Poetry
Poem: “Wake Up to the Wild Within” August 21, 2026
Published within Four Corners Voices Vol. 2 https://www.fourcornerswriters.com
Read for Pause for Poetry: A Community Radio Project on KSJD in Cortez, Colorado.
Editors: Chuck Greaves, and KSJD Radio Director Tom Yoder.
Poems: “The Fishing” and “A Brief History of a River” August 1, 2026
Camp Hiawatha: A Literary Journal ~ Words for the Wild – Print Journal Contest https://vilasavenue.com/camphiawatha/
Poem: “Taoseño Hummingbird” (Representing June 4, pg 156) August 2026
Casa Urraca Press. Abiquiu, NM. https://casaurracapress.com/anthology
A themed anthology representing each day of the year.
https://casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/year-of-new-mexico-poetry-anthology
Sestinas: “Silence is a Prayerful Sound” & “Legend has it” July 26, 2026
Bilingual Poem: “Un mensaje de la diosa / A Message from Mother Earth”
Gathered in the anthology Doves Born of Flames by Editor and Monterey California Poet Laureate Marie Boucher.
Poem: “This Cradle Rests Empty” July 8, 2026
The Meadow: Literary and Arts Journal https://www.tmcc.edu/meadow
Editor and Poetry Lead-Editor: Lindsay Wilson
https://sites.tmcc.edu/flipbook/meadow/2026
Poem: “El Nogal Trail” June 26, 2026
Water Tower Press – The Avenue Journal. Baltimore, MD. Issue X: DOGS.
https://theavenuejournal.squarespace.com
Poem: El ‘Burque’ May 31, 2026
Prolific Pulse Press: https://www.prolificpulse.com
“Unhoused: Yearning For Home” - Being Seen Anthology 2025
Poem: "In Her Drowning" May 28, 2026
Milkweed Poetry Journal. Eds Madison Hoff and Wendy Insinger.
ISBN: 979-8253546864
https://www.amazon.com/Milkweed-Poetry-Journal-Madison-Hoff/dp/B0GXF3KZSS/ref=sr_1_1
Poem: “October Wind: A Broken Sonnet” May 10, 2026
Four Tulips: https://www.fourtulips.com
Out at Sea Anthology - Honorable Mention for the "Out at Sea" Contest
https://www.fourtulips.com/archives/october-wind-a-broken-sonnet
Poem: “Eyes Wide Open” April 10, 2026
Screaming At America: An Anthology of Revolution. Editors: Joshua Robinson, Olivia Pearman, and Aspen Everett. Boulder, 2026.
Poems: “El Nogal Trail at Sunrise” & “At Day’s Break: Sapphic Stanzas” December 1 , 2025
Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes. Sixth Edition.
Editors David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman. Dos Gatos Press, 2025.
Poem: If we are lucky: A Firefly Sestina November 24, 2025
Silver Birch Press: “Bugs & Insects” www.silverbirchpress.com
Poem: Arachnid Haikus Fall 2025
Wingless Dreamer: Autumn Anthology “Pumpkin, Spice & Paper Cuts: Poetry”
Poem: Wake Up to the Wild Within November 13 , 2025
Four Corners Anthology 2025 https://www.fourcornerswriters.com
Poetry Editor: Sarah Carr, Fiction Editor: Chuck Greaves, Nonfiction Editor: Gail Binkly
The Four Corners first anthology won the Anthology Category in the Colorado Book Award of the Humanities. Like the first, the second includes Poetry, Short Story, and Nonfiction written by folks living within and expressing their love for Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Poems: “The News of the Day” and “Latitudes & Longitudes: An Outtakes Poem”
Morrow Point Magazine: “Hope and Uncertainty” October 12, 2025
Editors Tali Himmel Rothstein and Isabel Grey https://morrowpoint.org/poetry/
https://morrowpoint.org/2025/10/12/latitudes-longitudes/
Poems: “Dent de Lion” and “Mother Mullein, She Grows” September 19, 2025
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary Performance, and Visual Arts in New Mexico and the Greater Southwest. UNM Digital Repository: Vol. 4, 2025.
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu
Poem: “Crow’s Nest and Raven’s Rest: A Golden Shovel” September 14, 2025
Bainbridge Island Press Poetics Anthology: CORVIDS: https://bainbridgeisland.press
Poem: “Life Below Sea Level” July 31, 2025
Colossus: “Current: The Ways and Workings of Water.” Editors Sara Biel & Elisa Salasin. Guest Editor Kim Shuck Former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, CA. (pg. 104).
Theme: water scarcity, sea level, and all issues H20. www.colossupress.org
Poems: “Toward New Country,” “Channeling Acequia Madre,”
& “Sialia Mexicana – Mountain Bluebird” July 15, 2025
https://deepwildjournal.com/2025/07/15/walk-these-rivered-hills
Awarded Honorable Mention in Deep Wild Journal’s 2025 Student Contest:
“Waking to the Wild”. Judges Chelsea Catherine & John Nizalowski. Director Rick Kempa
https://deepwildjournal.com/2025/04/23/our-2025-student-writing-contest-winners/
Poems: “With Eyes Wide Open” (27), “Metaphor-ay” (179), “Duende” (220) June 26, 2025
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Canyon Voices Literary Magazine. New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Glendale: Arizona State University. Issue 31.
https://issuu.com/asunewcollege/docs/canyon_voices_issue_31
Poem: “Moth Clutched Loosely” May 31, 2025
“Superstition/Divination.” Tiny Spoon: An experimental Literary Magazine. Issue 13. Boulder: Colorado, 2025. (Pp 90) www.TinySpoon.org
“Moth Clutched Loosely” can be heard on: https://www.radarpoetry.com/the-waiting
After Maya Jewel Zeller's Poem "The Waiting."
Poem: “Manitou Passage” April 20, 2025
Tiny Seed Literary Journal: You Plant the Seed, We Help it Grow Project:
“The Beauty of Water’s Depth”
Bilingual Poem: “Bodega on Bagley” March 26, 2025
One of Twenty Finalists for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize Judged by dg nanouk okpik December 30, 2023. Published in “Taking Liberties”. Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts. Issue #29. Tucson, 2025. Pp. 154-157. www.cutthroatmag.com
Poem: “Hen & Buck” March 15, 2025
Mountain Blue Bird Magazine and Press Issue #7. Editor Jenny Forrester
https://jennyforrester.com/mountain-bluebird-magazine-press/.
“I’ve Come into Plains Country” and “finestra: A Golden Shovel Sestina”
Word Peace Journal: Climate Change Issue 10.1 Winter/Spring February 2, 2025
“We Tamarix” and “Life Below Sea Level” January 29, 2025
“We Do Not Need Permission to Rise: A Poetry and Art Anthology”. San Diego: Beyond the Veil Press, 2025. (Pp 95 & 96). https://beyondtheveilpress.com
A publisher who supports the LGBTQ+, Pride, and Allies community.
“America Could Be Crowned,” “Because We Remember,”& “Today We Are Stargazers”
In celebration of MLK Jr Remembrance Day, January 16, 2025
and in protest of the Inauguration of the 47th President.
These three poems will be front paged through The Philly Poetry Chapbook Review:
Editor Aiden Hunt. https://phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-by-shelli-rottschafer/
“An Ode to My Dog Upon This Mid-Winter Storm” December 21, 2024
Page 16-17. Winter Edition. https://peninsulaartsmag.com
“Coyote Returns” and Featured Author December 10, 2024
Mountain Outlaw Magazine: Big Sky, Montana Winter Issue
“Dent de Lion” and “Honey, shall we?” July 27, 2024
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. A companion to the First national nature Assessment (NNA1).
Co-Editors: Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler.
https://natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/dent-de-lion/
https://natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/honey-shall-we-an-untraditional-sonnet/