Selected Works

2023 Samuel Allan Washington Prize Poems:

I grow old … I grow old …

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

—-T. S. Eliot

What Remains

Tin Lizzie

Why I Still Drive by the Abandoned Shell Station Belting Out Bruce Springsteen

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

Visiting My Sister Isolated by COVID

Mudlarking

May 25, 1647. Gov. John Winthrop Recorded the First Execution for Witchcraft in the New World: [            ] of Windsor, Connecticut

No Rehearsal

Visiting The Gardens at DePugh Nursing Center, Winter Park, Florida

Poetry Workshop

Blueprints

Holly Stevens, 67; Edited Father’s Work

Martha Stewart’s Ten Commandments for Snow

Nature, red in tooth and claw

The First Poem I Have Labeled: Love Poem

February 1, 2004: Mae Keane, 97, Speaks to Men

Proud Flesh: Mary Waits for Shelley

To contact Vivian, email her at shipleyv1@southernct.edu