Poems

FEATURED IN MAGAZINES & JOURNALS:

• “Thanks to Baseball,” Highlights, April 2024
• “Cow! Now!,” High Five (forthcoming)
• “Follow the Hedgehog,” High Five, August 2026
• “Mimi and Lulu,” High Five, January 2025
• “Why My Cat Is Green,” High Five, April 2024
• “Dino Breakfast,” High Five, February 2020
• “My Green Balloon,” High Five, March 2017
• “Dandelion Wish,” Hello (forthcoming)
• “Nose and Toes,” Hello, April 2020
• “Dear Time Travelers,” Cricket, January 2023
• “Today Is . . .,” Spider, March 2023
• “If I Were a Train,” Ladybug, April 2022
• “Family Rain Day,” Ladybug, November/December 2020
• “When I Dream,” Ladybug, October 2019
• “If You See a Sunrise,” The Caterpillar, Spring 2021
• “Why,” The Caterpillar, Spring 2019
• “Melon Lemon,” The School Magazine/Countdown, August 2023
• “Monster Treat,” The School Magazine/Countdown, May 2023
• “O Pets!,” The School Magazine/Blast Off, February 2023
• “My Cat Café,” The School Magazine/Countdown, November 2022
• “My Dog, Cerberus,” The School Magazine/Blast Off, September 2022
• “One Small Request,” The School Magazine/Countdown, August 2022
• “CAT-TV,” The School Magazine/Countdown, July 2022
• “Dental Plan,” The School Magazine/Blast Off, June 2021
• “Pasta Surfing,” The School Magazine/Touchdown, July 2020
• “Pretending Together,” The School Magazine/Countdown, June 2020
• “The Classiest Slug,” The School Magazine/Touchdown, June 2020
• “Happily Haunted,” The School Magazine/Countdown, May 2020
• “Monster Crush,” The School Magazine/Orbit, May 2020
• “On National Engineers Week,” Science & Children, January/February 2021
• “Murder in the First Draft,” SCBWI Bulletin, Spring 2018
• “Gray,” Better than Starbucks, May 2022
• “A Long Hike,” Better than Starbucks, November 2021
• “Island Voyage,” Better than Starbucks, September 2020
• “Lone Wolf,” Better than Starbucks, September 2020
• “A Walk in Winter,” The Dirigible Balloon, December 2024
• “My Lucky Leaf,” The Dirigible Balloon, October 2023
• “Tea Genie,” The Dirigible Balloon, November 2021
• “A Big…Misunderstanding?,” Tyger Tyger Magazine, June 2025

FEATURED IN POETRY ANTHOLOGIES:

“Under the Bridge”
I Am a Jigsaw: Puzzling Poems to Baffle Your Brain
Edited by Roger Stevens
Bloomsbury UK

“I’m Magic”
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble: Magical Poems
Chosen by Paul Cookson
Bloomsbury UK

“The Kite Experiment”
Shaping the World: 40 Historical Heroes in Verse
Chosen by Liz Brownlee
Macmillan Children’s Books

“On National Engineers Week”
A World Full of Poems
Edited by Sylvia Vardell
DK Children

“Beep, Beep, Beep!” and “On National Engineers Week”
The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations
Compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
Pomelo Books

“Beep, Beep, Beep!”
Great Morning: Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud
Compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
Pomelo Books

“March!” and “On a Beach”
Hop to It: Poems to Get You Moving
Compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
Pomelo Books

“Lots of Things”
Imperfect: Poems about Mistakes
Edited by Tabatha Yeatts
History House Publishers

“Sleepless”
Imperfect II: Poems about Perspective
Edited by Tabatha Yeatts
History House Publishers

“November,” “Mary Louisa Boit, Age 8,” and “King Kong Song”
The Best of Today’s Little Ditty: 2016
Compiled by Michelle Heidenrich Barnes
Igoo Island Press

“A Beastly Combination” and “Office Horror Story”
The Best of Today’s Little Ditty: 2017-2018
Compiled by Michelle Heidenrich Barnes
Igoo Island Press

“My Lucky Leaf”
Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon
Edited by Jonathan Humble
Yorkshire Times Publishing

“Waiting”
The Periodic Table of Poetry (forthcoming)
Compiled by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
Lerner/Carolrhoda