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SWWIM
"a day in my life with Pablo Neruda"

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OPRELLE 2023 MASTERS POETRY CONTEST (4th Place)
"Paying My Respects"


SWEETLIT
"Show Me, Earth, Your Day"
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RAVENS PERCH
 "No More #2 Pencils"
​"Hard Love"
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HUMANS OF THE WORLD
"13 Things Children Need"
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MACQUEEN'S QUINTERLY
"Fly Girls"
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RED OGRE REVIEW
"Pink"
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IN PARENTHESES
What We Told Shakespeare About Tupac"
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ARIEL CHART
"Men I Met After Him Were Never Good With Garlic"


AUTUMN SKY POETRY
"OBIT [Teaching]"


THE PINE CONE REVIEW
"Love Letters to Potential Poems"
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PORCUPINE LITERARY
​"To My Student Who Cried for the Creature in Frankenstein"
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FOR WOMEN WHO ROAR
“Her Body a Temple” 
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DRUNK MONKEYS
"Play>"
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WEST TRESTLE REVIEW
​"Swingline"
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HARRISBURG MAGAZINE
"Paying My Respects"
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TWEETSPEAK
"The Wilde Truth"
“When Poems Become Magic Cloaks”

“I’m with Aristotle”
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HIVE
"Advice for Hungry Actors"


IRIS G PRESS
"Summer-gone"
"Blow the Speaker"
"Maria Abassi's Final Exam"
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SILVER NEEDLE PRESS
"Mixtape Venus"

THE SUNDRESS BLOG (Wardrobe's Best Dressed)
Mixtape Venus
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HALF AND ONE
"My Student Daica Asks, What Are You Thinking"

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VIEWLESS WINGS (print and podcast)
"Pray for my Daughter"
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"Pillow Talk"
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UNLEASH LIT
"A Friend's Reflection After Bad Tinder Date #38"


WILD ROOF JOURNAL
"Fall Out"
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STAR 82 REVIEW
"Portrait of My Teacher as an Otter"
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STREETCAKE
"Instructions for Living Like Tofu"
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PROMETHEUS DREAMING
"Poe Was Most Afraid of Being Buried Alive"
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COMPASS ROSE
Still Life As Cinderella

BETTER THAN STARBUCKS
"Stage Door Serenade"
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FIXATOR PRESS
"​Days My Poems Go Far Away"
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ONE ART
​“Ten Truths to Outlast the Sun”
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"Why I Couldn't Give You Away"

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PROSE ONLINE
​"Training"
"Icarus' Mother Unplugged: What You Do For Your Son When His Father Remarries
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WRITERS RESIST
​“The Gospel According to Saint Bryan”
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ON THE SEAWALL
​"Smokescreen"
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SLEDGEHAMMER LIT
​"Des(s)erted"
"Meeting Death in a Dive Bar, in Three Acts"
"My  Goldfish Wears a Rolex"


SPILLWORDS PRESS
"Do As I Say"
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THE BROADKILL REVIEW
"WaterRise"
​"An Offering to Maya"
​"The Child Left Behind"
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THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM
​"Self-Portrait as a Tourniquet"
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YELLOW CHAIR REVIEW
"Finding My Raspberry Beret"

​(featured in the Prince Tribute Anthology)
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Screen and Stage Plays

Dana's short film, WaterRise, was produced by Sagesse Productions, filmed in Manhattan, and premiered at Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg, PA. The premiere was followed by a reception and a Q&A session with Dana (screenwriter), Mary Sarah Agliotta (director), and the film's leading actresses, Jillian Kinsey and Inga Leps.  
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Dana and her daughter, Jillian, at the film premiere.
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A cosmopolitan artist conjures her best friend who has recently died during a Manhattan rooftop party while the man who captivates both of them sleeps in the same room. This mystical tale takes a closer look at the envy and competition that can sometimes drive a friendship to the lowest depths and the enduring love that can suspend it forever. When two creative, successful women reveal their darkest secrets, they can only be left with light. 
Dana also crafted the story into a one-act play and it premiered at the historic Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City in June 2015 in conjunction with the Radioactive Festival for female playwrights. ​

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"I am a merry wanderer steeped in night--it seems the stars do agitate the fight."
Dana penned narration for a show called Fight 'til the Last Gasp: Cry Havoc as part of Harrisburg Shakespeare Company's 2014 Stage Door Series.  Working with fight choreographer, Dan Burke, she wrote as Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream in iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's choice of verse. 

In the show, Puck becomes the moral center of the piece as the combatants engage in scene after scene of fighting, a result of hostility caused by pride, greed, impetuousness and other vicious behavior. 


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Articles in Harrisburg Magazine

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Midtown Cinema
holding out for a hero
Making love look easy
South Philly hoagies