“voyage” Finalist, in the Poetry for Thriving Contest, a collection curated in part by Rosemary Wahtola-Trommer with Eremos Contemplative Center, October 2025.

“some nameless god” in TPA Quarterly, Dec. 2025, Laurence Musgrove, Ed.

“oh! what a merry dance there lives” in Texas Poetry Assignment, Sept. 2024 Laurence Musgrove, Ed.

“family reunion” in Texas Poetry Assignment, July 2024, Laurence, Musgrove, Ed.

“confession” in Texas Poetry Assignment, June 2024, Laurence Musgrove, Ed.

“multiples of seven” in Texas Poetry Assignment, May 2024, Laurence Musgrove, Ed.

“in the beginning” in Voices de la Luna, November 2022, Adair, James, Ed., Quintanilla, Octavio, Poetry Ed., pg. 15.

“rachmaninoff off key” in Amethyst Review, Feb. 22, 2019, Sarah Law, Ed.

“deluge” in Amethyst Review, Jan. 28, 2019, Sarah Law, Ed.

naomi, only the ocotillo, and on a farm in brownsville in Poets and Dreamers: Dreamers and Displaced Issue, 2018, Anne Tammel, Ed.

“and the red oak spoke,” “this well,” “dawn,” “through this cumulous,” & “. (          ) –wind” in Sixfold Poetry Summer 2013, Contributor Edited.

five poems, “i wake the night” in Sixfold Poetry Fall 2013, Contributor Edited.

“outside the cyclone fence” with artist’s eco-poetics statement in Poets for Living Waters. 

if all of us: individuals, priests, ministers, rabbis, gurus, healers, poets, and people of all faiths would turn our thinking away from rage and distress over the apparent problem in the ocean and literally, prayerfully send the energy of loving-kindness to the water, holding her in our thought in Light and claiming her wholeness by the power of All that is Holy, we could, on this physical plane, by the focus of our thought, change the chemical make-up of each crystal of water and help the ocean clean itself up.  Even better, if we gathered at her shores from all around the world en masse in this effort, we would make an even bigger impact toward her healing.

d. ellis phelps, 2010

“this poem is plenty” online with the San Antonio peaceCenter

“on the lawn” in Texas Poetry Calendar, 2011

“this mirror a monk teaching the dharma” in Metaphysical Expressions #3, p.65