'Mystery Readers Journal.
(Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 2003.) 'Transcending the Southern Connection'

In Her Words...

A Rustling Breeze and the Whole Sky is Singing with Pine Needle Voices: The Teaching and Writing of Poetry
1982 Bowling Green State University Press.

"The poet [writer] loves words; she is a receptive and sensitive repository of language, someone who uses words to create new and unique language. She hears more sounds than others; she somehow sees, smells, and feels beyond the concrete."

The Poet
Fine Arts Society. ISBN 0-932192-00-9
"To Bee," "Evening Together," "Crystal Tree," "Perfect Child," "Early Spring Morning," "Crickets," "Surrealism," "The Cup."

The Cup

Tall gray salt glaze cup with blue leaves
Williamsburg pottery
Speckles of pepper in muted stone
The old man made it appropriate
The handle that curves
Like our ear
At the kitchen table
We offer the world over a cup of coffee
And listen
To grime and pleasure.

English Journal
(Vol. 70, Nov. 1981). "English, Art and Haiku"

"Although concise, Haiku presents insight into the nature of life---the reality and unity of spirit. The perfect Haiku is to isolate a moment in time, to evoke a feeling by suggesting the overtones of the words."