“Lengua Tejana” and “Historias en Hilo,” both from Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours, have been nominated for the Pushcart prize.

Earth Sign from Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours

Singing in the Dark Times from the 2025 Poetry at Round Top Anthology

Amor Encendido

Water Signs (Finishing Line Press, 2009), no. 67 in the New Women’s Voices Series, includes three interlocking sonnet crowns, each situated in the season of a zodiacal water sign: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces.

Selected Poems Online

“How to Make a Palimpsest (Before It Was a Metaphor)” Cider Press Review 15.4 (Fall/Winter 2013)

“La Esquina,”  Poetry Superhighway, reprinted by permission of  The Normal School

“Historias en Hilo” and “Lengua Tejana,” Solstice  2011 Awards issue

Life on Ganymede, from Dos Gatos Press Reading 2012

El Arbol Milagroso – reprinted from the Texas Poetry Calendar 2008 and Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: The Best of Texas Poetry Calendar’s First Decade. 

Poems in issues of Qarrtsiluni 

A Sonnet Crown by Brass Tacks Poets, Poemeleon

Selected Poems in Print

“Nostos,” Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets, ed. Martha Serpas (Houston: Mutabilis Press)

“Photographs of the Saint’s Finger Are Strictly Prohibited,” Bellevue Literary Review 2011 Awards Issue

I am honored to also have poems in issues of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review; Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga (Dos Gatos Press, 2013); Passager (awards issue), REAL, Ellipsis (awards issue), Cactus Heart, Cider Press Review, Sequestrum, and many others.