Formalist Poet. Heathen. Brave New Weird Award winner. 6 books. Usual noms. I sometimes write prose. My 140 year old house is haunted. That's why I bought it.
Cold Pacific North West Coast
Joined November 2019
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My contributor's copy and my Brave New Weird award certificate from @TenebrousPress have arrived. I am so honored. They look hauntingly sublime. @HorrorWriters @sfpoetry @Mae_Westside
Honored and delighted to have a poem in The Green Sheaf's Issue 6: The Crone. Perfect season for this!
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Delighted to have two poems appear in the enigmatical Dodo Eraser today!
Today on Dodo Eraser, we have two new poems from @PoetForest. Please read “I Mentally Rehearse Before Every Encounter…” and “Now She’s Googling How to Hose Wet Paint Off of Stucco.”
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An extremely timely review of my poem "Malum Folium Germinabunt" by Mick Staniforth. An unexpected honor!
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Delighted to say that I have a sonnet in @newversereview's Halloween issue alongside the highly talented likes of @jennifereeser and @katieabeswick (among others). newversereview.com/
NVR's 2026 Halloween issue is now available! Featuring poems by @PoetForest @jennifereeser @katieabeswick @timothygreen @dpatsheehan @MidgeGoldberg @s_e_ashbach Timothy Steele, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Susan McLean, Matthew Buckley Smith, Ellen Kaufman, Gregory Emilio, and others.
If you ask me, that's another not-deer...look carefully at its coat (photo taken at my son's place, high in the coastal hills).
My dark sci-fi sonnet is up in Kismet. (It was accepted over a year ago, please excuse the old bio. ) thekismetmagazine.com/2026/0…
I have two poems in this anthology from Middle West Press. One is one from my handsome devil series.
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Here is the link to my "Quiet Children" exhibition sonnet (and the haunted doll to go with it), being auctioned off on eBay:
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Only 2 more days until the Opening and my haunted doll sonnet and its accompanying haunted doll greet the dark world! The auction for them opens on Saturday--own your own piece of diabolical dolldom...if you dare.
Delighted to have 2 poems in this quirky anthology. 1 concerns the-perfect-man-droid, 1 presents a half-drowned dragon. Lighter than my usual fare...or are they? pub518.com/
I have a Fibonacci sonnet concerning Freya (and cats) in this upcoming anthology. Heathen that I am, Freya has always been one of my favorite magic-wielders / witches...
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A snappy little werewolf story of mine is up at Flash Phantoms:
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I ordered a used copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's Tales of Mystery & The Macabre, but Alfred Hitchcock's Stories That Go Bump in the Night arrived instead. What is the universe telling me now?
Darkly (and damply) delighted to have a mermaid piece, "Songs For the Drowning", on 100 Word Fiction today: 100wordfiction.com/story.php…
My husband's birthday falls this month, and this York Ghost just arrived for him. (His 9th!) As for the words: we're still fixing up this haunted house of ours -- ghosts, candlesticks and mayhem make up the content of our lives lately. In the best gloomy ways. @FarmerHacker
Yes! Yes! Yes! One of my favorite Handsome Devil poems just got accepted to an anthology. Their form puts editors off, I think, but...little by little, they are finding places in the literary (under)world. Yes!
Darkly delighted to have a commissioned sonnet paired to a haunted/ haunting baby-doll in this exhibition:
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