If I Call This Cave a Garden

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poems in print

“Loom” — The Massachusetts Review (66.2)

“My Love for Geography is an Act of Mourning” — The Massachusetts Review (66.2)

“If I Teach Tomatoes to Climb Stalagmites, I Can Call This Cave a Garden” — Colorado Review (51.1)

“Salt Lick” — Colorado Review (51.1)

“Have You Missed the Color Red?” — Driftwood Press (2023)

awards

2025 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize

2025 Theodore Roethke Prize Finalist

2024 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest Finalist

2024 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize Finalist

2024 Diode Chapbook Contest Finalist

2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Contest Semifinalist

2024 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest Semifinalist

2022 Adrift Chapbook Award Finalist

2022 Theodore Roethke Prize Finalist

2021 Theodore Roethke Prize Finalist