Today is the one-year anniversary of my debut poetry collection, “If There Is No Wind”(Human Error Publishing). This has been an amazing journey. The book is available in online bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop, etc.) and at Watchung Bookstore in Montclair, NJ and I Am Books, in Boston, MA.

Highland Park Poetry posted the review of my book on their facebook page today, 9/11/23. Click here to go to their page. I am honored.

My events for September and October! I will update with information as I get it. Very excited to get in gear–I was riding in neutral for August. You know, that summer laze and hazy days. Reach out if you have questions. Already booking into November.

Thanks go to Tom Plante, editor and publisher of Exit 13, for the fabulous issue that arrived in my mailbox today. I am joined by 45 other writers in this issue including Kenneth Ronkowitz, Adele Kenny, Nancy Lubarsky, Denise La Neve, Susanna Rich, Bob Rosenbloom, Rogan Kelly, Phillipa Scott.

Thank you, Platform Review for publishing two of my poems in your online journal! Thrilled! Go to the link and read ALL the wonderful work! Including wonderful works by Cristina Querrer, Kelley White, and Tyson Ellis Berardo!

I love finding writing communities. I first met CMarie Fuhrman at Arts By the People 2 years ago in a writing workshop. She invited us to participate in IdaPost, Wish You Were Here, a pen pal project she conceived “investigating place through story – our place, this place, the place of the past and even of the future.” This was a collaboration between the Idaho Commission on the Arts and CMarie, the Idaho Writer in Residence, who recently completed her tenure. I was happy to jump in. I met two fantastic writers over 2 years, my pen pals–Peggy Larsen and Andrea Eldridge. All the pen pals contributed to a publication, as a culmination to our project based on our postcard prompts. Thank you CMarie, Peggy and Andrea for this creative adventure and welcoming me, a New Jersey resident, into your Idaho community.

Thanks to Local Gem Press for publishing my poem, The Writer’s Drawer, in the New Jersey Bards, 2023 edition. If interested, you can order copies on the publisher’s website (Local Gems Poetry Press) or on Amazon.

Thanks to founder, publisher and editor, Maria Gillan of the Paterson Literary Review for publishing “Hide my Heart,” in issue # 51. In addition, “Anguish” won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. As always, I am honored to be part of an amazing publication.

I will be leading a workshop entitled, “Quiet the Mind so the Heart Can Write,” Sunday, July 23rd at the IWWG Conference in Philadelphia (Chestnut Hill College). Looking forward to it!

I was delighted to be one of the authors at the Passaic County Book Festival this year on June 10th.  Thanks to the organizers of the event and John J. Trause, who organized the poetry readings.  It was a beautiful day to read, listen and share all things poetry. Shout out to Raymond Turco who hosted my reading, and poets Diane Belinfanti, Paul Juszcyk, Denise La Neve, Paul Nash and. George Witte. It was great to see and catch up with novelist, Marina Antropow Cramer at the festival. https://seepassaiccounty.org/explore/passaic-county-libraries/passaic-county-book-festival-2023/