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Tamsen Donner
North American Review
March 19, 2024

Falling Apart
Thin Air
Upcoming Issue

Identity Verification Website
Pirene’s Fountain
Upcoming Issue

Psalm 23
Pirene’s Fountain
Upcoming Issue

Publications and Awards

 

West Portal Ledger
San Antonio Review
January 2024

Barbie’s House, Circa 1960
San Antonio Review
January 2024

Med School Interview, 1975
Marin Poetry Center Anthology
2023

Ode to a Cordless Lightweight Stick Vacuum Cleaner
One Art
Nov. 15, 2023

Intermission
One Art
Nov. 15, 2023

Exigencies
One Art
Nov. 15, 2023

The Cloisters Museum
Long River Review 2023

Astrology
Mudlark Flash
No.169 Fall 2023

Marble Witch
Mudlark Flash
No.169 Fall 2023

Tomatoes
Pink Panther Magazine
Volume 14, Number 2 Issue

Phantom Limb
Open Ceilings
Summer 2023 Issue, Exit 71

Self-portrait of a Doctor as a Young Woman
The Lake
September 2023 Issue

A San Francisco Summer Solstice
El Portal
Vol. 81 No. 1 Spring 2023

Chipped
ellipsis… literature & art
Volume 59/April 21, 2023

Murder of a Flea
Glint Literary Journal
Issue 13, Winter 2022

A Man Naps On My Front Porch
The Sepia Journal
October 2022 issue 6

Houdini’s Mother
Sierra Nevada Review
Volume 33/2022

Indian Residential School Elegy
Sierra Nevada Review
Volume 33/2022

How to Fall in Love Again
Sierra Nevada Review
Volume 33/2022

Halloween Was Never What It Used to Be
Quail Bell Magazine
October 23, 2022

Temporary Crown
Quail Bell Magazine
October 23, 2022

Med School Interview, 1975
Medicine and Meaning
Volume 6

Peregrine Falcon Nest Cam
I-70 Review
Summer/Fall 2022

 

While Waiting for My Husband to Finish His Seventh Big Sur Marathon,

I Ponder the Meaning of Life

First Honorable Mention
Poet Hunt 27, judged by Lynne Thompson
The MacGuffin

 

Years from Now
Delmarva Review
Republished on Spy community newspapers of Maryland

Blue Year
Stirring
Summer 2022 Vol. 24 Ed. 3

Unruly Sonnet after January 6th
Persimmon Tree
June 2022

Bathroom Entomology
Perceptions Magazine
2022 issue

On the Beach, The Sequel: Caribbean Golem
Perceptions Magazine
2022 issue

Mama Minnie
Pennsylvania English
Vol. 42.2 Winter 2021/2022

Desire
Flapper Press
April 2022

Goddess at Big Sur
Flapper Press
April 2022

So Many Ways to Return to the Mother
Flapper Press
April 2022

Some Thoughts After Watching the News About Space Tourism
Flapper Press
April 2022

Venetian Sotopòrtego Where the Plague Stopped
Flapper Press
April 2022

Daylight Savings
The Rail
April 1, 2022 issue

Entomophagy at San Francisco’s Pier 39
The Rail
April 1, 2022 issue

Valentine 

Second Prize Winner
Valentine Blackout Poetry Contest 2022
Flapper Press

First Photos
The Nonconformist Magazine
February 2022

Ways to Know Your Father Has Alzheimer’s 

Honorable Mention
Prose Poem Category
2021 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition

On the Occasion of the Final Anatomy Exam 

Honorable Mention
Janice Farrell Poetry Prize Category
2021 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition

 

Men Talk to Women—Cassette Tape Thanksgiving, 1964
The Opiate Literary Magazine
Winter 2022 Vol. 28

Depression
The Opiate Literary Magazine
Winter 2022 Vol. 28

Beware the Timeshare Presentation
The Opiate Literary Magazine
Winter 2022 Vol. 28

Ways to Know Your Father Has Alzheimer’s

Nominated for a 2021 Pushcart prize!
Ponder Review
Volume 5, Issue 2   2021

A Poem About the Ending
Bite-sized Poems Anthology
Ellen Summerfield, 2021

Years from Now
Delmarva Review
Volume 14   2021 issue

A Big Man in His Van
Poetry Quarterly
Summer 2021

Nancy Drew and Lilith and Massage
Avatar Review
Spring 2021

Tumbling Through a Faucet
Moon City Review
2021 issue

My Romance with the Black Wool Coat
Green Hills Literary Lantern
Vol. XXXII, July 21, 2021

Snake and Of Mere Living
The Fourth River
April 15, 2021

 

Bird and Beckett Bookstore, San Francisco and Dog Path at Fort Funston, San Francisco
Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here
Blue Light Press Anthology, 2021

 

My Romance with the Black Wool Coat
The MacGuffin
Nominated for Best New Poets 2021!

 

Ants and My Romance with the Black Wool Coat
The MacGuffin
Vol. 37.1

Quan Yin 
The Penmen Review
April 12, 2021

Why We Need You, Molly Picon
Forward
March 22, 2021

Elijah
Louisiana Literature
Vol. 37 No.2

Regret
Spoon River Poetry Review
Winter 2020, 45.2

 

Regret

Second Prize
Janice Farrell Poetry Prize Category
2020 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition

 

Of Mere Living and California Fires Everywhere

Honorable Mentions
Janice Farrell Poetry Prize Category
2020 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition

Prelude to Pandemic
Plainsongs
Winter 2021, page 81

Lucky
Rising Phoenix Review
December 14, 2020

Kaddish Duplex
Good Works Review
November 2020

Toxicants and Returning to Muir Woods, Yom Kippur 5781
Voices de la Luna
November 2020 Vol.13, Number 1

Ode to Estate Sales
Transformation
Marin Poetry Center Anthology Vol. XXIII, 2020

Paradigm Shift
San Francisco Public Library “Poem of the Day”
December 18, 2020

California Fires Everywhere
Rising Phoenix Review
December 14, 2020

A Few Men, A Few Ropes, Power Saws
AGNI
AGNI 92

To the Moon and Duplex
Good Works Review 
2020 Issue

Searching for Robin Williams
Flights
2020

Harvest
Pulp Poets Press
August 13, 2020

How to Explain
Belle Ombre
August 3, 2020

A Cento for Michelle Bitting
Penumbra
2020 Vol. 30, p. 87

A Poem About the Ending
DASH
Spring 2020, Vol. 13

Ode to House Plants
Permafrost
Issue 42.1

Lifeboat
The Permanente Journal
Spring 2020, Vol. 24

Let It Never End
Birdland Journal
Spring 2020

Hooked
Saranac Review
No.15, 2019

My Body Was Never My Body
Poydras Review
October 7, 2019

Wilderness Therapy
The Wild
Marin Poetry Center Anthology Vol. XXII, 2019

Rush Hour
The Midwest Quarterly
Vol. 60, No. 4, Summer 2019

Death of Sound

Finalist, 2018 Rash Award in Poetry
Broad River Review
Volume 51, 2019

Julian Bream’s Guitar
The Manhattanville Review
Spring 2019

Wilderness Therapy
Alexandria Quarterly
Spring 2019

Early Esalen Morning
Esalen Catalogue, page 27
July – December, 2019

Home Office Conference Nightmare and What to Talk About
The Cape Rock
Issue 47, 2019

Tech Talk and Love at Farley’s Café
typishly
April 8, 2019

Board Meeting
HitchLit Review
Vol. 2, Issue 2, January 2019

“Back Roads”
Schuylkill Valley Journal
Vol. 47, Fall 2018

We Have This Pullout Sofa
Love’s Executive Order
November 2018

It’s a Wet Rich Poor Sick Beautiful World
Salt Hill Journal
Issue 41

L.A. Rain
Sheila-Na-Gig
Fall 2018

My Daughter Spoke of the Resistance 
Drunk Monkeys
May 7, 2018

The Beauty of Me is That I Am Very Rich

and What I Heard About the Fires
The Ignatian Literary Magazine
2018

The Life of the Jewish Soul Sucked Out
Tikkun Magazine
Vol. 33, Number 1-2

Thirty-Six Ride the Ghost Ship
The Chattahoochee Review
Volume 38.1

Cold and Ancestors
Red Savina Review
Volume 6 Issue 1

Ode to Health Nuts and Beach Cafe
Mudlark Flash
2018

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
Canary
January 2018

Bend The Curve
Paragon Journal – Page 62
December 2017

I Said Please Instead Of Open The Fuck Up!
Love’s Executive Order!
December 2017

Eggs
TSR: The Southampton Review
December 2017

If and Song of Songs
Word Fountain
Fall/Winter 2017

The Resistance
The Dunes Review
Summer/Fall 2017

Wallowa Lake Tramway, Oregon
Catamaran Literary Reader
Vol. 5/Issue 3 Fall 2017

Runaway Mother
apt
Fall, 2017

Oatmeal
These Fragile Lilacs
Volume III, Issue I 2017

Save Me a Panther
These Fragile Lilacs
Volume III, Issue I 2017

Ode to Estate Sales
McNeese
Vol 54. 2017

A Little Remains
McNeese
Vol. 54 2017

Naiad’s Den
Common Ground Review
Spring/Summer 19.1

Stewie the Neighbor’s Borderline Squirrel
Common Ground Review
Spring/Summer 19.1

Dishwashers
Crack the Spine
15th Print Anthology
The Question Posted by a Client from the Hospital
Whistling Shade
Spring/Summer 2017, page 25
Tea
The Round
2017
The Annual Donation Request Reminds Me
Alyss Issue 4, 2017
Grief Workshop
Tiger’s Eye Issue 26, 2017
The History of Coffee
Tiger’s Eye Issue 26, 2017
The Pedicurist
Third Wednesday Vol. X, No. 1
The Day America Killed Itself
Tikkun January 22, 2017
Ideal Cities
2016 Poets Eleven Anthology
Fall 2016
Award Winner
A Hope for Technology
2016 Poets Eleven Anthology
Fall 2016
Award Winner
French Quarter
2016 Poets Eleven Anthology
Fall 2016
Award Winner
On Dreamless Sleep
Scream Online (mini-anthology)
Fall 2016
Trees
Big Muddy
Volume 16.1, 2016
Linguine with Clams
TSR: The Southampton Review
Summer 2016
Seventh Grade
The Binnacle
June, 2016
Dishwashers
Crack the Spine
May, 2016
Bird and Beckett Bookstore
Willow Review, Volume XLIII,
Spring 2016
Still Arguing With Old Synagogue
2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award, Poetica Magazine
Finalist

Losing Teeth
Burningword Literary Journal
October 2015
 
Women and the Western Wall
Poetica Magazine
Fall 2015
Women
Adanna
Summer 2015
Dog Path at Fort Funston, San Francisco
Forge, Issue 9.1
July 2015

I Want to Find My Soul Through The Wormhole

OxMag
Spring 2015

The P Word

Tikkun
August 2014
County Hospital Residents [On Air Reading]
The Healing Muse
Volume 14, 2014
Now Is The Time
Poetica Magazine
Summer 2013
Not Knowing
The Reform Jewish Quarterly
Summer 2012
Depression Session
Pulse
2012
Lifeboat
Leaflet, Vol #2, Issue #2
2012
Tzelofhad’s Daughters
Poetica Magazine
Summer 2011
Morning at Esalen
The Healing Art of Writing
Vol.1 (2011), Watts
It Sometimes Happens
The Healing Art of Writing
Vol.1 (2011), Watts
Sunday Morning and the Gulf Oil Spill
Tikkun
Spring 2010