Selected Writings

Books

	Rooted 2, an anthology of tree nonfiction, includes my essay, "The Power of Placement" (Outpost19, 2023)
	Sp., a poetry chapbook (The Operating System, 2017) (or contact me to purchase a print copy)
	Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia, 2d ed. (AMC Books, 2018)
	The Wild Here and Now (Arboreality Press, 2013) Reviews of the book
	Outdoors With Kids - Philadelphia (AMC Books, 2013) Reviews of the book
	Co-editor, Land for Life, a Handbook on Caring for Natural Lands (Natural Lands Trust, 2d ed. 2014). (1st ed. published as Stewardship Handbook for Natural Lands in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2009).

Business, Nonprofit and Educational Communication

• I do business and nonprofit communications (writing and editing), including grantwriting, reports, newsletters, press releases, catalogs, brochures, educational and marketing materials. See more at Arkosic Associates, LLC.
• Recent projects:
  • The Great Outdoors, Habitat, and other features, in River Towns magazine
  • Features for Bucks County Herald
  • Content for Delaware River tour, St Michaels Farm Preserve and Healing Trails guide in Travel Storys app for D&R Greenway Land Trust
  • Work for Delaware Canal 21

Fiction

• "The Word Wrangler," in The Airgonaut, March 2023
• "Fifty-fifty," Quantum Muse, May 2006

Selected Poems and Awards

• 2 poems in Clade Song 12
• "Earth ffff," in Magma, Issue 81, 2021 (Anthropocene)
• "Grass Song," in Cider Press Review, August 2021 (read and listen)
• Two poems in Amethyst Review: "Vesper Bluets at Marsh Creek Lake" , March 2021 and "Autumn Altar", September 2021.
• "Crossing Harvey Run," in Redactions, May 2019.
• "[wrath of pansy]" in Scripta, Spring 2019.
• "Lot's Wife" on What Rough Beast, 26 Nov 2017.
• 3 pieces in Storyscape Issue 18, 2017
• "I Am Not Who I Am," on What Rough Beast, 21 Feb 2017.
• "Site-Specific Grid," in Denver Quarterly, vol. 51 no. 2 (2017).
• "Giant Steps": in (dis)honor of Dada's 100th anniversary.
• Two poems, in The Wax Paper, Issue Four (2016).
• "The Out Years," in the inaugural (Summer 2016) issue of The Matador Review, nominated for Best of the Net.
• Honorable Mention, 2015 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize for "There Are Rumors"
• 2 poems in Posit, Issue 8 (2015) (one of which was nominated for Best of the Net).
• 3 poems in Arsenic Lobster Spring 2015.
• "How to Move a Mountain" and "I Stand At Your Gate and I Sing You a Song" in Gargoyle, Issue 62.
• "Hollows" and "To Catch the Ocean in Your Bucket..." in Cleaver Magazine, Issue 6.
• "R&R" in Blue Lake Review, May 2014
• Honorable Mention, 2013 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize for "Conveyance"
• "But Beautiful" in Paper Nautilus, 2013
• Runnerup, 2013 Gambling the Aisle Chapbook Contest
• "Wading," in Prick of the Spindle, vol. 7.2 June 2013.
• "Three Conversations", in Apiary 5, December 2012.
• "Pech Merle: Negative Space,"included in "Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image," exhibit at the Michener Museum of Art, November 3, 2012-March 31, 2013.
• Finalist, Orange Monkey Chapbook Contest, 2012
• "In Her Garden" and "Poets Walk" published in Spring 2012 Schuylkill Valley Journal.
• "Walking Up Buttermilk Falls,"published in Spring 2012 U.S. 1 Worksheets.
• Finalist, Robert Fraser Open Poetry Competition, 2012
• "Stunning Counts," published in July 27, 2011 issue of U.S.1
• "Snowflakes" and "Flower Girl", published in Spring 2011 Schuylkill Valley Journal.
• In the Wawa, published in Fall 2010 Schuylkill Valley Journal, nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• At This Writing
  
• The Presence of Absence
  
• For Columbia