POETRY COLLECTIONS & MANUSCRIPTS

Here you can find a complete listing of manuscripts that include a brief description, page count, and the status of availability. If you are seriously insterested in representing or publishing any of these works, please fill out the form on the CONTACT page.

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ROTOR ORGAN DAY DREAMER

​APOCRYPHAL SENTIMENTS

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• ​Rotor Organ Daydreamer (65 pages) is a full-length poetry collection that explores the intricate, lifelong relationship between the poet and music. Divided into four parts, the collection draws on the author’s experience as a pianist and flautist, weaving a lyrical narrative that spans classical compositions, contemporary sounds, and personal memory. Each poem resonates with the emotional texture of music itself. Themes of nostalgia, identity, discipline, and emotional release echo throughout the collection, revealing how music becomes both a language and a mirror for the self, much like a poem. From the intimate (“Bed of Roses”) to the spiritual (“Singers and God”) and the rebellious (“Grunge,” “NIN”), these poems capture music as a lifelong companion, teacher, and source of healing.

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• Apocryphal Sentiments is a 96-page poetry collection that explores the complexities of love and desire through an intimate, immediate voice. Structured as a dialogue with two very different men—representing the extremes of passion—the collection navigates the dualities of romance: the tender and the wild, the serene and the primal. Divided clearly to distinguish between “Naughty Love” and “Nice Love,” these poems delve into the hidden emotional and physical truths we carry, uncovering the raw, often unspoken facets of human connection. While the collection contains sexual content and innuendo, it serves a deliberate and expressive purpose—highlighting love in all its nuanced, multifaceted forms.​

SUPPLICANT

MAMA PROVIDENCE

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• Supplicant is a full-length poetry collection (79 pages) exploring the layered dimensions of the word supplicant—not only as one who pleads, but as an activist, aspirant, petitioner, lobbyist, and suitor. Structured in four sections, each part poses a central question reflecting inner conflict and outward engagement: What do I ask of others, of society, of myself? And how do I respond when I'm alone, vulnerable, or unheard? Through titles like "Activist", "Don't Tell Me", "I Want To Feel", and "Trust Department", the poems wrestle with themes of love, grief, social injustice, memory, and personal reckoning. This is a collection driven by yearning—whether for connection, clarity, justice, or self-acceptance. Each poem is a petition to be seen and understood, a voice rising from solitude to speak powerfully into the noise of the world.

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• Mama Providence is a deeply personal tribute to my two children—Donald and Annabelle—and the complex, emotional journey of motherhood through adoption and foster care. Written from the perspective of a woman who overcame infertility and bureaucratic hurdles to become a mother, the poems chronicle the joy, pain, hope, and heartbreak of raising children born of love rather than biology. From Donald’s adoption after years of waiting, to the wrenching loss of Annabelle after nurturing her from birth, the collection offers an intimate glimpse into what it means to mother in the face of uncertainty. Each poem is a testament to resilience, devotion, and the unbreakable bonds of chosen family.

CONVERSATIONS WE NEED TO HAVE

VULNERABLE THORNS

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• Conversations We Need To Have is a 29-page chapbook that brings raw honesty and emotional clarity to the forefront, confronting abuse in its many forms. Through 21 unflinching poems—each deserving a trigger warning—the collection explores the pain, silence, and survival that often accompany trauma. While some truths are laid bare, others linger in implication, challenging readers to face what is often left unsaid. This chapbook is not just a collection of poems—it’s a courageous act of witness, pushing us to engage with the difficult conversations we often avoid, but urgently need to have.

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• Vulnerable Thorns is a 33-page chapbook of 31 raw, introspective poems that delve into the complexities of identity and emotional survival. Unapologetically exposed and daring, the collection explores themes of mental health, personality disorder, and personal history with a reflective, often philosophical edge. Each poem invites the reader into a candid inner world where beauty and pain coexist—where vulnerability becomes both wound and weapon.

IT ENDS IN DIVORCE

CALAMITY DAME

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• It Ends In Divorce is an 84-page poetry collection chronicling the unraveling of a 22-year marriage. Through unflinching honesty and emotional depth, these poems trace the history of a shared life—from love and commitment to betrayal, trauma, and eventual separation. As a mother to an adopted child and a survivor of emotional and psychological abuse, the poet offers a deeply personal account of endurance, disillusionment, and the painful clarity that comes with letting go. With a content warning for abuse, trauma, and strong language, this collection stands as both testimony and release—a voice emerging from the wreckage with strength and truth.

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• Calamity Dame is a 60-page poetry collection that confronts the many faces of trauma with fierce honesty and unflinching voice. From chronic illness and neurodivergence to sexual assault and cancer, these poems bear witness to the body and mind under siege—and the resilience that emerges in the aftermath. With a content warning for abuse, rape, and strong language, this collection offers raw testimony to survival, pain, and the strength required to keep living through calamity after calamity. It is, ultimately, a reclamation of voice, power, and self.

PREMEDITATED

POESY PARKER

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• Premeditated is a 26-page chapbook featuring 24 sharply focused poems born from moments so vivid, they were nearly written before pen touched paper. Each piece captures a crystallized thought—conscious, deliberate, and emotionally charged. From reflections on the Beat poets to high school gossip, from murder to divorce, the collection weaves together memory, observation, and insight. These poems are intentional and introspective, offering a glimpse into the mind at the moment it decides to speak.

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• Poesy Parker is a 27-page chapbook celebrating the quiet beauty and unexpected inspiration found in public parks. Written in and about parks across Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming, these poems capture fleeting moments of stillness, connection, and reflection in natural spaces. With a wink to actress Parker Posey in its pun-filled title, this collection blends humor, landscape, and lyrical observation into a light-footed but deeply rooted poetic experience.

WATCH OUT FOR US PENTACOSTAL GIRLS

PUNCTUATED MOTHER

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• Watch Out for Us Pentecostal Girls will be a bold, intimate poetry collection that explores the tension between religious upbringing and personal unraveling. Structured in the form of a liturgy, the collection traces the speaker's journey from childhood in a strict Pentecostal household through trauma, mental health struggles, and eventual self-reclamation. The poems examine the sacred and the profane, often side by side—offering vulnerability, grit, and unexpected humor. The title comes from a poem that recounts a raw and unforgettable moment shortly after the poet's husband asked for a divorce and left, when chaos, faith, and shame collided in one night of reckoning. This book is not meant as blasphemy but as testimony—an offering of survival and voice.

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• Punctuated Mother is a 29-page collection that offers a chance glimpse into the complex world of foster and adoptive parenting. Through vivid, emotionally charged poems, the collection captures moments both ordinary and extraordinary—pancake mornings, birthday missions, sensory overloads, children moving homes, and visitation—each layered with the weight of love, loss, uncertainty, and resilience. These poems are not romanticized accounts but honest reflections from the inside, revealing the joys and turmoil of parenting children with complicated pasts. With tenderness and clarity, Punctuated Mother speaks to the fractured, beautiful reality of building a family in nontraditional ways.

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