WRITING
To The Woman Who Lost Her Children That Day
(The Coil Magazine - Publication Forthcoming)
“Just beyond your mangled car, upside down in the shaded stream bed, was a dump truck that had lost its brakes coming down the hill - ten black wheels still spinning in the air.”
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Questioning The Silence
(Open: Journal of Arts & Letters - April 2019)
“As a little girl, I knew could trick the whole world when I closed my eyes. I would stay very still and the world - I was sure - thought I was sleeping. My long, black lashes covered the open slits through which I peeked, searching for whatever it was I wasn’t supposed to see. .”
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To The Albanian Man Leading His Cows Across Traffic
(Apt Magazine - November 2018 - Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
“Reign of communist terror. Reign of civil war. Reign of brazen corruption. If it keeps on reigning, we might all get washed away.”
HISTORIC BOOKS & PROJECTS
THE PLACE I CALL HOME:
How Abolition and the Underground Railroad
Shaped the Communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania
(for The Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, Montrose PA)
Project Coordinator, Copy Writer, Exhibit & Book Co-Designer
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WARRIOR ROAD:
The Story of Sullivan's March Across Pennsylvania
Before the Invasion of the Iroquois Homelands
(with The Luzerne County Historical Society & Luzerne County Visitors Bureau)
Project Manager, Co-Author, Guide Copy, Guide Design
OTHER SAMPLES
Sailing
(Personal Narrative)
"They pull up to the stoplight the way a small bird alights on a branch.”
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Cover Copy: "Fifteen Stones"
(Back Cover of "Fifteen Stones" by Craig Czury)
“It is a magnetic web of words, woven from fish scales, seaweed, handlebars and tire treads, reaching across an ephemeral geography between coast lines and chalk lines."
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Cafe Domenica, Utica NY
(Brief Review)
“...outsider art, insider photos, tangle of words, tangle of plants, hypnotic aroma of coffee, tantric displays of tea leaves...”
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Make Ready The Magical Critters Ball
(In Memoriam - Barbara Remington)
"...finding ourselves in a buoyant, limitless plane of mischief, magic, and friendship.”
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We're Still Here
(Poem for Korçë Poetry Festival, Korçë Albania)
"...an entire world feeding on the muffled cries of the once innocent.”
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Underbelly
(Personal Reflection in midst of Natural Gas Fracking)
"Like gas flares, perhaps poems are best birthed in the dark...”
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