Poems online & in print

The End is the Beginning” selected as winner of the 2024 Stanley Kunitz Memorial prize, published in Volume 53 of American Poetry Review.

“Earth Curriculum,” Bellingham Review (forthcoming)

“Ode to Mary, Wild Among Grasses” and “Landscape, Late Thirties,” American Poetry Review (forthcoming)

“The Unspeakable Thing,” Barrow Street Journal (forthcoming)

“I Dream Of Our Hypothetical Daughter,” Shenandoah (forthcoming)

“What We Might Mean by Oneness,” “Sonnet for the We Woven Across,” “Sonnet for My Mother Brewing Coffee,” Gashmius, February 2025

Excerpts from “YESHIVA,” Bat City Review, December 2024

Aubade with Selichot” republished on Poetry Daily, April 2024.

“Conjugations of Mothering” and “Time Decides,” West Branch, Winter 2024

What are Women For,” Breakwater Review, Winter 2024

A Taxonomy of Bolting” and “Aubade with Selichot,” The Kenyon Review, Winter 2024.

“How We Love” and “Cento,” Laurel Review, Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology, Fall 2023

“Might Kindred” featured on The Slowdown podcast, October, 2023

Make a Tzohar in the Ark,” “Mothered Mothers,” “Sonnet for the Vines Wrapped Around this Book,” “An Impartial List of What’s Been Said to Me This Week,” and “Decision,” Radar Issue 37, Winners and Finalists for the Coniston Prize, Fall 2023

“Rebekka the Voice Teacher,” The First 50 Years: A Jubilee in Prose and Poetry Honoring Women Rabbis, CCAR Press, Summer 2023

“She Was the First,” Arc Poetry, Summer 2023

“Still Life with Riot and Hospital Wedding,” Poetry Northwest, Summer & Fall 2023

“Rosh Hashanah,” The Massachusetts Review, Summer 2023

“Sleeping in Hurricane Season,” The Iowa Review, Winter 2022-2023

“The Last Visit,” Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2022

“Ghazal For a First Lover,” American Poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Fall-Winter 2022

Watering Day,” SWWIM poem of the day, Nov 18, 2022

Consider the Womb,” “Death in Spring,” and “After the Wedding,” Four Way Review, Fall 2022

In Praise of Sun Spots,” The Adroit Journal “In Praise Of” series, Nov 2022

Occupational Hazards” in Palette Poetry, selected by Jos Charles for the 2022 Sappho Prize in Women’s Poetry.

Because It Is Elul,Southeast Review online feature, September 2022

Might Kindred” featured on Ours Poetica, September 2022

“Prologue,” “Good Intentions,” “The Poet Considers If Her Body Belongs To Her,” “Song Singing Back,” “Love Letter,” and “Season of Want”, Third Coast, Summer 2022

4 Poems and an interview in COMP: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Spring 2022

The Audacity of Want,” Muzzle Magazine, Spring 2022

Self Portrait with Airplane Turbulence” and “Way Too Late,The Adroit Journal, February 2022

Ghazal for God & Wellbutrin,” Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2021, and featured on Verse Daily.

“Here,” West Trestle Review, Fall 2021

Family Is An Illumination of Shoulders,” The Journal, Spring 2021

They Say Loss Can Touch Another Loss,” “Falling Out,” and “Granddaughter Casting Afternoon Shadows,” Waxwing, Spring 2021

Ode,” Gigantic Sequins, Spring 2021

Emblanquecer,” So To Speak Journal, Spring 2021

“Banishing Loneliness” and “It Isn’t Easy to Speak,” Foglifter Journal, Spring 2021

Halleluyah,” The Boiler Journal, February 2021

Dendrochronology of Hair,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, January 2021

The Thought of Writing A Whole Letter To You,” “Ars Poetica,” “Spring Song,” and “Season of Elegy” on the Poetry Foundation website. “Ars Poetica” featured as the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day, Dec 20, 2020.

A poem about a book about Venezuela” and “Here,” Canthius Journal, Fall 2020

Immigrant Elegy for Ávila,” Southern Indiana Review, Ruth Awad Poetry Picks, Spring 2020

Becoming the future,” “fragments of an anthem,” “father-tumor,” and “Elegy becomes Memory,” Interim Poetics, April 2020

Letter To Myself From My Great Grandmother,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, April 2020

A poem with two memories of Venezuela,” Minola Review, Winner of the 2020 Minola Review Poetry Contest, March 2020

 “Visit,” Ninth Letter, Winter 2020

We thanked her by digging a hole,” Pedestal Magazine, December 2019

Imaginative Exercise in the Study of Epigenetics” and “Teaching Notes,” Foglifter Journal, Fall 2019

Here,” Frontier Poetry, October 2019

“Theology,” Plenitude Magazine, January 2019

Now we live together,” Fearsome Critters, December 2018

“Might Kindred,” Rabbit: A Journal for Nonfiction Poetry, Fall 2018

excerpt from Of Darkness and Tumbling,” Big Big Wednesday, November 2017

after Pulse,” Hold: a journal, Fall 2017

Coma Poem X", Urge, Jewish Currents Magazine, May 2016

“The thought of writing a whole letter to you”, “Questions about smell,” “key words & small objects,” and “Season of Elegy,” fog machine, November 2016

excerpt from Coma Poems,” and “ Visit 2,” Hold: a journal, Fall 2015

excerpt from A Want Exists,” Cutbank, Summer 2013

excerpt from Simultaneously We,” Alice Blue Review, Fall 2012

Accolades

Prize:

  • “The End is the Beginning” selected as winner of the 2024 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review.

  • “Occupational Hazards” selected by Jos Charles as 1st place winner of the 2022 Palette Poetry Sappho Prize for Women Poets.

  • Might Kindred selected as the winner of the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, judged by Kwame Dawes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Hilda Raz, and published by the University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2022.

  • “A poem with two memories of Venezuela” won the 2020 Minola Review Poetry Contest, judged by Doyali Islam.

  • “A poem with two memories of Venezuela” included in Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press, 2021).

Nominee: Pushcart Prize (2024), Pushcart Prize (2023), Nina Riggs Poetry Award (2022), Pushcart Prize (2022), Best of the Net (2022), Best of the Net (2021), Best of the Net (2020), Pushcart Prize (2020), Pushcart Prize (2015).

Finalist: Radar Coniston Prize (Fall 2023), Gulf Coast Prize Honorable Mention in Poetry (2023), Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Might Kindred (2023), Longlist for Frontier Open (2022), Switchback Books Gatewood Prize (2021), Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition (2021), Black River Chapbook Contest (2020), Newfound Press Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize (2020), Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest (2020), Tinderbox Journal Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize (2020), Switchback Books Gatewood Prize (2020), Test Site Poetry Series of Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics (2019), Alexandra and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition for Jewish Currents Magazine (2016), Cleveland State University First Book Contest (2016), Agape Editions Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award (2016), Cutthroat Journal Joy Harjo Poetry Prize (2015).

Media

Video links:

Death in Spring” featured in Windfall Room, Issue 72

Might Kindred” featured on Ars Poetica.

Poetry Northwest Summer/Fall 2023 Virtual Issue Launch & Reading.

Café Muse 2023 Reading with Komal Mathew