Acknowledgements
Anger Pebble Lake Review, Winter 2005
The Love Poems Of Anne Sexton Driftwood, Issue 8, Spring 2005
Another Field The Litchfield Review, April 2005
Yes It’s A Love Poem Lilliput Review, October 2005
Eve Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005
The Arboretum Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005
And Then This Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005
How We Love Our Parents Swallow The Moon, Issue 1, Spring 2005
She Actually Became my Friend Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006
Welfare In America Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006
The Day Before She Died Swallow The Moon, Issue 2, Spring 2006
Fortune Cookie Shadow Poetry-SP Quill Quarterly, 2006
Tucson The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
Walking Away The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
Communion The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
New Year In Florida The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
The Language of Living The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
The Arb The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
And Then This The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006
Trip To Cherokee American Poetry Review, 2006
Fortune Cookie SP Quill, Volume 11, 2006
A Lesson About Boys Hazmat Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2007
A Bedouin Girl On a Hill In Israel Driftwood Review 2008
The End of Sorrow Poetry in performance 36, 2008
Assisted Living RATTLE, Summer 2008
Capitalism South Carolina MARGIE The American Journal of Poetry,
Volume 7, 2008
Row Boat Albatrose, Issue 19, 2008
First Light New Verse News, 2008
A Bedouin Girl On a Hill in Israel Driftwood, Number 9, 2008
Test Trials A & U Magazine, Issue 171, 2009
Postcard of Three Obese, Yet Confident Women… Poetry in Performance, issue 35, 2008
Detroit Rebirth New York Quarterly, 2009
Genuine Artifical Nothing Symbolon, 2009
Father Gone Speakeasy XIX, 2009
Spring Driftwood, Number 10 "Earth"
Decent The Dunes Review, 2010
Cement Ambassador Poetry Project, 2010
Popeye, Returns, You Left, At The Miami University Renaissance City, Issue II, 2010
Key School, Domestic Violence, In My Family My Job Was Controlled Burn, Volume XVI, Spring 2010
Reader’s Write The Sun, April 2007
Contest Awards
The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, 2010 Honorable Mention - Florida, 1969
Jane's Stories, 2010 Honorable Mention - Akko Israel
Tom Howard Prize, 2009 Very Highly Recommended - Assisted Living
Paumanok Poetry Award, 2008 Semi-Finalist (Group of poems)
The Marjorie J. Wilson Award
for Excellence in Poetry, 2008 Finalist – Capitalism South Carolina
Mandy Poetry Contest 2005 Honorable Mention – Trip to Cherokee
The Litchfield Review Series Contest, 2006 First Place - poems based on
the journal of James Kerr
Walrus Press Poetry Contest, 2004 First Place – Welfare In America
Oakland Community College, 2001 First Place Essay - The Plural Form of Water
Conferences
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2002 Jim Daniels
Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2003 Laura Kasischke, Jim Daniels
Witness & Writing, 2002 Matthew Sweeny, Tom Lynch
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2003 Laura Kasischke
Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2003 Bob Hicok, Donald Hall
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2004 Allison Joseph
Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2004 Diane Suess
Witness & Writing, 2005 Bruce Weigl, Jane McCafferty
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2005 Laura Kasischke
Spring Fed Arts, Walloon Tom Lux
Cranbrook Writers’ Guild, 2006 J. Allyn Rosser
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2006 Nancy Eimers
Ludington Weekend Conference, 2007 Nancy Eimers
Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2007 Bob Hicok
Far Field Retreat for Writers, 2007 Jack Ridl
Winter Heat, 2007 Gerry LaFemina
Bear River Writer’s Conference, 2008 Keith Taylor
Summer Sun, 2008 Mary Ann Samyn
Winter Heat, 2008 Gerry LaFemina
Holland Writer’s Retreat, 2008 Jack Ridl
West Coast Writers, 2009 Jack Ridl
AWP Chicago, 2009
Bear River Writer's Conference, 2009 Thomas Lynch
Frostburg Center for Creative Writing (Nightsun) Gerry LaFemina/Barbara Hurd
Holland Writer's Retreat, 2009 Jack Ridl
Spring Heat, 2010 Gerry LaFemina/Jack Driscoll
Spring Fed Arts Weekly Workshops, 2005- Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Creative Writing Courses
Oakland Community College Poetry Peter Stine
Oakland Community College Creative Writing Peter Stine
Oakland Community College Adv. Creative Writing David James
Oakland University Poetry Gladys Cardiff
Oakland University Writing Tools Maureen Dunphy
Oakland University Masters Course- Literary Kinds - Poetry Ed Hoeppner
Ashland University MFA Session I Kathryn Winograd
Ashland University MFA Summer Residency Ruth Schwartz/Peter Campion
Current Work
Instructor OCC Poetry Month Workshops- '07, '08, '09
Common Ground - workshops for young adults
Oak Park Senior Center Memoir Workshops
Oakwood Hospital - Employee Writers
Writer-In-Residence, InsideOut Literary Arts Project (www.insideoutdetroit.org)
Instructor, Springfed Arts Detroit Working Writer (www.springfed.org)
Oakland Community College: Developmental English in-class tutor
Tutor of Political Science ASC
Tutor of English – TEAM Program
Professional Certifications and Degrees
Associates Degree Oakland Community College, 2000
Bachelor of Arts in English/History Oakland University, 2005
CRLA Certification College Reading and Learning Association Tutor, 2007
Master’s Degree Some classes