Publications & Awards

Journals:

  • Black Mountain Press, The Sixty Four, “sorry for your loss,” “No Answer”

  • Broad River Review: “God’s Teeth,”Spring 2011 “Last Poem,”Spring 2013, “Incandescence,”Spring 2014, “Fiftieth Anniversary”, Spring 2015, “Almost,” Vol. 3, 2021.

  • Caduceus: “His Death”, “I Drag His Death After Me”, Vol. 5, 2007,“Marriage Lasting”Vol. 8, 2010

  • Calyx: “My Husband Loves Me” Winter 1998/99

  • Chickenpinata, “How To Get From Summer To Fall”

  • Comstock Review: “Girl”, Vol. 18, #2, 2004,“Facelift”,Vol. 15 #1 2001, “Residue”23.2, Fall/Winter 2009, “this morning,” Vol. 28.2, 2014

  • Common Ground Review ,“Breakfast At The Harborside” Vol. 11, issue 1, 2009

  • Connecticut River Review: “Question,” 2003, “The Green Sweater,” 2009, “Get Lost,” 2010, “Shadow,” 2016

  • Cross Currents:” Costumes” Vol. 54, #2

  • Darkhorse Publications,  “Another Fire,” “not”

  • Freshwater, “Rome 2013,” 2014

  • Great River Review, “When You Return,” Fall/Winter 2012

  • Homestead Review: “Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto,” “Death Of An American Citizen Abroad,” Vol. 18, Issue 1, 2001, “What I Saw in the Snow,” 2010

  • Illya’s Honey: “Rome 1987”, Vol. 13, 2007, “Keys To the Cages,” “Love In Saigon,” Vol. 16, #1, 2010

  • Italian Americana, “The Things I Carry,” spring 2019, “Where I Come From,” Winter 2022

  • Long River Run: “The Green Sweater,”“Warrant,” 2009

  • Naugatuck River Review, “Mother Of A Dead Son Gets His Bones Back After Twenty Years,” Issue 3,Winter 2010,  “Body Check,” Issue 5, Winter 2011,”Nora Dennis Is Praying For Me,” Issue 10, Summer 2013, “Shelter,” Issue 11, Winter 2014, “Birthday, Krakow,” Issue 15, Winter/Spring 2016

  • Maryland Poetry Review, “For The Son Who Lives” Spring/Summer 1994

  • Mudfish 17, “Refuse”

  • Mudfish 21, 2020  “Evanescence,” Mother’s Day,” “Cookies.”

  • New Delta Review, “Rome 2007”, “The Story” Vol. 27, Spring 2010

  • One Art, “Casualty,” “Can This Marriage Be Saved,” Summer 2022

  • Passager 2011 Poetry Contest Issue, “Paper Dolls”

  • Passenger Journal, “why,” December 2022

  • Ping Pong: “The Radiance Of Violation,” 2008

  • Poeticas: “Husband,” Summer 2003

  • Poet Lore, “this fire,” Vol. 105 #3/4, Fall/Winter 2010, “Wife,” Vol. 115, Spring/Summer 2020

  • PMS poememoirstory, “Coming Out, 1960,” #10, 2010

  • Rattle, “Love’s Executioner,” Vol. 16, #2, Winter 2010

  • Re-Union, “Anniversary Of A Lie,”  #2, 2011

  • Right Hand Pointing 2018, Harvest,” “The Customer”

  • Roar, “The Letter,” Winter Issue, 2012

  • Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, “To My Daughter,” Fall 2011, “Thrall,” Summer 2012

  • Story Circle Network, 1st Place Winner, 2021 Poetry Competition, “Ode to Ireland,” 3rd Place Winner, “Remains,” 2022 Poetry Contest

  • The Halcyone,  “Sorry For Your Loss,” “No Answer”

  • The Mom Egg, “Feasting On Our Detritus,” Vol. 10, 2012

  • The Paterson Literary Review,  “On Reading The Poems Of The Poet In Residence,” #38, 2010/2011

  • The Poet Touchstone, “Diagnosis,” Vol. 53, #3, Summer 2010,  “What It Was,” Vol. 54, #3 Summer 2011, “Visit,” “After Blue,” Vol. 55, #3, Summer 2012

  • Touch, A Journal Of Healing,” Creed, ” Issue 3, January 2010

  • Upstreet, 2018, ”Famine”

  • Verse Daily, “Hungry Ghost,” 2020, can’t find date

  • Voices In Italian America: “Long Marriage,”“Cinque Terre,”“Passeggiata,” “ Wedding,” Vol. 15, 2004

  • White Pelican Review: “At The Best Western,” Vol. 6 #1, 2005

  • Women’s Studies Quarterly: “Field Trip,” Vol. xxxll,  # 3/4, Fall/Winter 2004

Anthologies:

  • Proposing On The Brooklyn Bridge: “Anniversary,” Grayson Books, 2003

  • Not What I Expected: “Whiteout”

  • Of A Certain Age: Voices Of Experience: “Asking”

  • Trigger Warning: Poetry Saved My Life,” “Poetry As Savior,” “Altar”

  • Grief, A Life In Five Stages, “I Drag His Death After Me,” 2014

  • From Dusk To Need, 25 Years Of Flume Press, “Bad Girl At The Altar Rail, “I Drag His Death After Me,” 2010

  • Confluencia In The Valley, “The Story,” 2013

  • Thirty Years Of New Delta Review, “The Story,” 2015

  • Circe’s Lament, Anthology Of Wild Women Poetry, “Hungry,” 2015

  • Watching The Perseids, Twenty Years Of Backwaters Press, “Venice 2013,” “Holy,” 2017

  • Connoissers of Suffering: Poetry for the Journey to Meaning, University Professor’s Press 2017, “this morning,” “Fiftieth Anniversary.”

  • “What We Talk About When We Talk About It,” Darkhorse Publications, Vol. 2, September 2020

  • Real Women Write: Seeing Through Their Eyes, “Five Women Around a Table,” “To the Mothers of Uvalde,” Story Circle Network, 2022

Prizes:

  •  “Almost”, Finalist, Broad River Review Rash Awards 2021

  • “After Blue,” 3rd prize, Poetry Society of New Hampshire 2012 Summer Contest

  • “Afternoon At MoMA”. Honorable Mention, Poetry Society Of New Hampshire 2011 Spring Contest

  • “Body Check,” Honorable Mention, Naugatuck River Review 2010 Contest

  • “Birthday, Krakow,” Semi-Finalist, 2015 Naugatuck River Review Contest

  • “Choosing My Son’s Cemetery Plot,” Honorable Mention in Ed and Fay Phillips Prize, Gulf Coast Magazine, 2002

  • “Diagnosis,” Third Prize, 2010 Poetry Society of New Hampshire Contest

  • “Feasting On Our Detritus,” Honorable Mention, Poetry Society Of New Hampshire Contest 2011 Spring Contest

  • “Field Notes 1950”, Honorable Mention, Poetry Society Of New Hampshire 2012 Summer Contest

  • “Fiftieth Anniversary,” First prize, 2014 Rash Awards Contest, Broad River Review.

  • “For The Son Who Lives”. Honorable Mention, Michael Egan Poetry Contest, Maryland Review, 1994

  • “Girl”, 2004 Finalist in Comstock Review, Honorable Mention in Hill-Stead Museum’s 2003 Sunken Garden Competition, Honorable mention in 2004 Al Savard CT. Poetry Society Contest

  • “Hostage,” Second Prize, 2021 Nutmeg Poetry Contest, CT Poetry Society..

  • “Gone,” Honorable mention, 2013 Pat Schneider poetry contest

  • “I Try The Word, Love,” Honorable Mention in Hill-Stead Museum’s 2003 Sunken Garden Competition

  • “Incandescence”, Finalist, 2013 Rash Poetry Awards, Broad River Review

  • “Keys To the Cages,” Honorable Mention 2010 Dallas Poets Community Open Poetry    Competition

  • “Last Poem,” Finalist 2010 Rash Awards, Broad River Review

  • “Love In Saigon,” Third prize, 2010 Dallas Poets Community Open Poetry Competition

  • “Love Me Do,” Finalist, 2023 Rash Awards 2023

  • “Mother Of A Dead Son Gets His Bones Back After Twenty Years,” semi-finalist, 2010 Naugatuck River Review contest

  • “Ode to Ireland,” First Prize, Story Circle Network Contest 2021

  • “Paper Dolls”, Honorable Mention, 2011 Passager poetry contest

  • “Rome, 1987,” First Prize, 2007 Dallas Community Poets Competition

  • “Residue,” Special Merit, 2009 Comstock Review Poetry Contest

  • “Remains,” Third Prise, Story Circle Poetry Contest 2022

  • “The Story,” First Prize, New Delta Review 2010 Contest

  • “The Visit,” 2nd prize, Poetry Society Of New Hampshire Poetry 2012 Summer Contest

  • “The Green Sweater,” Third Prize, 2009 CT Poetry Society Contest

  • “this morning,” Special Merit, 2014 Comstock Review contest

  • “Shadow,” Second Prize, 2016 CT Poetry Society Contest

  • “Shelter,” Semi-finalist, 2013 Naugatuck River Review contest

  • “The Halcyone, Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018

  • “Versions,”Finalist,  200? Dallas Community Poets Competition

  • “Warrant,” Second Prize, 2008 Al Savard Memorial Poetry Competition

  • “What It Was,” First Prize, 20111 New Hampshire Poetry Society Contest

Chapbooks:

  • Unhinged, Finalist Blue Light Press Chapbook contest 2018

  • After Blue, Finishing Line Press, 2014, Honorable Mention

  • Bad Girl At The Altar Rail, First Prize, 2005 Flume Press Chapbook Competition

  • Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto, First Prize, 2006 Dallas Community Poets Chapbook Competition

  • Incendiary, Semi-finalist, 2014 Grazing Grain Press, Finalist, 2014 Poets At Work, Runner-Up, 2014 Anabiosis Press, First Prize: 2014 Ruby Irene Chapbook Contest, Arcadia Magazine

Books:

  • Branch in His Hand, Backwaters Press, 2008

  • I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, (poems) editor and publisher, 2004

  • I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent,: How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Girls” (memoir) Mango Publishing 2020

  • The Glass is Already Broken, Blue Light Press (poems) 2021

Media:

  • Four Trees Down from Ponte Sisto, BBC radio drama based on my poetry and recollections, Gregory Whitehead, acted by Anne Undeland, broadcast on Radio 4 in June 2012.

  • Enlighten, Uplift and Inspire with Dr. Deborah Adamy, podcast, September14, 2020

 Pushcart Prize Nominations:

  • “Bad Girl At The Altar Rail”

  • “I Drag His Death After Me” (twice)

  • “I Try The Word, Love”

  • “The Gift” (twice)

  • “Things,” 2022

  • “Where I Come From,” 2022

  • “Five Women Around a Table,” (essay) 2022

Awards:

  • Fall 2004, Sower’s Seed Award for work in social outreach, Trinity Washington University

  • Fall 2005: First Litchfield County Inge Morath Award, given for significant social impact in the arts.

  • April 2006: “Making A Difference for Women” Award, given by Soroptimist International, Waterbury (CT) Chapter.

  • July 2009, “The Sharon Charde Poetry Garden” dedicated at Touchstone, a residential treatment facility in Litchfield, CT, where I volunteered for 16 years.

Fellowships:

  • Vermont Studio Center: (partial) ‘08, ’09, ’11, ’12, ‘16

  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: ’10, ’13, ‘14, ’18, ’19, 22

  • MacDowell’15, ‘17

  • The Corporation of Yaddo, ‘16

  • The Ucross Foundation, 2020, 2022