Poetry Awards
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2024
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"Backyard," The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Ekphrastic Challenge #5 Winner
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2023
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"Concluded: Six Weeks Bed-ridden," Best of the Net nomination, Rockvale Review
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"Luminous," Pushcart Prize nomination, Field Guide Poetry Magazine
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2022
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"Zip Code Poem," Pushcart Prize Nomination, Divot Poetry
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2021
30/30 Project, Tupelo Press; October Participant
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“I’m Faster Than My Brothers,” The Rash Awards, Honorable Mention
2019
Finalist, Death Valley AiR, National Parks Arts Foundation
“The Irish Girls,” The Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award, Special Merit Award
“Oh, the Wild Bird,” The Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award, Honorable Mention
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2010
“The Children’s Blizzard, January, 1888,” NFSPS Nature Poem, Third Prize
“In Hiding,” OSPA Spring Contest, Members Only Category, First Prize
“Noiseless,” NFSPS Founders Award, Second Prize
“What Poetry Means,” New York Poetry Forum Award, First Prize
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2009
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“A Simple Declaration About My Old Town,” OSPA, 2nd Place, Free Verse Category
“Where I’ve Lived,” OSPA, 2nd Place, Members Only Category
2008
Three poems, International Merit Award, Atlanta Review
Bodies in Flight book manuscript, Black Lawrence Press, semi-finalist
2007
“How to Wear Water,” League of Minnesota Poets, Second Place, Encore
2006
VCCA Artist’s Residency Grant
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“Sphex Wasp,” Finalist, The Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award
2005
“Everybody Is Always from Long Island,” Don Russ Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, Kennesaw Review
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Harlots and Hershey Bars, The Washington Prize, Finalist/Honorable Mention (no publication)
“Penance,” Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, Paterson Literary Review
The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky, Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, First Runner Up
2004
“The Ballad of Martha Stewart,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Ballad Category, Second Prize
“Basho in South Dakota,” NFSPS Contests, Wisconsin Poetry Award, First Prize
“Becoming a Reader,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Dueling Judges Category, Second Prize
“The Memory of Words,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Free Verse Category, Third Prize
“Quilting a Poem,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Poet’s Choice Category, Honorable Mention
2003
“Buffalo Creek,” Kentucky State Poetry Society, Appalachian Category, Third Prize
“Cars and Dogs,” Missouri State Poetry Society, Honorable Mention
“Danger,” Vermont Poetry Association, Honorable Mention
“How to Eat Poetry,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Free Verse Category, First Prize
“It’s Been a Busy Week,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Current Affairs Category, First Prize
“The Loneliness of Longitude and Latitude,” NFSPS Founders Award, Second Prize
“Middle-aged, Mid-America, Middle of the Road,” Kentucky State Poetry Society, Aging Category, Second Prize
Moving the Language, Albireo Press Chapbook Contest, First Prize
“Orange,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Dueling Judges Category, First Prize
2002
“Cycles,” Inventing the Invisible/Art in the Air “Earth” Poetry Contest, Second Prize
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“Joy—When There Is Nothing Else,” White Mice Contest, First Prize
“The Lawyer in the Moon,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Free Verse Category, Third Prize
“The Problem with Hanging Out with Dead Elvis in Vegas.” The Old Red Kimono, Second Prize
“A Reluctant Client at the Shelter Speaks,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Traditional Form Category, Second Prize
“The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky,” Poetry Society of New Hampshire, First Prize
2001
“I Love Men on Prozac,” Spoon River Poetry Review Poetry Contest, First Place
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“The Lawyer in the Moon,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Free Verse Category, Third Place
“Poverty Sonnet,” Oregon State Poetry Association, Traditional Verse Category, Honorable Mention
1999
Ordinary Days in Ordinary Places, Pudding House Press Chapbook Contest, Fourth Place
1998
“Bras: A Sestina,” National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, First Place
“Fine, Smooth Lines Like Peacock Plumes,” Pushcart Prize Nomination
“A Hysterectomy, A Birth, An Allergy,” National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, Honorable Mention
1997
“Ascendancy,” National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, Honorable Mention
“Gentle Advice to the Lovelorn and Nervous,” National League of American PEN Women/Portland Branch, Honorable Mention
“I Do Laundry Well,” Comstock Review Poetry Awards, Honorable Mention
1994
“Lime,” Pushcart Prize Nomination
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1993
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Ruth Lilly Poetry Conference Student Fellowship
