I’m so excited to have my artwork featured on the cover of Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine.

https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/issue-18

The Headlight Review is excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize. Out of over seventy total submissions, twenty submissions were selected for the longlist. Of those twenty submissions, the following nine titles were selected:

It was an honor to participate in the MER reading on May 4th for Volume 23 of this amazing journal on motherhood and women’s lives. There are many rich offerings in the issue, and I recommend it highly.  

2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize Longlist

The Headlight Review announced the longlist for its annual Poetry Chapbook Prize. Out of over seventy submissions, the following submissions were selected to move forward in the review process:

MER 23 Launch Event Sunday, May 4th, at 5:30 pm ET.

You are invited to a reading to celebrate the launch of MER 23! The reading is online, free and open to the public but preregistration is required at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/sIzw1sfOT4-sRPXPZ--L0w

I am so very grateful and pleased that Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” It is a poem that is dear to me, as I fell in love with the elephants when my husband and I and two very close friends walked (with guides) through the Serengeti fifteen years ago for six days, sleeping in small tents along the way.

You can read the poem here:

https://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-27-1/in-the-grasslands/

So grateful to be among the LitFox Award finalists for 2025. Congratulations to Len Lawson, the winner! Len’s poetry collection New Names for Stars was selected by Mary Biddinger as the winner of the Lit Fox Award. New Names for Stars will be published March 1st, 2026.

MER 23 will launch on April 15th!

Very gratified that my poem “As If It Were My Name,” about what my grandchildren call me, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.

My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University.

Read the full poem here on page 34 of the current issue.

Beyond delighted & grateful, “In the Morning in the City” https://passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morning-in-the-city-by-elizabeth-j-coleman/ appears in the prizewinning and commended poems of the Love and Loss competition, selected by Sheila E. Murphy, published in a special issue of @passionfruitlit  I loved the other poems chosen.

I’m very grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” in their Spring 2025 poetry series.

2025 Trail to Table Book Awards

"Content is often unsettling or painful in poems, but form is play, a residue of the fun the poet had while working.  Of course, like form and content, pain and fun want to be each other.” That tension is at the heart of the matter of poetry, I think. I mention this quote in the Pinhole Poetry interview.

My copy of elementals has arrived, and I am experience the difference between reading about a gorgeous book with brilliant creators online, and holding it in my hand. I have begun my journey through this astonishing land of great, passionate, elemental writing, and already planning all the people I want to give it to, all over our beautiful blue planet. Thank you this bible of the elements, and thank you  for letting me be part of it.