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.
-
"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
-
“Egret Peers Into a Pond”, Nap Lit, July 5, 2024
-
“And Then One Morning”, Nap Lit, July 5, 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
-
“The Frost-Edged Leaf Has Something to Say About Age Bias”, Loch Raven Review, April 2024
-
“The Baby as Prayer as the Morning Begins”, Loch Raven Review, April 2024
-
“Greeting”, Jewish Writing Project, April 2024
-
"If I Can Make it There", Writing in a Woman's Voice, July 2023
-
"Regret of a Golden Kind", Writing in a Woman's Voice, July 2023
-
"Something About the Rugalach", Jewish Writing Project,
-
"Klezmer", Poetry NI+ Holocaust Memorial Day Edition, February 2023
-
“Just So You Know”, “This is Where I Parked”, “Georgia”, “What it Was Supposed to Be”, and “The First Night”, Bloom, July 2022 (excerpt from Call Me Bob, unpublished)
-
“Footprints Trimeric”, Ground, May 2022
-
“Surprise on the Tollway Enroute to New York”, Bluebird Word, June 2022
-
“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.
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.