I am a member of the Greater Cincinnati Writers League, the Ohio Poetry Association, and Fourth Friday International Poetry Group. I participate regularly in open mics at local venues as well as virtually.
My Poems
Ordinary Time, Kelsay Books, 2023. Ordinary Time.
“My Sister’s Hair” in Loch Raven Review, April 2024.
“Outside the Pub” in Pink Panther Magazine, Volume 15, Number 1, 8 March 2024, p. 30
“Our Daily Bread” in For a Better World 2023: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“A Christmas Cactus Celebrates Easter” in Persimmon Tree – Short Takes, Spring 2023.
“Angeles” in Common Threads, November 2022.
“Departure” in The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2022. https://orchardspoetry.com/
“Auf Wiedersehen” in Common Threads, November 2022.
“Shell” in Loch Raven Review, November 2022.
“Charlene’s Shoes” in Loch Raven Review, November 2022.
“Blessings in Disguise” in Loch Raven Review, November 2022.
“Asparagus and Salmon” in Marriage Lifespan Vol. 6, Pure Slush Press, 2022.
“Innocence” in For a Better World 2022: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“Channel Back Chair” in Conversations, Unleash Press, 2022.
“Dear Charlene” in Conversations, Unleash Press, 2022.
“Reflection” in Conversations, Unleash Press, 2022.
“Ten O’Clock Mass – April 1995” in Conversations, Unleash Press, 2022.
“What We Said” in Conversations, Unleash Press, 2022.
NOTE: Link to Conversations Book
“Circles” in Loch Raven Review, Spring 2022. https://thelochravenreview.net/eileen-trauth/
“Making Equations” in Loch Raven Review, Spring 2022. https://thelochravenreview.net/eileen-trauth/
“Unusual Spring” in Sheila-Na-Gig, Spring 2022. https://sheilanagigblog.wordpress.com/volume-6-3-spring-2022/eileen-trauth/
“Doughnut Hole” in Poetry X Hunger https://www.poetryxhunger.com/wfd-2021/poem-by-eileen-trauth and
in For a Better World 2022: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“Kneading” in Common Threads. Ohio Poetry Association, 2021.
“Marginal” in Inside Out: An Affirming Epiphany – Self-Portraits and Statements by 28 Transgender Individuals and
Responsive Poems by 28 Greater Cincinnati Poets. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing, 2021.
Inside Out: An Affirming Epiphany – Self-Portraits and Statements by 28 Transgender Individuals and Responsive
Poems by 28 Greater Cincinnati poets. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing, 2021. https://sosartcincinnati.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/insideout-an-affirming-epiphany.pdf
“Minority” in For a Better World 2021: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“Shelter” in For a Better World 2021: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“Homestead” in Within Us: A Poetry Anthology in Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Greater Cincinnati
Writers League, 2020.
“Mud Flap Blues” in Within Us: A Poetry Anthology in Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Greater Cincinnati
Writers League, 2020.
For a Better World 2021: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice. Cincinnati, OH: Goshen Publishing.
“Making Doughnuts” in The Boston Poet, August 1997.
Readings
Artists Commemorate World Hunger Day, May 28, 2024, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, May 28, 2024
Virtual Book Launch, Saturday Literary Salon, Facebook Live, April 6, 2024 (see Featured Reading on Home Page)
Featured Poet, Gapstow Girls book club, Cincinnati, January 9, 2024
Featured Poet, The Well, Camp Washington, Cincinnati, October 29, 2023
Featured Poet, Poet & Song at the Falcon Theatre (636 Monmouth St., Newport October 19, 2023
Book Launch Party with novelist Suzanne Trauth, Roebling Books & Coffee, Newport, KY, October 5, 2023
Book Launch, Poetry Night at Sitwell’s Coffee House, Clifton, Cincinnati, October 3, 2023
National Poetry Month, Poetry in the Garden, Clifton Branch, Cincinnati Public Library, April 11, 2023
SOS Art Poems for Peace and Justice, Essex Studios, October 7, 2022
Pride Arts Celebration, June 18, 2022 at Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church
Sheila-Na-Gig, Spring Virtual Reading, May 29, 2022
Transgender Recognition Program, Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, March 26, 2022
For A Better World Poetry Reading, Pendleton Art Gallery Annex, Cincinnati, July 24, 2021
InsideOut: An Affirming Epiphany, Price Hill Branch, Cincinnati Public Library, June 12 & 26, 2021