Still the undisputed champion of spending 45ish minutes looking for a place to submit only to ultimately submit nowhere.

Hold on, world ❤️

A belated thank you to Matt Usher and @maggieball1 for the gracious review of THE ONES in Compulsive Reader 💕 The site reviews all kinds of books so check them out. compulsivereader.com/2025/04/27/a...

Been off the grid a bit doing some traveling, working, and generally trying not to be overwhelmed by the state of things. Prepare yourself for a steady stream of travel pics and random news 💕💕
Pic: South Beach, Miami
4/25/25

Come join me on 3/20. Poetry/Open Mic/Wine and Cheese all in a gorgeous bookstore. What's not to love!?
Reserve your spot at Eventbrite

Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright and poet who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930's. In different translations, this poem's title is sometimes "To Those Born After" and "wrongdoing" is often "misdeeds" or "horrors." No matter how it's translated, I feel this deep in my bones.

appearing in THE ONES
(Photo by Jakob Klucky on Unsplash)

Oh my goodness, just saw this comment. Thank you so much 😊

One week from today! If you’re anywhere near Norwich, VT or Hanover, NH come here me and Mary Bonina talk about love ❤️💔💜🖤💝

Originally from @vineleavespress.bsky.social 50 Give or Take, Aug 2021. Now in The Ones (Kelsay Books) available on Amazon ❤️

A little creative nonfiction piece in Emerge Literary Journal exploring the self-centeredness of memory (photo by NEOM) 🐍

I found you in the sky! Looks like this is where all my favorite writers are shining. Thank you for sharing this!

A huge thank you to the 3,835 people who entered my Goodreads giveaway and congratulations to the winners! Books are in the mail!

“Love Byte” from THE ONES. Available on Amazon

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.” - Khalil Gibran (photo take at Hale Reservation, Westwood, MA)

IT’S FINALLY HERE!! My debut poetry collection is now available! A HUGE thank you to Kelsay Books for making this dream come true, and give it up for @itsmgphotography for her gorgeous cover image and @shaymultimedia for the cover design🥰 Available on Amazon: a.co/d/aJEY08x

Beyond honored that The Ilanot Review nominated my story "Brightly, Brightly" for Best of the Net! Congrats to all the nominees! #BofN #fiction
You can read my story here: ilanotreview.com/parents-pros...

Amazing, amazing news I've been bursting to share! My debut poetry collection The Ones has been accepted for publication by Kelsay Books! Can't wait for the day I get to share this labor of love with everyone❤️❤️
#poetry #poetrycommunity #theones

Emily Rinkema June 2024 Second Prize Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab by Emily Rinkema It’s his turn, and from the back seat he tosses out an easy one. “Would you rather eat a mile of garbage or a mile of …

"...she’ll cry and ask him questions that all end with the word me."
Love everything about this gem from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

Been in a writing cave for the last four months but happy to be back. Here's a link to my sad little story "Brightly, Brightly" in the Parents themed issue of The Ilanot Review. www.ilanotreview.com/parents-pros...
And here's another if you want to hear me read it www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbg...

Thank you so much!

A huge thank you to @bridportprize.bsky.social and judge @christopherallen.bsky.social for honoring my flash fiction story "Anna Wonders Whether Birds Will Build a Nest With Cat Hair" with a Highly Commended Prize. Still floating on air! Pictured here Mayor Dave Bolwell and his wife Bridget.

Beautiful

Super haunting! A perfect example of saying a lot without actually saying it.... Well done 👏

Brilliant as always! Thank you!

I call it productive procrastination

welcome!

Dear Friends, Contributors, Subscribers, & Supporters of Literature, After 35 years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren & I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it's frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept. It was made clear to us that they know little about who we are, what we do, and what our value is, and could be, to the Gettysburg College campus. We encourage you to reach out to the college’s president, Bob Iuliano, and provost, Jamila Bookwalla. Tell them what you think of this decision & the merits of publishing great literature. riuliano@gettysburg.edu (717)337-6010 jbookwal@gettysburg.edu (717)337-6820 ... We would love to hear about what the Gettysburg Review has meant to you. Please send condolences, anecdotes, and other stray and helpful thoughts to Lauren & me, and if we can, we will share them... Mark Drew, Editor

Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)

My pleasure. Always up for supporting a fellow writer 🖊️