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"A painting works only on the edge of not working.

Then what is ungraspable comes near."

- Kaz Tanahashi.

Recognition:

"Curlers," Finalist, 2026 Mountain West Writer's Contest, Western Humanities Review.

"Not My Darkness," Finalist, Northwest Review Prize.
"Metabolic," Finalist, Punt Volat Award for Poetry
"Postcards to Ilya Kaminsky," Finalist, La Piccioleta Barca Competition

"Mississippi/Minnesota," Wundor Editions Award for Innovative Poetry

"Brother on the Bridge," Semi-finalist, Telluride Institute.

Publication, most described in blog posts, with links:

​[Upcoming: Evergreen Review, Comstock Review]

Cider Press Review, Chicago Review, Atmospheric Quarterly, Pine Row Poetry, River Heron Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, KHÔRA, Isele Quarterly, Asymptote, Thalia Magazine, Alternating Currents , Northern Colorado Writers Anthology, Fourth River Review, Stonecoast Review, The Bombay Gin, and The Art of Fungi Magazine. 

 

Several others have appeared in columns by Art Goodtimes in The Telluride Watch, and anthologized by The Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds Stories and Poems.

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