Selected Writings

Books

	"Nursling of the Sky", a poetry chapbook (Plan B Press, 2024)
	If The Storm Clears, an anthology of the sublime, includes my fiction, "The Word Wrangler" (Blue Cactus Press, 2024)
	Rooted 2, an anthology of tree nonfiction, includes my essay, "The Power of Placement" (Outpost19, 2023)
	sp., a poetry chapbook (The Operating System, 2017) (or contact me to purchase a print copy)
	Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia, 2d ed. (AMC Books, 2018)
	The Wild Here and Now (Arboreality Press, 2013) Reviews of the book
	Outdoors With Kids - Philadelphia (AMC Books, 2013) Reviews of the book
	Co-editor, Land for Life, a Handbook on Caring for Natural Lands (Natural Lands Trust, 2d ed. 2014). (Out of print.) (1st ed. published as Stewardship Handbook for Natural Lands in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2009). Revised 2024 by Natural Lands and now hosted at WeConservePA.

Business, Nonprofit and Educational Communication

• I do business and nonprofit communications (writing and editing), including grantwriting, reports, newsletters, press releases, catalogs, brochures, educational and marketing materials. See more at Arkosic Associates, LLC.
• Recent projects:
  • The Great Outdoors, Habitat, River Watch and other features, in River Towns magazine
  • Features for Bucks County Herald and Bucks Family magazine
  • Content for Delaware River tour, St Michaels Farm Preserve and Healing Trails guide in Travel Storys app for D&R Greenway Land Trust
  • Work for Delaware Canal 21

Fiction

• "Blue Eyes," in The Literary Hatchet #39, May 2025
• "The Word Wrangler," in The Airgonaut, March 2023
• "Fifty-fifty," in Quantum Muse, May 2006

Selected Poems and Awards

• "Scorecard" in Thimble Literary Magazine, Summer 2025
• "The Birds and Saint Francis" in The Russell Streur Nature Poetry Anthology, 2025
• "On Hearing Toads Again" in Ambient Receiver: Journal of Creative Ecologies, Summer 2025
• "Night Meditation" in Blue Unicorn, Spring 2024
• "Ode to Joy" in Poet's Corner (Bucks County Herald), Dec. 7, 2023
• 2 poems in Clade Song 12
• "Earth ffff," in Magma, Issue 81, 2021 (Anthropocene)
• "Grass Song," in Cider Press Review, August 2021 (read and listen)
• Two poems in Amethyst Review: "Vesper Bluets at Marsh Creek Lake" , March 2021 and "Autumn Altar", September 2021.
• "Crossing Harvey Run," in Redactions, May 2019.
• "[wrath of pansy]" in Scripta, Spring 2019.
• "Lot's Wife" on What Rough Beast, 26 Nov 2017.
• 3 pieces in Storyscape Issue 18, 2017
• "I Am Not Who I Am," on What Rough Beast, 21 Feb 2017.
• "Site-Specific Grid," in Denver Quarterly, vol. 51 no. 2 (2017).
• "Giant Steps": in (dis)honor of Dada's 100th anniversary.
• Two poems, in The Wax Paper, Issue Four (2016).
• "The Out Years," in the inaugural (Summer 2016) issue of The Matador Review, nominated for Best of the Net.
• Honorable Mention, 2015 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize for "There Are Rumors"
• 2 poems in Posit, Issue 8 (2015) (one of which was nominated for Best of the Net).
• 3 poems in Arsenic Lobster Spring 2015.
• "How to Move a Mountain" and "I Stand At Your Gate and I Sing You a Song" in Gargoyle, Issue 62.
• "Hollows" and "To Catch the Ocean in Your Bucket..." in Cleaver Magazine, Issue 6.
• "R&R" in Blue Lake Review, May 2014
• Honorable Mention, 2013 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize for "Conveyance"
• "But Beautiful" in Paper Nautilus, 2013
• "Wading," in Prick of the Spindle, vol. 7.2 June 2013.
• "Three Conversations", in Apiary 5, December 2012.
• "Pech Merle: Negative Space,"included in "Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image," exhibit at the Michener Museum of Art, November 3, 2012-March 31, 2013.
• Finalist, Orange Monkey Chapbook Contest, 2012
• "In Her Garden" and "Poets Walk" published in Spring 2012 Schuylkill Valley Journal.
• "Walking Up Buttermilk Falls,"published in Spring 2012 U.S. 1 Worksheets.
• Finalist, Robert Fraser Open Poetry Competition, 2012
• "Stunning Counts," published in July 27, 2011 issue of U.S.1
• "Snowflakes" and "Flower Girl", published in Spring 2011 Schuylkill Valley Journal.
• In the Wawa, published in Fall 2010 Schuylkill Valley Journal, nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• At This Writing
  
• The Presence of Absence
  
• For Columbia