My poems can make a difference!

I am an American-Irish poet who has published widely in Irish, UK and US publications, most recently in The Honest Ulsterman, Crannóg, One Hand Clapping, Skylight 47, The Night Heron Barks and Spillway. My manuscript “Corona Connemara and Half a Crown” was selected as 2nd place winner in the 2021 Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition and will be published in May 2022. The core of those poems grew out of my January 2021 30/30 experience!

My poems are included in several anthologies, including Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds, Mischief, Caprice and other Poetic Strategies, and Grand Passion: Poets from Los Angeles and Beyond. My chapbooks include Sweet to the Grit (The Inevitable Press, 1998) and The Landscape from Behind, with Jim Natal, (VC Press, 1997.) Jamie’s entries to 2021 Cuìrt New Writing Prize and Listowel Writers Week Poetry Collection Competition were shortlisted. I am the recipient of a 2021 Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, the 2021 Artist in Residence at Brigit’s Garden in County Galway, and a participant in the 2021 Words Ireland Mentoring Programme. My poetry reviews can be found in The Laurel Review, LitPub, and The Tupelo Review. I live in Connemara.

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