Writings

• The poem "Dust" in musician Sarah Marze's book Let Us Sing!, poems set to music for young voices, October 7, 2022.

• 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, and  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2005.

• "Holy Tuesday, April 3," meditation, Ashes to Alleluia, St. John's Parish on the Green, Waterbury, CT  2007.

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

• "First Robin," poem, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 2007.

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

• "My Daughter Wants a Dog," book review, laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2005.

• “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.  

• Review of In Our Strange Gardens in Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Summer 2002.

• "Mostly Water," "Derby Day," and "Two Crows" (poems) in Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Spring 2002.

• "The Deer" (short story),  in Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Fall 2001.

• "Walk Easy" (poem), laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2001.

• "A Late Winter Grammar" (poem), Manzanita: Literary Journal of the Mother Lode and Sierra, San Andreas, CA, Vol. 4, October 2001.

• “Autumn Fire” (poem), The Paumanok Review, Fall 2000.

• “Wooden Bowl” (poem), The Paumanok Review, Fall 2000. 

• "The Sound Was a Sea," "Walk in the Garden," and "Song" (poems),  in Whistling Shade, St. Paul, MN, Summer 2001.

• “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.

• "Winter Sound" (poem), Poetry Motel Wallpaper Series, Duluth, MN, Winter 2000.

• "Easter Without Text" (poem),  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Fall 2000.

• Review of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac,  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Summer 2000.

• “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.

• "Dogs in the Manger" (poem),  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Winter 1999.

• "For Connecticut Beavers, It's the Pipe System or be Dammed" (magazine article),  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 1999.

• "Cuchulainn" (poem),  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Summer 1998.

• "An Irish Family Struggles to Green an Irish Mountain" (article)  laJoie and Company, Batesville, VA, Spring 1998.

• "Seven Wild Turkeys" and 'Sea Shells" (poems), Poets' Paper, Easton, PA, 1998.

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

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

• "Plymouth" (magazine article) Cape Cod Guide, South Chatham, MA, Summer 1998.

• “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)

• "Connecticut" (poem), International Poets, Peterborough, England, 1997.

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

• "The Bridgewater Mill" (essay), Bridgewater Historical Society, Bridgewater, CT, 1996. (contest winner)

• “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.

• "Recollection" (poem). Pathfinders, Peterborough, England, 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; Schmaga, Vallejo, CA, July 1994; and Common Lives Quarterly, Iowa City, IO, Issue 53. 

• “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.

Presentations

• Reading of works from Mother Tongue and "Who's Your Team?" at Fumfa's Open Mic, hosted by Fairfield University MFA Graduates Chris Belden and Katie Schneider, February 19, 2023.

• Reading of works from Mother Tongue online with Fumfalive, hosted by Fairfield University MFA Graduates Chris Belden and Katie Schneider, February 19, 2023.

• Presentation "Poetry Builds Community" to the Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society's congregation, February 19, 2023.

• Reading "Where You're From" and "Mother and Child" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, February, 2023.

• Reading selections from Slow Passage Home and Mother Tongue at the Studio Hill open mic, January 26, 2023.

• Reading "Love Among the Ruins" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, January, 2023.

• Reading "A Christmas Story" at the Peace Poetry Reading by area poets laureate  Zoom.  Hosted by Jim Gallagher of Goshen.

• Reading commemorative poem "Southbury, Connecticut, Defeats Local Nazis in 1937" at the 85th Anniversary Celebration of When Southbury Said No to the Nazis, Wyndham Hotel, Southbury, Connecticut, November 12, 2022.

• Reading of the poems "One Deer" and "Clothesline" at the event Poetry Reading at Riverbound Farm Sanctuary," in Cheshire, Connecticut, October 9, 2022.

• Reading of the poem "Clothesline" on the Arts Escape (Southbury) monthly open mic, October 6, 2022.

• Reading of works online with Fumfalive, hosted by Chris Belden and Fairfield University MFA Graduate Katie Schneider, September 11, 2022.

• 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.

• Readings from Seventeen Park Lane and Silent Spaces at the Northwest Corner Writers' Group's June meeting in Goshen, CT.

• Reading of "Oak Leaves" and "At Bethany" at Bethlehem (CT) Library's October, 2005, Literary Coffee House.

• Reading from Seventeen Park Lane at The Silo Gallery in conjunction with Western Connecticut State University, in New Milford, Connecticut, 2004.

• “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. (Later presented at Bethel Cinema, Bethel, CT, 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.)

• "Scairt Amach, Irish Republican Prisoners' Art" (photograph exhibition), Western Connecticut State University, Danbury; Mercy College, White Plains, NY; New Haven Feis, New Haven, CT; Irish Arts Center, New York, NY.  The exhibition is now a permanent part of the political collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Radio interview and programs concerning Irish issues, WXCI Radio, Danbury, CT; WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT, 1990-1994.

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.