Publications

Writings

• Lines in Kwame Alexander's crowdsourced poem for NPR, "Love, Me," July 28, 2022.

• "The Feast" and "The Turning" (poems), Poetry Reading Online, an Anthology from Around the World, 2022.

• "Take Her Coat" (poem), Nutmeg Award (third place), 2021.

• "Pretending" (poem) "The Red Shoes Artists Book Project", published by Annell Livingston, 2011.

• “Vespers” (poem), Poet Tree, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008.

• “Cuchulainn” (poem) in Angel Animals, published by Linda and Allen Anderson, 2007.

• “A Late Winter Grammar” (poem), Perspectives, The Arts Council of Placer County, Auburn, CA, January/February 2006.

• “The Baby Dreams” (poem), Fresh Ink, Humanities Division, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, CT, 2006.

• “Walk Easy” (poem) in God’s Messengers: What Animals Teach Us About the Divine,” published by Linda and Allen Anderson, 2003.

• “Everyone Has a Star Inside” (essay) Healthbridge, Waterbury Hospital, Volume XIII, No. 3, Fall 2003.

• “A Late Winter Grammar” (poem), Manzanita, Poetry & Prose of the Mother Lode & Sierra, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 4, 2002.

• American Irish Newsletter, 1992-2002
  The Newsletter was the publication of the American Irish Political Education Committee, a grassroots activist organization that worked through the American democratic process to influence US policy with regard to Ireland. I worked full-time with the PEC after I completed my MA until I moved on to work as a newspaper writer closer to home. This volunteer group worked tirelessly--and effectively--to address negative stereotypes about the American Irish, to inform members about the contributions of Irish immigrants to the development of this nation, and to influence elected officials to take informed, ethical positions when it was time to act on American-Irish political issues.

• “Heather” (poem), The Larcom Review, A Journal of the Arts and Literature of New England, The Larcom Press, Prides Crossing, MA, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2000.

• “Autumn Fire” (poem), The Paumanok Review, Fall 2002.

• “Wooden Bowl” (poem), The Paumanok Review, Fall 2002.

• “Ireland Struggles with a Reluctant Peace” (essay) Connecticut Review, Volume XXII, No. 1, Spring 2000, with Charles P. Mullaney.

• “Seagull Memory” (poem), Kimera, Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 1999. Spokane, WA.

• “Cuchulainn” (poem), Penworks, Trumbull (Connecticut) Arts Festival, 1998. (honorable mention)

• "Two Seagulls in February" (poem) Penworks, Trumbull (Connecticut) Arts Festival, 1998. (second place)

• “Our Hope of You Is Steadfast” (fiction), Artisan, a Journal of Craft, Wilmette, IL, Spring 1998.

• “Our Hope of You Is Steadfast” (fiction), Penworks, Trumbull (Connecticut) Arts Festival, 1997. (honorable mention)

• “The Literature of Terror” (essay), Garm Lu, A Canadian Celtic Arts Journal, No. 19, 1996.

• “Errigal I” (poem), Garm Lu, A Canadian Celtic Arts Journal, No. 18, 1995.

• “Learning Irish in Donegal,” Ireland of the Welcomes, Vol. 44, No. 3, May-June 1995.

• “Funding the Movement” (fiction), Waterford Review, Waterford, Ireland, 1994. (first place)

• And, Though Gentle (play) (unpublished) 1994.

• “World War Won” (poem), Struggle Magazine, Detroit, MI, 1994.

• “James Joyce’s Irish Nationalism” (research paper) The Arkansas Quarterly, a Journal of Criticism, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fall 1993.

• “The Making a Woman” (play), Struggle Magazine, Detroit, MI, 1993.

• “An American Injustice: Irish Political Prisoner Joseph Patrick Doherty” (essay) The Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1989.

• Contributions to laJoie over the years. This is a great little magazine that Rita Reynolds of Afton, Virginia, puts together four times a year to celebrate the animal-human relationship and the wisdom to be found there. Rita has honored me several times over the years by including my work in her beautiful quarterly.
  + “Natural Selection” (poem) Spring 2003
  + “Walk Easy” (poem) Fall 2001
  + “Review of A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold, Summer 2000
  + “For Connecticut Beavers, It’s the Pipe System or Be Dammed” (research) Winter 1999
  + “Cuchulainn” (poem), Summer 1998
  + “A Family Struggles to Green an Irish Mountain” (essay), Spring 1998

Presentations

• Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, August 18, 2022

• Reading of new works at open mic hosted by Arts Escape, Inc., of Southbury, August 4, 2022.

• "Words That Matter" four-session reading and writing workshop at Woodbury Senior and Community Center, July 11 - August 2, 2022.

• Reading of new works at open mic hosted by Arts Escape, Inc., of Southbury, July 7, 2022.

• Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, June 16, 2022.

• Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, May 19, 2022.

• Interview with "This One Thing I Do" podcast, January, 2022.

• Interview with "Woodbury Talks" podcast, December 18, 2021.

• Reading of new works at "Spoken Word Event," hosted by Studio Hill Gallery and the Arts Alliance of Woodbury, December 16, 2021, Woodbury Public Library.

• "Poetry Reading and Author Talk with Sandy Carlson," November 12, 2020, Woodbury Public Library Zoom.

• “The ‘I’ in Pearse: an Irish Revolutionary’s Choice of Voice” for a New Aesthetic,” “The Presence of the Past: 1798-1998,” Tenth Graduate Irish Studies Conference, March 27-29, 1998, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

• Is Peace in Ireland Dead? (lecture), Western Connecticut State University History Society, Danbury, Connecticut, 1996.

• “The Writing on the Wall” (multimedia creativity seminar), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT., Spring, 1994.

• “James Joyce’s Irish Nationalism,” (paper) presented at “Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Ethnicity” Conference at University of West Virginia, Morgantown, March 4, 1994. (Later presented at the University of Texas, Austin.)

• Radio interview and programs concerning Irish issues, WXCI Radio, Danbury, CT; WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

Photos

• “Strange Attractions: Street Art” photo exhibition of street art at the Funky Monkey Cafe & Gallery, Cheshire, CT, April 30 - May 27, 2008.

• “The Writing on the Wall,” photo exhibit of street art, Bethel Cinema, Bethel, CT, 1994.

• Photos of Political Prisoners’ Art in Troubled Images, Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict from the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, The Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2001. (Press Release) (Program Folder)

• Scairt Amach/Shout Out, Irish Republican Prisoners’ Art (photograph exhibition), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, March, 1993.
  This exhibition explores the significance of the creative and artistic output of political prisoners during the political conflict about the place and purpose of the British in Northern Ireland during the “Troubles.” The exhibit, which is now part of the political collection of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, Northern Ireland, also toured Mercy College in White Plains, NY; the New Haven Feis in New Haven, CT; and the Irish Arts Center in New York, NY.