I’m a lifelong poet with three self-produced chapbooks and many individual poems appearing in journals and other publications. In 2005 I was the recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry and in 2010 received the Frank O’Hara award. In 2019 I received the second prize in the annual contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society and have two poems forthcoming in WRITING HOME: THE 'NEW IRISH' POETS, by Dedalus Press. I’ve been a featured reader in many poetry venues in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and once in Limerick, Ireland. I taught college English and creative writing for over 20 years.
I’ve also been a volunteer poetry teacher in a fifth grade Magnet School program funded by a state grant and taught English at junior high and high school levels. I served as a Court Appointed Speci