Ode for an Absent Student

Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi-Finalist

2020 Naugatuck River Review

2020

Smiling at the Executioner

Pushcart Prize Nominee 2020

2020 Sky Island Journal

2020

Afterlives

Featured in Verse Daily - 2024

2020 Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts

2020

Ode for an Ode on a Grecian Urn

2019 Folio Editor's Prize - Winner

2019 Folio

2019

Bad Apology

Also featured in March 2020 #Tbt

2017 SWWIM

2017

Sugaring

Robert Frost Award - 2014 Finalist

2016 Naugatuck River Review

2016

The Bath

Narrative Poetry Contest - Semi-Finalist

2014 Naugatuck River Review

2014

Amber Alert

New South Writing Contest - Winner

2013 new south: Georgia St. Univ. Journal

2013

At the Grieving Parents Meeting

Rita Dove Poetry Award - Semi Finalist

2012 River Styx

2012

Bingo Night for Missing and Exploited Children

Blue Room Collective - "Grabbed Anthology"

2012 The Adirondack Review

2012

The Arrangement

Robert Frost Award - First Runner Up

2012 Beauty/Truth: Ekphrastic Poetry

2012

Catharsis

Erskine J. Poetry Prize - Finalist

2012 Smartish Pace

2012

1-800-THE-LOST

2011 American Poet Prize - Winner

2011 American Poetry Journal

2011

The Retrieval

Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award - Special Merit

2008 Comstock Review

2008

The Rescue

Muriel Craft Bailey Award - Special Merit

2008 Comstock Review

2008

Museum

Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award

2008 Comstock Review

2008

The Rape of Chryssipus

Spoon River Editors' Prize - Winner

2007 Spoon River Poetry Review

2007

Odalisque

Muriel Craft Bailey Award - Finalist

2006 Comstock Review

2006

Sanriku

Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award - Winner

2006 Willow Springs

2006

On Recognizing Saints

Annie Finch Prize - Winner

2005 National Poetry Review

2005

Against Elegies

Featured in Verse Daily

2004 National Poetry Review

2004

Beginner's Mind

From the book "Advantages of Believing"

1978 Williams College Archives

1978

On Rewinding

Emerson Original Poetry Award - Winner

1974 Emerson College Review

1974