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Poetry happens when I respond to sights, experiences, thoughts, emotions: if it feels like

poetry—if there's a certain deep stirring insidechances are I will try to capture it in lyrical language.

 

I get first drafts down as quickly as possible—or at least phrases if I'm on a walk, or pulled over at the side of a country road.

 

Later, I enjoy revision, reading aloud to hear the sound of the words, to find stumbling blocks, and to experiment with language and form.

 

I am grateful to have a wonderful group of poets with whom to share the process.

                     

  • “Journey”, The Orchards Poetry Journal (Kelsay), Summer 2025

  • “Winter Dawn”, Ascendancy (prev. pub. in The Dirigible Balloon, 1.2020)

  • “Maybe My First Conversation With My Mother”, Ascendancy 

  • “Some Kind of Birth”, Ascendancy

  • “Spring Prairie Grass Speaks”, Peninsula Arts Magazine, Spring 2025

  • “I Saw a Woman in the Michigan Sky”, Peninsula Arts Magazine, Spring 2025

  • “Because We Don’t Walk on Red Anymore”, Cacti Fur, June 2025

  • “The Wild Horse Ponders the Concept of Home”, Cacti Fur, June 2025

  • “Once Upon a Dancer”, Cacti Fur, June 2025

  • “Stuff on the Road”, Cacti Fur, June 2025

  • “What My Mother Could Do”, Cacti Fur, June 2025

  • “Hidden Sunrise”, The Gilded Weathervane, February 2025

  • “I’ve Come to Notice”, The Gilded Weathervane, February 2025

  • “Spring Chorus”, The Gilded Weathervane, February 2025

  • “In the Midst of Too Much,” AROHO WAVES, January 2024

  • “Conundrum”, Ekphrastic Review Challenge, January 21, 2025

  • “Mother Visits”, Paddler Press, December 2024

  • “Forever Shiva” and “Dayenu”, Of the Book, November 2024

  • "Bossy", Little Free Lit Mag, September 2024

  • "Longing", Ekphrastic Review Challenge, September 2024

  • “Autumn (Prairie) Turning”, The Gilded Weathervane, September 2024

  • “Winter Corn”, The Gilded Weathervane, September 2024

  • “I’m Not David”, Synkroniciti, July 2024

  • “The Time of the Pink Soft Bathrobe”, The Orchards Review, July 2024

  • “Sassy Spring Song”, “Falling in Love with Winter (IL-137)”, “The Night the Opera Singer…” Prolific Pulse Press CADENCE Anthology, June 21, 2024

  • “Order of Dreams”, The Ekphrastic Review Challenge, May 17, 2024

  • "Klezmer", Poetry NI+ Holocaust Memorial Day Edition, February 2023

  • “Advice From a Piranha Who Lives in Manaus, Brazil”, Birmingham Arts Journal, December 2021

  • “Bits of the World in Verse”, Birmingham Arts Journal, December 2021

  • “719 Lombard”, Capsule Stories, Autumn 2021

  • “Late Autumn Prairie Grass”, Capsule Stories, Autumn 2021

  • “Just So You Know”, MATTER Anthology, Oprelle Publications, December 2020

  • “Security Guard at the Early Childhood Center”, Otherwise Engaged, May 2020. 

  • “Dangerous Memory”, Otherwise Engaged, May 2020. 

  • “First Kiss”, Otherwise Engaged, May 2020. 

  • “He Was Dying and I Was ‘Fat’”, Otherwise Engaged, May 2020. 

  • “I Know Those People”, Otherwise Engaged, May 2020. 

  • “We Danced”, A Moment of Your Time Podcast, May 2020.

  • “Beyond Chicago”, Red Coyote, May 2020.

  • “A Man Was Here”, The Write City Magazine (Chicago Writers Association), October 2019.

  • “Weigh Day”, The Write City Magazine (Chicago Writers Association), October 2019.

  • “How to Recite a Poem”, The Write City Magazine (Chicago Writers Association), October 2019.

  • “Winter Prairie Grass”, West Texas Literary Review, Spring 2019.

  • “After Shiva”, “The Last Moment”, and “Israelites Like Butterflies”, 2018 Mizmor Anthology December 2018.

  • “Sixteen”, Silver Birch Press April 2015.

  • “Deborah Voigt Does Broadway Show Tunes”, The Lake Winter 2014.

  • "This is Your Azalea”, Broad! Winter 2014.

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In October 2019 I drove from Skokie to Peoria driving to the Illinois Reading Council conference to work at the SCBWI table.

The autumn fields of Illinois opened

on either side of me as I drove alone,

with windows down.

My heart swelled with love

for my state and the prairie and farm land.

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