Janet’s 2018 book – Feathered Dreams: celebrating birds in poems, stories & images
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2019 self-published chapbook – What is the Boiling Point of Clouds? Poems of the Southwest by Faith Kaltenbach, Andi Penner, and Janet Ruth
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Three haiku (!) published in the German journal Chrysanthemum (October 2025); in both English and German.
cornfield stubble
a dissonance of cranes
fills the emptiness
high thin clouds
beneath my feet
this heavy clay
disembodied voices
emerging from fog
the shape of trees
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This haiku was published in Haiku Canada Review (October 2025).
sapsucker drilling
. . . . . . .
around the aspen trunk
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This haiku was published online in tsuri-dōrō (September-October 2025).
pink smoke
in the Apache plume
my neighbor’s burn pile
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My poem “Rohrschach Test,” inspired by my friend Scott Wiggerman’s collage titled “‘Enter Here,” was published online in The Ekphrastic Review on 30 September 2025.
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This senryu was published in modern HAIKU (Autumn 2025)
new road striping
just one more attempt
to keep me in line
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My haibun, “Mother’s Origami,” was published online in Drifting Sands Haibun (September 2025).
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My poem “Pixels,” inspired by my friend Larry Schulte’s collage titled “Letter from the Farm,” was published online in The Ekphrastic Review on 30 August 2025.
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This haiga was published online in contemporary haibun online (August 2025); the haiku words are:
word by word
building scenes
in a long twisted story
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Two winning poems published in ENCORE: 2025 Prize Poems for National Federation of State Poetry Societies. “Bleak” won Second Place in the Alabama State Poetry Society Award (a form poem in which the rules are broken); and “Seduction in Blue” won Third Place in the Marry Collar Memorial Award.
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This haiku was published in modern HAIKU (Summer 2025)
a sharp edge
to spring winds
saying we’re sorry
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One poem, “The Dissatisfaction of Pomegranates,” and one prose piece, “Life History of Jealousy,” were published in GREEN: Anthologies for the World, Vol.1 (Red Penguin Books, 2025).
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My poem “COVID CENTO / CO[R]VID C[U]ENTO” was published online in Oddball Magazine on 14 July 2025.
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This haiku was published online in tsuri-dōrō (July-August 2025)
black-on-black Pueblo pot
two crows harass
a raven
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My haibun, “Honey & Bird Song,” was published online in Wales Haiku Journal (Summer 2025).
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My haibun, “The Details,” was published online in Wales Haiku Journal (Spring 2025).
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The following two haiku/senryu and haiga were published by cattails in the April 2025 issue.
pruning peach trees
still a stretch to reach
my potential
watery sunlight
the tiny blazes
of winter jasmine
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This haiku was published in the Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, a Romanian journal, in Issue 11, April 2025.
fumbling under
desert willow petticoats
a bumblebee
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These two monoku were published in Cold Moon Journal on 10 April 2025.
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“Flammable,” a haibun, was published in contemporary haibun online, (Vol. 21.1, April 2025).
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Two pieces, “Shadows Toss & Turn,” a haibun, and “The Gopher Snake: Reflections on Mercy,” a prose piece, were published by Women Raise Our Voices e-zine in the Spring 2025 issue, Nurturing in a Time of Chaos.
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Two rengay, “December Prayers” and “Wherever We Can Find It,” written with fellow poets Scott Wiggerman and j. rap, were published in print issue of Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 2025.
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These two haiku were published by Cold Moon Journal on 25 February 2025.
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“Monsoon” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 19 February 2025.
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“Urban Harvest,” a rengay written with fellow poets Scott Wiggerman and j. rap, was published in Cold Moon Journal on 2 February 2025.
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Three poems, “Stumbling Through the Labyrinth,” “A World That Shimmers” and “The Dark Queen” were published by The Nature of Our Times, on their on-line Gallery in January 2025. In addition, “Stumbling Through the Labyrinth” was selected to be included in the print anthology, The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (to be released in fall 2025 from Paloma Press).
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“Glimmer,” a pantoum, was read at the 27th Annual Winter Solstice Poetry Reading, “Lighting Our Candle of Peace” at the Placitas Presbyterian Church, Placitas, NM on 22 December 2024 and published in an associated chapbook by the same name (first poem in the book).
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“Sparklers, Pinwheels and Roman Candles,” a haibun, was published in Women Raise Our Voices (Fall 2024 – Sparks).
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“Eclipse,”a sestina, was published in ABQ InPrint 8 (2024).
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This haiku and the following haiga were published in the Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal (Issue 9: August 2024); a journal from Romania.
windless day
skipping stones through
tree reflections
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This haiku was published in Presence (July 2024); a British haiku journal.
wet brush
dragged across the ink stone
a smear of cloud
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The haibun “A Querulous Song” was published in the Wales Haiku Journal (Summer 2024). Click on the link to that issue; scroll down in the TofC and click on the Haibun section; mine is the 4th.
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“This Lighter Load” won 2nd prize in the Alabama State Poetry Society Award and “Pieces of Heaven” won 2nd Prize in the William Stafford Memorial Award, which was particularly wonderful because it is a glosa using lines from one of William’s poems.
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Two haiku published in Under the Bashō (June 2024).
sprawl of barbed wire
the grasshopper sparrow’s
scratchy song
turning my face
to soak up the sun
Swainson’s hawk soaring
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“Mirror Image of a Moment” was published in the San Pedro River Review (Vol. 16, No. 1; Spring 2024).
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This haiku was published in the Poets’ Picnic: a celebration of nature, calligraphy, music & poetry (May 2024).
dust devil
augurs up toward the sun
one waxed feather
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“Yosa and The Crows,” a series of golden shovels based on haiku and paintings by Yosa Buson, haiku master, was published in The Ekphrastic Review on 2 May 2024.
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The haibun “Oceans of Light” was published in cattails journal (April 2024).
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The haibun “Lost Mitten” was published in Wales Haiku Journal (Spring 2024).
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These two haiku were published in the Akitsu Quarterly Spring/Summer 2024 Issue.
flicker
of rabbit fear
the snake’s black tongue
first water
in the acequia
winter drains away
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A haibun, “Weekend at Big Foot Cabin Near Jemez Springs,” was published in KAPOW!: an anthology of short stories, non-fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photography that pays tribute to superheroes in the media (Red Penguin Press, 2023).
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One haiku and one monoku published in Cold Moon Journal April 2024.
fresh-cut-grass smell
at twelve, reading Nancy Drew
in the tree house
too much bad news brewing a cup of tea
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“Golden Ratio” was published in the Fixed and Free Quarterly (Vol. 3, Issue 1; March 2024).
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The haibun, “Cryptic: elegy for the dusky seaside sparrow” was published in drifting sands haibun, Issue 26 (March 2024)
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Two poems, “The Beast” and “Ways of Breathing,” were published in the Winter 2024 Issue (Lifting Our Spirits in Chaotic Times) of Women Raise Our Voices. Scroll down and click on individual links.
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This haiku was published in Modern Haiku, Issue 55:1 (Winter 2023-24).
last cottonwood leaves
remaking the bed
with flannel sheets
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The haibun, “What They Don’t Tell You,” was published by Wales Haiku Journal in their Winter 2023/2024 Issue. In the Table of Contents click on “Haibun” and scroll down to pages 64-65 for the haibun.
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My ekphrastic haibun, “Stone Oracle,” won Honorable Mention in the drifting sands haibun‘s 2nd Annual Rachel Sutcliffe Memorial Haiku-arts Contest – Issue 25.
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These two haiku were published in tsuri-dōrō January-February 2024 Issue.
delinquent notes
slip between the keys
piano lesson
Grammy’s quilt —
the double wedding ring’s
frayed edges
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This haiku was published by Under the Bashō in December 2023
tattered prayer flags
milkweed pods release
seeds on silk
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Three haibun, “Never the Same River Twice,” “Bathtub. No Shower.” and “Just a Single Star” were published in Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2023 issue. Scroll down to the Haibun section in the TofC.
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“Red is the Number of My Heart,” an ekphrastic sestina was published on 19 November 2023 by Tiny Seed Literary Journal.
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This haiku was published in the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Autumn/Winter 2023-2024 Issue.
first frost tonight
grasshopper launches into
the sound of absence
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“Breathing Like a Tree,” a haibun, was published in Drifting Sands Haibun, Issue 24 (November 2023). Click on the link for the appropriate issue and scroll through the TofC for my name/haibun.
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“When It Flies Away” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 31 October 2023.
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This haiku was published in the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal‘s Special Halloween Issue 2023. Click on that link in the archives to read the full issue. My haiku reprinted below.
waiting
for a candle and a grin
pumpkins in the field
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This haiku was published in Chrysanthemum‘s October 2023 Issue. Click on “current issue” or (later) “archives” and click on the link for that issue and scroll down, alphabetical by last name.
taking a slice
out of summer heat
watermelon
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This “painted lady haiga” was published in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 15 October 2023.
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Eric Holtan (True Concord founder and Music Director), Janet Ruth (winning poet), and Nicholas Ryan Kelly (winning Stephen Paulus Emerging Composer for 2023)
“A World That Shimmers,” a sonnet, won the inaugural 2023 True Concord Voices Poetry Contest. The national call for submissions asked for a poem about how music brings us together. True Concord Voices & Orchestra is a Grammy Award-winning professional chamber choir and orchestra. Part of the contest award was to have her winning poem set to music by True Concord’s 2023 winning Stephen Paulus Emerging Composer, Nicholas Ryan Kelly. Janet traveled to Tucson, AZ in October to attend the premier performances of this piece, also titled “A World That Shimmers,” by the True Concord Voices, piano and cello (October 13, 14 and 15).
Quote from AZ Daily Star review (Cathalena Burch) 15 October 2023: “. . . the world premiere of American-born Canadian composer Nicholas Ryan Kelly’s sublimely beautiful “A World That Shimmers,” a piece True Concord commissioned from Kelly after he won the ensemble’s annual Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition. Kelly set to the music the text of New Mexico poet Janet Ruth’s poem of the same name that won True Concord’s inaugural poetry competition. The complementary melodic voices of Buchholz’s cello and pianist Alexander Tenster accompanied the 24-voice choir as they sang about building bridges by celebrating diversity and standing united.“
Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvMAADYCpc for a “score video” of this piece on Nicholas Kelly’s youtube channel.
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“Footprints & Traces,” a haibun, was published in cattails, October 2023 issue(p. 132 in the PDF).
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“Unburying Wonder,” a golden shovel, was published in Blue Heron Review, Issue 17 (Fall 2023).
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“To the Desert Spring Wind” was published in New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023, Eds. Levi Romero and Michelle Otero (Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2023).
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“Backseat DMZ,” a haibun, was published in Drifting Sands Haibun, Issue 23 (September 2023). Click on the appropriate link for the PDF and scroll through the TofC for my name/haibun.
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“Suddenly,” a golden shovel written from a famous Basho haiku was published in Under the Basho on 22 September 2023.
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This haiku was published in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 31 August, 2023.
last year’s
remnant sycamore balls
earth hangs by a thread
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This haiku was published on 30 August 2023 in Cold Moon Journal.
unearthing
ruins of darkness
badger’s toothy grin
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This found poem, “What If?” was published in the August 2023 Issue of Unlost: Journal of Found Poetry & Art. Click on Janet’s name/poem title to get to the poem. CELEBRATION: Unlost nominated this poem for a Pushcart Award!
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This “looking back” haiga was published by Under the Basho on 24 August 2023.
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“A Fine Kettle of Poem-Fish” won Second Place in the NFSPS Winners’ Circle Award and “Alchemy,” a pantoum, won 1st Place in the Morton D. Prouty & Elsie S. Prouty Memorial Award. Both were published in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies ENCORE Prize Poems 2023. “A Fine Kettle of Poem Fish” was also published in the December 2023 Issue of Fixed and Free Quarterly; it also won 1st Place in the New Mexico Press Women 2024 Communications Contest for a Single Poem and a prize (TBA) from the National Federation of Press Woman 2024.
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“Weedy Cameos,” and associated photo were published on 22 June 2023 by Tiny Seed Literary Journal.
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Two poems, “A Midsummer Day’s Dream” and “The Door to Night is Ajar,” a villanelle, were published in the anthology Poetry Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southern Arizona Press, summer 2023).
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In partnership with Scott Wiggerman and Claire Vogel Camargo, our rengay “Midnight” was published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Frogpond.
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My haibun, “Can You Hear Me Now?” was published in the May 2023 (Issue 21) of Drifting Sands.
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This haiga was published on 11 May 2023 in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal.
locoweed blooms
against a south-facing wall
March madness
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The following senryu was published in April 2023 in Issue 89, an ekphrastic senryu-themed issue of failed haiku–a journal of English senryu. It was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun” (November 1889, Saint Remy).
beneath this sun
even my shadow is twisted
the shredding wind
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The following haiku was published in Bird Whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of Bird Haiku, Senryu, & Short Poems (bottle rockets press, 2023).
quetzal feathers
trailed across the sky
perhaps I shouted
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This haiga was published in the April 2023 issue of cattails. The haiku portion printed here:
hanging
like sadness
bright memories
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“Walking Sonnet” and “Lot’s Wife” were published in Glissando! 2023 New Mexico State Poetry Society Anthology.
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This haiga was published in April 2023 in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal.
tumbling
end-over-end
her wild thoughts
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In partnership with Scott Wiggerman and Claire Vogel Camargo, our kasen renga, “Three Hearts: A Summer Kasen” was published on 21 April 2023 in Under the Basho.
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Three haibun, “Breathe,” “Mabel’s Guests,” and “Waiting for the Sun” were published in the anthology Unknotting the Line: the Poetry in Prose (Dos Gatos Press, 2023).
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“Headed Now for Home. Look! We Can See the Light Ahead,” a partial cento in memory of Mary Dudley, and “Splintered” were published in the March 2023 (Vol. 2, Issue 1) of Fixed and Free Quarterly.
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The following senryu was published in the Spring 2023 issue of Wales Haiku Journal.
strains of music
drawn from cello strings
my sister’s surgery
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In partnership with Scott Wiggerman and Claire Vogel Camargo, our rengay “Open Heart” was published by Drifting Sands in Issue 19 (January 2023)
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“tumbleweed” and “In my dream” haiku published by Cold Moon Journal on January 2, 2023
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“Twice” was read and then published in Touching Silver, the publication of the 25th Anniversary
Winter Solstice Poetry Reading in Placitas, NM on 17 December 2022.
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“The Amazons,” an ekphrastic poem after Frida Kahlo’s painting “Me and My Parrots) (1941) was published in the December 2022 (Vol. 1, Issue 4) of Fixed and Free Quarterly.
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My haibun “oojah” was published in Contemporary Haibun Online Issue 18.3 in December 2022.
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“Plow the World for Planting” a rondelet, was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 3 November 2022. It was subsequently included in Plant Your Words Anthology (Tiny Seed Press, 2023). This poem won First Place for a Single Poem in the New Mexico Press Women 2023 Communications Contest, and went on to also win First Place for a Single Poem in the National Federation of Press Women 2023 contest.
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“datura bloom” haiku published in the October 2022 issue (page 29) of cattails. Reprinted here:
datura bloom
a hawkmoth unfurls her tongue
into moonlight
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This haiku was published in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on October 3, 2022.
fisherman bat
unzips the river
scales rise in moonlight
*fisherman bat is also known as greater bulldog bat
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“The Polar Bear Speaks Last” was published in Fixed and Free Quarterly (Vol. 1, Issue 3), September 2022.
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“Trick of Light,” a golden shovel from lines in Eva Saulitas’ poem “Prayer 45,” won 1st place in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies’ NFSPS Board Award and was published in NFSPS Encore: prize poems 2022.
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“Invisible Before Us Untouched and Still Possible” won a Laureates’ Choice Award at the 2022 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, July 2022. Click the contest link for a flip-book containing all the winning sonnets.
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In partnership with Scott Wiggerman and Claire Vogel Camargo, our rengay “Scent of Rain” was published by Drifting Sands in Issue 16 (July 20220>
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“Anniversary at Sugarite State Park in Autumn,” a kasen renga, was published in the Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 14 July 2022.
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This senryu was published in Prune Juice: Journal of English Senryu & Related Forms, Issue 37, July 2022.
twenty years
after the day before
what we did not know
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“Navigating in the Dark” and “Instructions for Writing a Poem in Phosphorescent Ink” were published in Wood Cat Review in July 2022. Unfortunately, this lovely journal has subsequently closed.
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“Blown” (a sonnet) and “Pollinating the Sun” (a sestina) were published in Fixed and Free Quarterly (Vol. 1, Issue 2), June 2022.
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This haiku was published in Scarlet Dragonfly Journal on 27 June 2022.
anthem of bees
desert sumac hums
by the back gate
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“Scorpionweed” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 24 June 2022.
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This haiku was published on 29 May 2022 in Cold Moon Journal.
birthday gift
my sixty-fifth chance
to get it right
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“So Many Seeds” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 20 May 2022.
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This haiku was published in the 2022 Poets’ Picnic chapbook.
winter sky
not even the lining
is silver
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Three poems — “Houses of Bones,” Nightingale’s Song,” and “Sonnet for a Ukrainian Child” — were published in Red Penguin’s anthology Where Flowers Bloom: poems and essays of strength, hope and resilience (2022). All the money from sales of this book goes to supporting Ukrainians. https://redpenguinbooks.com/where-flowers-bloom-poems-and-essays-of-strength-hope-and-resilience/
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The following haiku was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Wales Haiku Journal.
armfuls of moonlight
I want to know the name
of this tree
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The haiga (above – with Janet’s artwork from a sumi-e brush class last summer) and the following two haiku were published in the Spring 2022 issue of Akitsu Journal.
red mesa wedge
between sage and sky
the earth split open
wrong hue
for surrender
last geranium
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“Scar” was published in the inaugural issue of Fixed and Free Quarterly (Vol. 1, Issue 1), March 2022.
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“Houses of Bones,” and this collage above of the same title, were published in Oddball Magazine on 7 March 2022. This same collage and poem were published again by Ekphrastic Review on 30 September 2022.
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This haiku was published in Cold Moon Journal on 23 February 2022.
bird tracks
like hieroglyphics
untranslated
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“Dancing in the Dark” was read at the 2021 Winter Solstice Candlelight Poetry Reading in Placitas, NM on 19 December 2021 and subsequently published in the associated chapbook Dancing in Darkness to Carry the Light. The chapbook can be downloaded at this site http://www.lasplacitaschurch.org/ministries/winter-solstice-poetry
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“Shimmer” (and my associated photograph of Couch’s Spadefoot tadpoles) were published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 17 December 2021.
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“Dark River” was published in Anthology Forest: a collection of poems honoring the forest by Tiny Seed Literary Journal (2021).
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A jointly-written rengay “Beside a Fountain” (written by Janet Ruth, Scott Wiggerman and Claire Vogel Camargo) was published in Tandem: The Rengay Journal in October 2021.
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“Pear Wood” – a sestina — was published in the Fall 2021 Issue (Offerings of Compassion) of the Blue Heron Review.
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“Sacred Datura” was selected as a finalist in the 2021 Fischer Prize poetry contest held by Talking Gourds Poetry Program (Telluride Institute); the guest judge was Donald Levering, Santa Fe.
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“Across the Great Divide” was published in Diane Lockward’s new book The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft ( Terrapin Books, 2021) as an example poem for one of the prompts.
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Four poems — “Fireflies,” “Ode to Corrales NM at a Change of Seasons,” “Sparrow Lady,” and “Lucille and Ruby” were published in the Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2021 (publisher/editor – Billy Brown). In addition, two collaborative poems by her writing group — The Prickly Peers — were also published in the anthology — “Prickly” and “Six Ways of Reading Eudora Welty.”
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This haiku was published in the Summer 2021 Issue of Wales Haiku Journal.
tattered moth wings
against the window pane
my father’s mind
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“Dust and Blood” was selected as Honorable Mention/Contributor (finalist) in the TulipTree Review 2021 Wild Woman Contest and published in the Spring/Summer 2021 Issue.
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“Bright Feathers in Moonlight” – an ekphrastic poem after the painting “Woman with Blue Parrot” (Josef Maria Auchentaller, 1949) – was a finalist in the Bird Watching Contest held by The Ekphrastic Review in May 2021. You can scroll down on the contest finalist page to find my poem and the artwork it is tied to.
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“Deliverance” and “Dark River” were published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 26 April 2021 and 21 July 2021 respectively.
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“Stealing Fire” was published in the anthology MOVING IMAGES: Poetry Inspired by Film (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications, 2021).
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Janet was a featured reader on the monthly (26 January 2021) KAKTUS Poetry Reading Series hosted by Jules’ Poetry Playhouse. Click HERE for a link to the Youtube recording.
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“Aurora Borealis Ghazal” was published in House of Cards: Ekphrastic Poetry, 3rd edition (Poetry Playhouse Publications, 2021). All the poems were written to the art of Denise Weaver Ross. This poem was written to Denise’s painting titled “Aurora Borealis” (right hand picture).
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“Winter Solstice Rising II” was read during the Winter Solstice Candlelight Poetry Reading on 20 December 2020 in Placitas, NM, and published in the chapbook, Night Songs within the Great Pause (2020).
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“Into Being” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 19 December 2020.
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“Slipping Through My Fingers,” “Looney Tunes Sestina,” and “Sharing Solitude” were published in Sestina Troubadours: Writing in the Labyrinth (Poetry Playhouse Publications, 2020). This anthology was a Finalist for the 2021 AZ/NM Book Award in Poetry.
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“Counting Backward Toward Before” was published in the anthology, New Mexico Remembers 9/11 (Artemesia Publishing, LLC, 2020).
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“What I Remember,” an ekphrastic poem after “Old Woman Saying Grace” by Nicolaes Maes (above, right) was published in The Ocotillo Review‘s Summer 2020 issue.
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“Metamorphosis: A Little Death” was published in Tiny Seed Journal in August 2020 as part of their theme on pollinators.
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This video of Janet reading her poem “Gold” is posted on the Adventure Poetry Channel, 2 June 2020. It was created by Seadog Studios and Steve Sanders; they added the images and music to a recording of me reading my poem at the National Federation of State Poetry Societies annual convention in Santa Fe in June 2019. “Gold” was initially published in my book — Feathered Dreams: celebrating birds in poems, stories & images (2018, Mercury HeartLink).
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“Third Heart” and “Desert Poet Invocation” were published in Offerings for the Journey: Poems for Stewart S. Warren (Poetry Playhouse Publications, 2020).
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“The Door to Night is Ajar” was published in Sin Fronteras Volume 24, 2020.
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“Boneyard Rising” was published in 22 Poems & a Prayer for El Paso (Dos Gatos Press, 2020)
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“Dream of Trees” was published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal on 16 March 2020.
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“Homage to W. S. Merwin: Glosa in Six Voices Based on “The Solstice” , a collaborative poem with Janet’s Albuquerque Prompt Group, was published in Unlost: Journal of Found Poetry & Art Issue #20 in February 2020. It also includes a collage (at left) that Janet created with images and lines from the poem.
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“Butcher Bird” was published in fall 2019 in Spiral Orb, Volume 15 Literary Inventory of Organ Mountains/Desert Peaks
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“My Mother’s Garden” was published in Fall 2019 in Santa Fe Literary Review, Vol. 14.
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“The Plunge” was published in Loon Magic and Other Night Sounds anthology (Outrider Press, 2019).
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“extra words” haiku published in 2019 Poets’ Picnic: a celebration of Nature, Calligraphy, Music & Poetry, Open Space Visitor Center.
extra words drift
away like autumn leaves —
writing haiku
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“Various Forms of Happiness” (an erasure poem using lines from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) was published in May in Unlost: Journal of Found Poetry & Art, Vol. #17.
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In May 2019, recordings of Janet reading four of her poems — “Moving,” “On a Rio Grande Oxbow in Autumn,” “Shimmer,” and “The Universe is Expanding” — were included in the new Telepoem Booth at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center in Santa Fe, NM.
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“Flying” was published in February 2019 in The Ekphrastic Review.
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“Caregiver” and “Lights Out” published in Missing Persons: reflections on dementia, edited by Deb Coy (Beatlick Press, 2019).
“The Flower of Her Amazement” (a cento in homage to Mary Oliver) first published in Unlost: Journal of Found Poetry & Art, 2 December 2018. Posted on the NaturePoem list-serve on 23 January 2019.
“This Season and What is Alive” published in Manzano Mountain Review, Winter 2018
“Out of the Park,” “Beachhead,” and “The List“
published in Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2018
edited by Billy Brown
“first coyote” published in The Heron’s Nest, September 2018.
first coyote’s
wild ululation
then there were ten
“What Lies Beneath” published in The Ekphrastic Review, 29 June 2018.
“raven” and “yellow petals” published in 2018 Poets’ Picnic
raven shouts coal-black thoughts
can’t get no satisfaction
yellow petals fly
goldfinch reaps sunflower’s
black heart
“Blue River (Rio Chama) – a Word Painting” published in The Ekphrastic Review, 27 February 2018.
“Arson” published in bird’s thumb, June 2017 issue
“Las Desaparecidas en Albuquerque” published in Santa Fe Literary Review, 2017
“Canticle to Change,” “Metamorphoses,” and “Safety” published in VALUE: Essays, Stories & Poems by Women of a Certain Age, Beatlick Press 2017
[NOTE: artwork in “Metamorphoses” is by Janet Ruth]
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“marigolds” and “night fills” published in A Poets Picnic 2017
marigolds
pungent in my thoughts
do not forget us
night fills with
spadefoot toad syncopation
monsoon hip-hop
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“autumn” published in Earthsigns, 2017.
autumn beneath sycamores
fallen stars litter the ground
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“Waiting” and “Like a Prayer” published in WATER: a Poets Speak Anthology, 2017, Beatlick Press, and Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications.
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“wilderness” published in Wilderness: land untrammeled, 2017.
wilderness
windswept spaces
with feral dreams
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“Owl Dreams” published jointly online in Grey Sparrow Journal, and hardcopy Snow Jewel, Winter 2016-2017, both Grey Sparrow Press.
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“Swift Angels” published in HERS: a Poets Speak Anthology, 2017.
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Redstarts & Ravens 