My Work

My writing life has taken me in a number of different directions. While I now work primarily in haiku, I had a long life as a free-verse poet before that, and also dabbled in various prose forms. Use the table of contents below to navigate to the genres most relevant to you. Note that as of this writing, I have published over 200 haiku and related forms. Due to how erratic I am in updating this list, that section should always be considered incomplete.

Books

Postcards from Texas (Cuttlefish Books, 2023)

Come Into the World Like That (Five Oaks Press, 2016)

We’re Smaller Than We Think We Are (Finishing Line Press, 2013)

Online Workshops and Talks

2024

The Poetry That is Tanka,” Poetry Pea Podcast S7E53

Single Object Haiku & Senryu Poetry,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S7E26

Special Report: Fish Fridays,” Eat Me in St. Louis

2023

Original Haiku, Senryu, and short poetry using Food,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S6E4

2022

Food & Seasons in Haiku,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E24

“Original haiku & senryu with depth,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E20

The Vulgar, the Commonplace, and the Taboo,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E16

WLT Off the Beaten Craft: Minimalism and Maximalism in English-Language Haiku (Livestream Recording)

“Original haiku & senryu with punctuation,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E8

“Haiku Punctuation!,” Poetry Pea Podcast, S5E4

2019

Your Life Practice Podcast: “We Are All Creative

2018

Yoga Teacher Resource Podcast: Take Your Yoga Biz Outside the Box

Editorial Work

2024-Present

Frogpond: https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html

2023-Present

Haiku Girl Summer: https://haikugirlsummer.substack.com/

2023

Fractured by Cattails (2023 Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology) View at the HSA website | Buy on Amazon

2022 – 2024

Newsletter Editor, Haiku Society of America (view the archive at the HSA website)

2020

Texas Poetry Calendar, Kallisto Gaia Press (with Zoë Fay-Stindt)

2028-2022

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (folded November 2022)

2016-2018

Texas Poetry Calendar, Dos Gatos Press (with Wade Martin)

2024

Two tanka in Poetry Pea Journal 6:24

One haiku in Wales Haiku Journal Autumn 2024

One tan-renga in Frogpond 47.3 (with Anne Morrigan)

One senryu in #FemkuMag 36

One haiku in Haiku Dialogue: Going for a Walk – Rivers and Clouds

2023

One haiku in Change: The British Haiku Society 2023 Members’ Anthology

One haiku in Earthworks: Haiku North American 2023 Conference Anthology

2022

Five haiku in A Charm of Finches: Haiku Society of America Southwest Region

One haiku in Poetry Pea Journal, Winter 2022

One haiku in Trash Panda Haiku Volume 3

Three haiku in #FemKuMag 34

One haiku in Modern Haiku 53.3

One haiku in bottle rockets 46

One haiku in Stardust Haiku 66

One tan-renga in Failed Haiku Issue 79 (with Christine Wenk-Harrison)

Two haiku in #FemkuMag 33

Two haiku in Akitsu Quarterly

One haiku in Poetry Pea Journal Spring 2022

One senryu in Failed Haiku Issue 75

One haiku in the Texas Poetry Calendar

2021

One senryu in Failed Haiku Issue 73

Two haiku in the Waco Wordfest Anthology

One haiku in the Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2021

One haiku in Autumn Moon 9:2 (Spring/Summer 2021)

One senryu in Failed Haiku Issue 70

“Biker Dad” (haibun) in Drifting Sands Haibun

2020

One haiku and one haibun in Cattails October 2020

One haiku in Kingfisher Journal

Three haiku at Miriam’s Well

One haiku in Under the Bashō

One haiku in Hedgerow 131

One haiku in Frogpond 43.2

One haiku in Haiku Dialogue

One haiku and one haibun in Cattails April 2020

2017

One haiku in haikuniverse, November 2017

2016

One haiku in Bones 11

“Ten Days Before Christmas” in Contemporary Haibun Online (Spring 2016)

2014

Cat haiku in 50 Haikus (September 2014)

2013

Haiku in the Judd’s Hill Winery poetry anthology (December 2013)

3 haiku at A Handful of Stones (November-December 2013)

One haiga in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga from Dos Gatos Press (April 2013)

2012

Drought haiku — Haiku Journal, issue 13, 9/1/12 (also available in the Haiku Journal paperback anthology)

Erosion Haiku” — Extracts, 8/8/12

2011

A haiku about fire ants – A Handful of Stones

Free-Verse and Formal Poetry

2021

From the Garage Floor” in Voicemail Poems, May 2021

2020

Poetry in the Age of Information Overload” at Ariel Publishing

2017

Rules for Surviving an American Dictatorship” in WORDPEACE, Summer/Fall 2017

Halving Papaya” in Voicemail Poems, January 2017

2016

Rules for Gentrification” in the San Antonio Express-News, November 2016

“Democracy and Exile,” “Mutilation,” and “The best part of a love affair is walking up the stairs” in Scarlet Leaf Review (Spring 2016)

“Delayed-Onset Grief” in Issue 9 of Tigershark (Spring 2016)

“If the Campaign is Protracted” in Issue 8 of NonBinary Review (Spring 2016)

“This is Not a Pig” in Gyroscope Review (Spring 2016)

“Fleeing Where I’m From” in The Phoenix Soul (Spring 2016)

Rules for Flying” in Zingara Poetry Picks (March 2016)

While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling In Love” in The Texas Observer (February 2016)

Gunfire” and “Come and Take It” in Elohi Gadugi Journal (Winter 2016)

2015

Rest Stop” in Zingara Poetry Picks (December 2015)

“If I Was Not a Good Girl” in Yellow Chair Review #5

“Missing Out” and “Rules for Taking a Punch” in Huizache #5

Tonight There Were Sirens” in The Literary Nest (October 2015)

“Had There Been Peace,” Blue Hole (October 2015)

“Where Rivers Come From,” The Enigmatist (August 2015)

I always forget where things belong” in Ragazine (April 2015)

2014

On Mustang Island” in Extracts: Daily Dose of  Lit (December 2014)

“Whittled by Wind, Shaped by Water” in the 2015 Texas Poetry Calendar

Postscript to Grief” in Postcard Poems and Prose (October 2014)

Where Clouds Come From” in Postcard Poems and Prose (September 2014)

Waiting on the Marfa Lights” in Postcard Poems and Prose (September 2014)

“Lunar Meditation” and “We say that we need freedom” in Best Austin Poetry 2012-2014

Unstructured Sky” in Unsplendid 5.3 and 6.1

Come Into the World Like That,” “Dismantling Legacies,” and “I Don’t Have a Vermont Poem” in When Women Waken (June 2014)

Travel Notes” in By&By Poetry, Issue 5

Temptation Highway” in The Voices Project (June 2014)

“Final Destination” and “Off the path” in The Enigmatist (Spring 2014)

“The last words spoken by a female death row inmate in Texas,” AIPF Di-verse-city Anthology 2014

2013

“I am, I am, I am” in Blue Hole Magazine (Fall 2013)

Warden, Murder Me” in New Verse News, August 2013

“Enter Here” and “Seeing in Longhorn Cavern” in Best of Austin Poetry 2011-2012 (May 2013)

Thirty poems for Pulitzer Remix (April 2013)

“On Hold” and “Apology Letter to a Stranger” in Mercury Retrograde: Fried Electronics, Transportation Mishaps, Snarles Communications (Kattywompus Press, March 2013)

“I hear the thunder” in Journey to Crone from Chuffed Buff Books (March 2013)

The letter I haven’t been sending,” “Portrait in IMC,” “This morning, I remembered:,” and “Introduction to French Language and Culture” in JustThis (January 2013)

Thirty-one poems in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project (January 2013)

Refinieries” — Southern Women’s Review(January 2013)

2012

A Soul for an Hour” in the San Antonio Express-News, 12/16/12

“Eight Seconds” in Blue Hole: A Magazine of the Georgetown Poetry Festival (2012)

Two small stones in A Blackbird Sings: a book of short poems, 10/10/12

“How you know you are one with your city,” “Lived-In,” “Prohibition,” and “Sometimes, a man’s body”Twenty Something Press, 9/28/12

What is dust?” — Big River Poetry Review, 8/27/12

Lizard” — Your Daily Poem, 7/3/12

“290 West, top down” – 2013 Texas Poetry Calendar

“Bonded”  – Ephemera zine #5

You Can See the Silence” – TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism

Fleeing Oklahoma” – TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism

“Eulogy” in the San Antonio Current

“S/m” – Southern Women’s Review (February 2012)

“Traversing Houston By Bus” – 2012 Texas Poetry Calendar 

“For Reference” — Shared on the 100 Million Girls open poetry thread, 7/10/12

2011

Siesta Key, Christmas” – Every Day Poets

“Song of the Triangle” in Crucible, Fall issue

“Facing Death” – Ardent!

“I believe in wet paint” – Blue Hole: A Magazine of the Georgetown Poetry Festival

“Awake at All Hours” – Ardent!

2010

Two Poems (“Love Song to a ’94 Honda” and “Vacant Lot”) – Carcinogenic Poetry

Goldfinch” – The Cleveland Review

“I want to dance barefoot on the grave of history” – Young American Poets

Lyric Prose

2018

No Ordinary Spider” in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment.

2017

Heartbreak on the Hill” in Parks and Points, Spring 2017

2016

“Everything is Fine” in Issue 3 of Donut Factory (Summer 2016)

2013

Mitzvah” in issue 74 of Crack the Spine

2012

The First Six Months of Survival” – Trivia: Voices of Feminism

2011

“Distillation” in the San Antonio Current

Scholarship

2019

Shut Up & Yoga, Doing Away with Namaste

2011

“Nellie McClung” and “Mary Daly” – Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History, edited by Dr. Tiffany K. Wayne.

Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and the Complexities of Prostitution” – Her Circle Ezine

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