Published Poems

“I Created my Life” & “A Child’s Blue Plaid Shirt.” Spirit Lake Review, 2026. https://www.spiritlakereview.com/_files/ugd/906728_d179620700154285b9739ed03252896a.pdf

“Monument.” A Year in Ink, 2026.

“Theater of Suburban Garages in my Evening Walks.” San Diego Poetry Annual, 2025-2026.

“Beauty and the Interloper.” The Santa Clara Review, 2026. santaclarareview.com

 Flames Are No Help.” The Broken Spine, 2025. https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/selected-poetry-spring-2025-digital/  

“To the Woman Who Feeds the Cottontail Rabbits.” The Hopper, 2024. https://www.hoppermag.org/issue-9-2

https://mailchi.mp/f5086d1aae5b/best-of-17994920?e=188f356d76  

“A Design that Could be Eventual.” Crosswinds Poetry Journal, 2024. https://crosswindspoetry.com/,

“Standing Beside El Crater Elegante at Night—” & “Outside I’m Okay, Inside I’m Not” & “Ode to a Desert Tortoise” & “Picasso Painting on a Barcelona Museum Cup” & “Silence is Not an Absence” & “Settling for Less with Love” & “The Olive Tree” & “Of Death and Memory” & “Rescue, Not Capture” & “No Longer Lost in the Laguna Salada” & “The Dragon of Borrego Springs, California” & “Postcard to Jonathan.”  Cholla Needles, 2023. https://www.chollaneedles.com/2023/09/new-issue-cholla-needles-81.html,

“And His Kingdom Will Have No End.” San Diego Poetry Annual: Greetings from Tent City. Poems from The City and Beyond, 2023-24.

“Haven in a Giant Sunflower.” A Year in Ink— San Diego Writers, Ink Anthology, 2023.

“A Prayer for Jaklín Amei Rosemery Caal Maquín (2011-2018).” Under a Warm Green Linden, Green Linden Press, 2023. https://www.greenlindenpress.com/issue15-donna-castaneda,

“Paolo Freire said let love, the heart of revolution, into the room.” Litmora, 2023. https://www.litmoralitmag.com/donna-castaneda-untitled

“Giant Asteroid, or What Would I Do Today if the World Ended Tomorrow?” San Antonio Review, 2022.  https://www.sareview.org/pub/zyrl8gb9,

“Puzzles.” Journal of Undiscovered Poets, 2021. https://issuu.com/jlederman/docs/j2_final?fr=sM2EyZDI5ODMyNzU

“Grace at the Factory” & “La Poeta.”  Metamorfosis: The Journal of Northwest Chicano Art and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, 1978, pp. 15, https://www.historylink.org/File/8294,

National High School Poetry Press, 1974, poem published in “Young America Sings”

“Place, Identity, and Resistance in the River Poetry of Emmy Perez and Natalie Diaz.” Midwest Quarterly, 2025.  digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/mwq/

Project Director, Youth Poetry Workshops in Imperial County-2024-25 Editor, Project Chapbook: Dancing Feelings: Poetry by Imperial Valley Youth Funded by California Humanities Quick Grant