Publications

I am grateful to have my poetry published in these fine literary journals and anthologies.

You-Tube: The Poetry Box Live! February 20, 2021 Carolyn reads from Nothing More to Lose

You-Tube: Launch of A Penchant for Masquerades, March 13, 2019 The Pond House, Milwaukie, OR

Recent Journals and Anthologies

Published in 2021

Ample Remains, “It Was a Dark and Rainy Night at the Poetry Salon”

Anacua Lit Arts Journal, “Migration”

Dissonance, “Partners of Poets Anonymous (POPA) Opening for Business”

Poetry and Place, “Revisiting Joshua Tree National Park”

VoiceCatcher, “Apologies to Mary Oliver,” “To the Spider Clinging to the Windshield of My Honda Fit”

Writing in a Woman’s Voice, “Innkeeper’s Wife Irate Over Loss” (January 12)

The Poeming Pigeon, “Fires This Time”

Published in 2020

Untold Volumes, “Preparing Jesus for Sunday”

The Blue Nib, “In Praise of Community,” “It pays to pay attention”

Change Seven, “What the Recently Dead Are Doing”

The Ekphrastic Review, “To Capella, the Goat Star”

The Compassion Anthology, “In Memory of the Taxi Driver Who Delivered Me to Denver International on Time”

Redheaded Stepchild, “Hypnopedia”

Gyroscope Review, “In Production: The Flamboyance of Flamingoes,” “Lessons from the Hermit, Slug, and Feral Cat”

Jam and Sand, “Superannuation,” “To My Type-A Friend”

San Antonio Review, “Twenty-One Epigraphs for Poems Celebrating the Retirement of Work Addicts,” “To the Dog Owners in Our Neighborhood”

Soul Lit, “Coach Class,” “Gratuity,” “Let Us Now Praise,” “Isaac: Chapters One to Wondering”

Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, “Eye-minded”

The Poeming Pigeon, “In Praise of Errancy,” “Recreating The Birth of the World”

The Writers and Readers Magazine, “Because the Sky,” “Don’t follow a good dead poet,” “In Praise of Early Spring,” “Time Management in Grand Central Bakery”

Verse Virtual, “Day One as a Volunteer in a Memory Care Center,” “Step by Step,” “You do not have to be good”

Rat’s Ass Review, “Everything that rises must converge,” “Variety Is … and 21 Other Proverbs”

Yellow Arrow Journal, “Mandate”

Published in 2019

The Sandy River, “To the young couple I embarrassed …”

MORIA, “The Best of ’42 Writers’ Rules for Writing’”

Not Very Quiet, “Blamestorming”

The Blue Nib, “To my about-to-be-ex therapist,” “Dear Billy Collins”

Listening to Poetry: An Introduction for Readers and Writers (Oregon: Chemeketa Press, 2019) “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” “What the Old Mole Said”

The Curlew, “Confessions of a Perennial Gardener”

The Poeming Pigeon, Poems about Sports, May 2019, “A nine-year-old finds her stance”

Unearthed, “Breaking News: God’s Rewilding Plan Leaked”

Soul-Lit, “It’s in the cards,” “Lament,” “Marx Was Right,” “Saving”

The Esthetic Apostle, “Snorkeling with Jesus”

The Catholic Poetry Room, “Step by step”

Naugatuck River Review, “Music to Disappear By,” Summer/Fall

Oregon Poetry Association Fall Contest, “The Prince: First Anniversary,” Second place winner for blank verse.

Smitten, This Is What Love Looks Like, “I Love You More Than Mariska Hargitay,” “Just Saying,” “”Mondays After Basketball,” “On Pompano Beach,” “Testimony ”

Pre-2019 Publications

500 Miles, “Testimony”

Amethyst Review, “Before the Beginning,” “Since feeling comes first,” “To each her saint”

Ink Sweat and Tears, Six Haiku

Kosmos Quarterly, journal for global transformation, “In Praise of Retiring in Pacific Standard Time,” “Should you ever start to pray,” “You do not have to be good”

Mezzo Cammin, “Shall I?” “For Bob,” A 73-year-old Daughter Reminds Her 94-year-old Mother,” Triolet”

Oregon Poetry Association Spring Contest, “Sonnet for the 25^th Wedding Anniversary” (Second place winner in the Sonnet Category)

Otis Nebula, “90+ Titles Appropriated from Poetry 180 (Hosted by Billy Collins)”

Panoplyzine, “Kiss,” “In the Women’s Locker Room”

Poetry Breakfast, “Along the Desert View Trail on Mount San Jacinto”

Soul Lit, 2018:“Raking Leaves with Jesus,” “The Prodigal Son Returns and His Mother Has Her Say,” “To the daughter I never had,” “Purgatory”

Soul Lit, 2019: “It’s in the cards,” “Lament,” “Marx Was Right,” “Saving”

The Poetry Box Poem of the Day, “Innkeeper’s Wife Irate Over Loss”

These Fragile Lilacs, “A Few Words About Inspiration,” “Child’s Plea”

The New Verse News, “Here, Holding On,” “We did all we could”

VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices & visions, “Reading Bailing the River While Waiting for the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird to Dine on Crocosmia”

Word Fountain, “To the Police Officer Who Let Me Off the Hook,” “Hiking, Formerly Known as Hill Walking”

Zingara Poetry Review, “Overheard”

Print Journals and Anthologies

Along the Way – A Contemporary Poetry Anthology, “A Requiem for November, “Along the Desert View Trail on Mount San Jacinto,” “Elusive,” “One does as one must,” “Tourists at Re-Mudding Time”

Becoming: What Makes a Woman, “Portrait of a Cowboy as a Young Girl”

Connoisseurs of Suffering: Poetry for the Journey to Meaning, “Gratuity,” “One Month Since”

Drash: Northwest Mosaic, “Isaac: Chapters One to Wondering”

How High Education Feels: Commentaries on Poems That Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching, “8 O’Clock Monday Morning”

Nasty Women Poets, “Resolution”

Naugatuck River Review, “In Memory of the Taxi Driver Who Delivered Me to Denver International on Time”

Peacock Journal Anthology, “A Novice’s Confession, 1964,” “Migration”

Pink Panther Magazine, “just so you know,” “one month since,” “To the daughter I never had”

Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Birds, May, 2015 — “Finding Compass”

Porcupine Chapbook, “The Accident”

Sin Fronteras/ Writers without Borders, “Directive”

Spark: A Creative Anthology, “Storm Advisory”

The Curlew, Featured Poet, December 2017 “Requiem for November,” “Arrival,” “A sonnet for plotting amateurs,” “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” “Storm Advisory,” “Through the Lifting Morning Fog”

The Absence of Something Specified, “Stranded”

The Knotted Bond: Oregon Poets Speak of Their Sisters, “Mary Winds Down the Day”

The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems, Dec, 2017 — “Everything Good Between Us or What We’ve Learned in 25 Years ”

The Poeming Pigeon: Poems from the Garden, May, 2017 — “Death of a Chinese Scholar or Why I Had to Cut My Twelve-Year Old Japonica Down.” “Notes from an August Gardener”

The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music, Nov, 2016 — “The soft edge of morning,” “How to Write a Great Country Song”

The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food, Nov, 2015 — “Crock Pot Cooking in Terza Rima”

The Timberline Review, “Circuit Breaker”

Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, “Fast Break”