fired at Heckscher Park")
Performance Poets Association (PPA) Literary Review ("A Party" / “P-Town” / ”Shelter in a Chelsea Storm" / “The Orchard at St. Francis Retreat House, Oyster Bay, NY”)
The Poeming Pigeon: From Pandemic to Protest ("A Greek Tragedy")
The Poet’s Art
("In the Face of Retirement" / “Play to Win” / “The Tao of Resistance”)
PoetryBay—Long Island Quarterly ("Fog Horn" / “All Hell Has Broken Loose” / “At the Edge of Hunger” / “Sisters-in-Law” / “Flashing Yellows")
Poetry Path 2024: A Walk in the Park (NAC) ("Sleepless in January")
Poetry Path 2025: The View from Here (NAC) ("Watershed Moment")
Poetry X Hunger ("Hollow-Eyed Hunger" [first-place winner in Babylon Village Arts Council Poetry Contest] / “A Nickel Apiece” [first published in Evening Street Review] / "At the Edge of Hunger” [first published in Long Island Quarterly] / “On the Line” [first published in MockingHeart Review])
The RavensPerch ("Hard Wood Wisdom" / “Rush Hour” / “Eclipsed" / “Out from the Shadows” / "September Came Early”)
Rhyme and PUNishment NY, NJ, CT ("Garden Overgrown")
Shot Glass Journal ("The Death of Civility" / "In Memoriam”)
Suffolk County Poetry Review
("Books Devourted" / "Tilt" / "The Handoff" / “Timely Reflections” / “A Party” / “Two Hawks on a Saturday”)
The Scene (“Even If We Disagree” )
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association: Poem in Your Pocket Day ("If Only I Could Draw" / "April Shower”)
Wild Roof Journal ("Throwing Shade")
ANTHOLOGIES:
All the Women Came & Sang ("Baby Steps" / “Old Friends” / "Women's Space”)
Bards Across the Pond (“Wellfleet's Gull Pond”)
Bards Poetica (“Poetry Revived”)
Broad Daylight, a tribute to Renee Nicole Good, by Fin Hall, Bridie Breen ("ICE Not Welcome Here")
CHAOS: A Poetry Vortex ("Not the Founders' Dream" / “Just Enjoy Life” / “Turning Point”)
Childhood Anthology ("Piano Lessons")
CORONA, an anthology of poems, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association ("A Sunday Morning Hike Imagined During Quarantine" / “Collateral Damage”)
Dawn Horizons ("Montage" / “A Change of Heart”)
Dear Vaccine - Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic
Eastern Sea Bards ("Realty's Prism")
Empire Poetry Verse Anthology — (“Driving by the Old House” )
Escape—Calling All Writers ("April in Glen Cove Back When I Was Young" / “First Day on Holiday”)
Hope—Calling All Writers ("Untold Stories" / “Something's Not Right”)
Minute Musings ("Untimely Death" / "Handful of Hope”)
Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11, the 20th Anniversary Anthology
("9/11/01" / “Orange and Black: Beyond Haiku” / “Flag Waving”)
Paumanok: Transition ("Resilience" / “Out of Sync” / “Older and Smaller”)
Remember When (“Class Trip”)
Rumors, Secrets & Lies ("No Choice")
Some of the Best Long Island Poetry: 2024 ("Lost" / “Journey Through Spring” / “Sepia Silence”)
Storm of the Bards ("An Invisible Cloak")
The Eagle and the Maple ("Autumn Equinox")
To Be Completely Honest ("Who Me?" / “Hesitation Blues” / “Life Lessons at Vassar” / “Living True”)
Trees in a Garden of Ashes, Poetry of Resilience ("Balance")
Twin Towers, Twin Decades: Poetry for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
("The Writing on the Wall")
Walt Whitman: Two Hundred and Five ("Watching the Process")
What Unites Us: Prose, Poetry, and The Constitution, Democracy, Rule of Law anthology created by Kathaleen Donnelly & Adam D. Fisher (“Sweet Land of Liberty”)
