PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS

"Homecoming" appears in 50/50: Words & Images for Didi Menendez.
This anthology contains poems, essays, and visual works from writers
and poets who have been published by Didi Menendez in MiPOesias magazine,
OCHO, Poets and Artists (O&S), or books.

Interview with Chris Abani in Union Station, July 2010

"O Three-Eyed Lord" and "Restorer at the National Gallery, Kabul" appear in The November 3rd Club, Winter 2010 issue.

"Oceanside, CA" won 2nd place in the 2010 Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Split This Rock

"Strike Anywhere" and "The Loud Town" appear in OCHO #29, Winter 2010. OCHO

"Dragonface Pipefish" appears in Canary, Issue 7, Winter 2009-10. Canary

Pushcart Prize nomination, Nov. 2009, by TIFERET: "The Questions Themselves"

"Campaign Season" appears in RATTLE #32, Winter 2009. RATTLE

"Octopus Attack!," "The Town of Broken Bones," and "The Town of Snakes"
appear in PANK 4.11, November 2009. PANK

"Husband Returns as Parrot" appears in Redheaded Stepchild, Winter 2009.
Redheaded Stepchild

"Laundry Day" received 1st Honorable Mention in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild NY state-wide poetry contest, November 2009.

"Invisible in Me" in the Self-Portrait issue of Oranges & Sardines, September 2009. Oranges & Sardines

"O Mary" in the Naugatuck River Review, Summer 2009. Naugatuck River Review

"Ode to the Leech" appears in Holly Rose Review, June 2009. Holly Rose Review

"Liver" and "Lungs" appear in Pebble Lake Review, Health and Illness Issue, 2009.
Pebble Lake Review

"I Celebrate the Husband" in OCHO #24, featuring Twitter Poets, June, 2009.
OCHO #24

"Offering" in TIFERET, Issue 9. TIFERET

"Trust Is a Silent Thing" in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Vol. 25, no. 1, Winter 2009, CALYX Journal

"Cabana Boy," "Crooked Climb Toward Marriage," "Possessions," and "Nepenthe" in the December 2008, Vol. 22, Issue 8 of MiPOesias

Pushcart Nomination, November 2008: "Trip To Angel Falls, So Named In 1937 In Honor of Jimmy Angel, the White Bush Pilot Who 'Discovered' the Falls While Searching For Gold In Venezuela"

"Hambrienta," "Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela," "Canaima, Venezuela," and "Trip To Angel Falls, So Named In 1937 In Honor of Jimmy Angel, the White Bush Pilot Who 'Discovered' the Falls While Searching For Gold In Venezuela" in the Acentos Review

"A Good Night's Rest" in Lumina, Vol. VII", Lumina

"Walking in Winter" in the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from
the Wom-Po Listserv, Red Hen Press, 2008

"Volunteering After 9/11" and "Subway" Spindle

"Snapshot," in the women's anthology HIS RIB: stories, poems & essays by HER, Penmanship Publishing Group, 2007

"Like a Book" and "Walking In Winter" The 2River View