Selected Writings
Books
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NEW!! Now available: my poetry chapbook, "Nursling of the Sky" (Plan B Press, 2024) |
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If The Storm Clears, an anthology of the sublime, includes my fiction, "The Word Wrangler" (Blue Cactus Press, 2024) |
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Rooted 2, an anthology of tree nonfiction, includes my essay, "The Power of Placement" (Outpost19, 2023) |
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Sp., a poetry chapbook (The Operating System, 2017) (or contact me to purchase a print copy)
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Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia, 2d ed. (AMC Books, 2018)
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The Wild Here and Now (Arboreality Press, 2013)
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Outdoors With Kids - Philadelphia (AMC Books, 2013)
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Co-editor, Land for Life, a Handbook on Caring for Natural Lands (Natural Lands Trust, 2d ed. 2014). (1st ed. published as Stewardship Handbook for Natural Lands in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2009).
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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:
Fiction
- "The Word Wrangler," in The Airgonaut, March 2023
- "Fifty-fifty," Quantum Muse, May 2006
Selected Poems and Awards
- "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
- Runnerup, 2013 Gambling the Aisle
Chapbook Contest
- "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
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