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Tanka Broadsides
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"Rainy Weather" appeared along with two of my other Tanka in the Spring, 2020 issue of Door is a Jar Magazine.
"Goldfinches" one of six poems inspired by a creek -- which runs through Beaverton and Tigard, Oregon -- selected by The Origami Poems Project for a microchap 'zine, Summer Creek.
"Kelsey Creek Shade", originally published by Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place and included in my collection, Food ♦ Family ♦ Friends, illustrated with this photo. I combined the two as a broadside and the City of Beaverton selected it as an #YourArtMoment in August 2019.
"Berries" among the pieces featured at Portland Mall Management Inc. Be Grateful event. Displayed on signs posted in the transit mall area (5th and 6th Ave. between Salmon and Burnside) in November 2015. Included in my collection, Food ♦ Family ♦ Friends.
"Brooks", originally published in Pairs of Poems, appeared on Twitter as part of Form.Reborn (Spring 2009) and in On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded onto Twitter (February 2010). Photo: Tryon Creek State Natural Area.