Writing

POEMS

I Take Care of my Baby while Other People’s Babies Die Unthinkable Deaths | enfleshed

Tanawha Trail After Preterm Labor | Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras | 2023

35 Knots of Mountain Wind | Witness: Appalachia to Hatteras | 2023

Tuesday in May | EcoTheo Review | Summer 2023

Lenten Benediction | Bearings Magazine | 2023

wednesday in the allergy shot clinic | Free the Verse | Issue 5 | 2023

What’s the Point? | Susurrus Magazine | Winter 2022

ode to the marigold and mauve sunset | Susurrus Magazine | Winter 2022

My Lord, What a Morning | Prayers and Blessings for Healthcare Workers | 2021

ESSAYS

Cosmic Slip | Whale Road Review | Winter 2023

Down to the Valley | Hippocampus Magazine | Fall 2023

Grounding Each Other Through Grief | enfleshed

LITURGY

Blessing for Hair Loss | enfleshed

Blessing for the Cosmic Whole | enfleshed

Blessing During Infertility | enfleshed

Blue Christmas / Longest Night | enfleshed

Remembrance of Baptism (Water Emphasis) | enfleshed

Full Communion liturgy available in the @enfleshed resource library. 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥
I had such a fun time reading with good folks at @malapropsbookstore in Asheville. It was Cory's first poetry reading 🥰. Thanks @noraweatherby for the picture.
If you're near @malapropsbookstore come see us 💫😊
Thanks, @whaleroadreview 🥰🐳
Free access to the liturgy I wrote for Christmas Eve 🇵🇸 enfleshed.com
A flash prose piece in @whaleroadreview Lost the twins two Decembers ago. Grateful for writing as a healing modality. Grateful for the beloveds who got me through. Grateful for, Cory, my living child ❤️.
"I Take Care of my Baby while Other People's Babies Die Unthinkable Deaths"
Full essay at hippocampusmagazine.com.
"35 Knots of Mountain Wind". A poem from the 2023 NC Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets Series.
Poem from the NC Gilbert-Chappell Distinguish Poets Series.
I love the work of @ecotheo, so it's an honor to be published by them. Check out their website for soulful writing or to hear me reading this little poem. EcoTheo.org
A delight to spend time reading poems with my Gilbert-Chappell prize mentor, Ken Chamlee. Ken's precision of language astounds me & Dan said the cocktails at the Brandy Bar were excellent.
An honor to be interviewed by @ryanroseweaver. This in-depth of an interview feels vulnerable because I'm used to the brevity & word choice control of poetry 😅. https://ryanroseweaver.substack.com/p/exit-interviews-when-god-said-yes?utm_source=
If anyone is near Hendersonville on July 12, you can see my very pregnant self reading some poems with a poetry mentor of mine 💫
In poetry workshops it's always helpful to hear from classmates what lines resonated with them. Seeing what lines folks choose to post on social media is a little like that 💜. @free_the_verse
Blessing for hair loss Bless the scarves The kind stylists The friends clicking on clippers The towel around your shoulders  Bless the sunhats, and ball caps, and beanies The headbands The hair pieces The buzzcuts Bless the shiny scalps refle
Honored to be a co-facilitator with @marchaegrair for the upcoming @still_harbor spiritual direction practicum 💖.
Bearings Magazine from Collegeville Institute. Lent, 2023. @collegevilleins
Free the Verse, Issue 5. @free_the_verse