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My poem “What” inspired by Sharon Olds published in Califragile + no fee submission call w/interview

Big thanks to Califragile for featuring three of poems this month! The third and final poem “What,” inspired by Sharon Olds’ poem “When,” has now been published. “What” was originally published in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands by Shabda Press.

Califragile is a new online poetry journal seeking both unpublished and previously published poems (when rights allow). The Aboutpage reads,…

Three of my poems published in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands by Shabda Press

Cover art: “On the Road to Perilous” by John Sokol

I am honored to have my poems “The Next State,” “Denial,” and “What” published in this amazing poetry anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands with so many wonderful writers. Proceeds from the anthology are being donated to the Women’s Center in Downtown Los Angeles. ​I’m particularly proud of this poem, which I wrote as part of a…

My poem “The Next State” published in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands by Shabda Press

Cover art: “On the Road to Perilous” by John Sokol

I am honored to have my poem “The Next State” published in this amazing poetry anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands with so many wonderful writers. Proceeds from the anthology are being donated to the Women’s Center in Downtown Los Angeles. ​I’m particularly proud of this poem, which I wrote as part of a workshop taught by Meg Day…

@ShabdaPress The Art of Loving

In the summer of 2011, during my second year studying in Goddard College’s Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program (poetry) in Plainfield, Vermont, I was sitting at my desk in Pasadena, California one night and decided to start a press, Shabda Press. The journey began in the dark, perhaps in the darkness of an egg, a woman’s womb or the womb of the earth. I had no idea how to start a…