Writing
Published Poems
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Voices Without Borders II
(forthcoming)
I am proud to announce my forthcoming poetry chapbook Time of Sand and Teeth from Finishing Line Press, to be released February 27, 2009.
Many friends and colleagues ask me about the title, which comes from the title of my perhaps most successful poem. I grew up on the Baltic Sea, close to the beach. We didn’t have as much stuff or food as we have today. You got one sandwich in the morning to take along to the beach. If you dropped it in the sand, which I invariably did, you had a choice: either eat it, sand and all, or go hungry. So, of course, i ate it.
About a month after September 11, I was driving home and all of a sudden I remembered that gritty feeling of sand between the teeth. I went home and wrote a poem about it.
This was the start of my writing poetry in English.
“Editor’s Special Recognition”
Finalist in Glimmer Train’s Poetry Open
First Poetry Prize in English, Gival Press Tri-Language Poem Contest 2001
