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Along with itinerant muse (Founder/Editor), I’ve done a few other things over the years. Here are the mentionable, writing-related ones.

Poetry
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Media
Readings
Other

PUBLICATIONS

Poems have appeared in:

  • New Brunswick (NJ) Public Library Annual Anthology, April 2005
  • The Newark Metro, 2003, 2005, 2006
  • U.S. 1 Newspaper Summer Fiction (and poetry) Issue, July 2000 & July 2001
  • The Poetry of Sex, Tee A. Corinne (Ed.). Edward-William Publishing Company, 1992.
  • The Portuguese Heritage Journal, 1992

Genre Short Fiction:
(some of these are as much tongue-in-cheek as they are tongue in other places...)

Creative non-fiction:

  • "Breathing Lessons" - Early Embraces, Lindsey Elder (Ed.). Alyson Publications, 1996.

Articles/essays/other non-fiction:

MEDIA

  • Writer/Producer/Host - "Monsterpiece Theater" - the best of the B (beastly, bloody, badass, just plain bad) flicks on PCTV-74 (not to be confused with the Seasame Street series!), 2005 - 2006

READINGS/EVENTS:

  • Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, April 19, 2006
  • New Brunswick (NJ) Public Library Annual Anthology Reading, April 25, 2005
  • The Telephone Bar, NYC, November 17, 2004
  • Curbside Metaphors, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, April 23, 2004 Voices of the City, mayor-sponsored poetry festival, Newark, NJ, April 18, 2004
  • Curbside Metaphors, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2003
  • Poetry Cypher, Crossroads Theater, New Brunswick, NJ, January 19, 2003
  • Wordsmiths at Halcyon Café, Brooklyn NY, April 11, 2002
  • Poets for Peace, Wordsmiths at Halcyon Café, Brooklyn NY, October 2001
  • Diversity in the Arts Festival, Plainfield, NJ, March 24, 2001 & February 19, 2000
  • A Different Light Bookstore (for New Victoria Press and All the Ways Home), New York, NY, June 1995
  • Outwrite Conference (for New Victoria Press and All the Ways Home), Boston, MA, March 1995
  • Café Newz, New Brunswick, NJ, April 1994. The highlight of this was being on the same bill as Cheryl Clarke!

OTHER:

  • Editor (as Paula Martins), Out of the Ashes, a novel by Skip Allen
  • Those commissioned poems for Dolores and that other lady at Ma's job. Thanks! You keep my spirit in business.

AWARDS:

  • 2002 Norcroft Residency
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