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      Many thanks to
The Writer's Almanac 
  for featuring
     "The Sound of It" &
"The Second Music" &   "The Hundred Names of Love" &
​
"On This Date"    


Many thanks to Lincoln Center for including "The Second Music" in their program for Bach's Goldberg Variations , played by Kit Armstrong
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​                       Reviews

       Review of  Iron String  by A. Molotkov
       Review of Iron String by Kasey Jueds
       Review of Iron String  by Michael Dennis       
       Review of Iron String  by Sarah Marshall
       Review of Iron String  by Portland Book Review
                                         *     *     *
   "Old Tapestry" chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye
 for inclusion in the Poems for Patience project 
     at Galway University Hospitals in Ireland 
                                     *     *     *
               Interview with Oregon Arts Watch's 
                                Judith Pulman
                                     *     *     *
"The Hundred Names of Love" is included in the new anthology Healing the Divide:  Poems of Kinship and Connection  from Green Writers Press
 
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       "A Cure Against Poisonous Thought"
featured on The Singing Bowl:  Poems for the Soul
                                    *     *     *
"Sown" is included in the new poetry textbook Listening to Poetry to be published in 2020
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           Carve Magazine   nominated new poems 
                   "Hay" and "The Night is Large"
                            for a Pushcart Prize
​                                     *     *     *
                      "Conditions of Happiness"
               now out in the new anthology  
              Come Shining:  Essays and Poems
                                 on Writing in a Dark Time

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             Interview with Carve Magazine 
                                    *     *     *
                "
The Hundred Names of Love"
      chosen for inclusion in New Zealand's 
                  Poems in the Waiting Room 
                                     *     *     *
                        Late Night Library's 
                        Late Night Conversation:  
                A Reading with Annie Lighthart 
                               and Kasey Jueds 
                                    (podcast)
                                    *     *     *
      "The Sound of It" featured in The Oregonian
                                           *     *     *
Verse Daily
 kindly featured the following poems:
        "The Gallery" and "There Were Horses"   
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                           News

                                A new book! 
                             Fernwood Press
                               will be publishing
                                                 Pax
                               August 2020
               (Thank you Fernwood Press!)

                                       *     *     *              
                                          Lantern: 
    The second edition from Wells College Press
     is now available through Wells College Press
                          or Amazon
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                     *     *     *
     "The Second Music"    
        is included in the   
   powerful and beautiful 
                anthology
    of mindfulness poems:
             Poetry of Presence 
                   *     *     *    
             
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​                   The first edition of Lantern, 
​               published by Wells College Press
              as a letterpress-printed, hand-sewn,
                 numbered edition of 150 copies,
                                       is now sold out. 
                 (Thank you for the beautiful book
                                  Wells College Press)

                                      *    *     *
                    "The Kindness of the Cello"
            has been chosen for publication in
      New Zealand's Poems in the Waiting Room   project.  This wonderful Arts-in-Health charity
     sends out 8000 copies of poems to hospitals,                     hospices, nursing homes, prisons,
                               and medical clinics
                       throughout New Zealand.

​                                     *     *     *
        "The Second Music" has been  turned 
                    into an amazing choral work
​                           with cello and piano
                        by c
omposer Dan Cook
​                                   *     *     *
       "Old Tapestry" chosen for inclusion in 
         These Trees, an anthology of remarkable
                  tree photographs and poems
                            published July 2017
​                                   *     *     *
        Poems "Peace" and "Vision" published
  in New Madrid  Journal's  issue "Imagining Peace"
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               "Public Singing" published in
  Iron Horse Literary Review's  "State of the Union"                issue focusing on union and unity
​                                   *     *     *
                       "The Second Music"
            presented in A Year of Being Here:  
                        Daily Mindfulness Poetry

                                    *     *     *
                       New poem "Guest List"
 selected by Portland Public Parks to be featured
     on the Multnomah Arts Center Poetry Post
                               October 2015
                                       *     *     *
            Interview with Late Night Library's
                                      Rookie Report
                                     *     *     *
               "The Hundred Names of Love" 
  nominated for a Pushcart Prize by VoiceCatcher
                                     *     *     *
           Iron String  chosen as an Editor's Pick 
                                by NewPages 
                                    *     *     *
And many thanks to:
All We Can Hold:  Anthology
CALYX
​Carve Magazine
Cimarron Review
Come Shining:  Essays and Poems on Writing in a                                                                      Dark Time
Crab Creek Review
Ekphrasis
Ekphrastic
Floating Bridge Review
Good Foot
The Greensboro Review
Hubbub
Hunger Mountain
Inflectionist Review
Iron Horse Literary Review

Lilliput Review
Many Mountains Moving
New Madrid Journal

The Oregonian
Poeming Pigeons:  An Anthology
​Poems for All
Poetry of Presence: 
An Anthology of Mindfulness  Poems
Prairie Wolf Review

Quiddity
Serving House Journal
Song of Ourselves (Walt Whitman 150 Anthology)
So To Speak
These Trees, Anthology

VoiceCatcher
Windfall

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