Author's Publications and Honors
Poetry
"Porch Chairs", Best Poems of the 90s, 1998.
"Life in the Freezer", Best Poems of 1996, 1996.
"Random Acts of Kindness", Sparkles in the Sand Anthology, 1995.
"In Palermo", Honorable Mention, Distinguished Poets Award Contest, 1995.
"Bad Girls Do It", Best Poems of 1995, 1995.
"Safe Harbor", Editors' Choice Award, National Library of Poetry, 1994.
"Safe Harbor", Sparrowgrass, 1994.
"She Looks", Dusting off Dreams Anthology, 1994.
"Companions", Third Prize Editors' Choice Award In the Desert Sun Anthology, 1993.
"Sleep", Pegasus, 1993.
"Sea Treasures", Pegasus, 1993.Non Fiction
"Retention is the Last Resort", Education Week, 1999.
Icefields, Book Review, English Journal, 1998.
"Teaching Writing in the 1990s", English Journal, 1996.
"Redesigning Education", Book Review, The Council Chronicle, 1995.
"Words: Symbols of Morality", New York Times, 1992.
"Write, Now", NJEA Review, 1992.
"Vulgarity in the Classroom", NEA's Today's Education, 1992.
"Words: Language in the Middle School", The Middle School Journal, 1992.
"Comfortable Behind the Pen", Piagetian Theory in Education, 1991.