Judith Vaughn
haikusula@gmail.com
Judith lives in Sonoma with Tim, her husband, and Louie, their Catahoula dog. She has been published in several online literary journals and print anthologies, most recently Kinds of Cool, A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Vol.2; Joe Maita, Editor, 2026.
Poetry, like food and drink, sustain her; but her primary emotional sustenance is nature. She walks every day to hear the voices of birds, the sound of lizards running across the path, and trees telling their tales in an easily understood language that she often translates into poems.
Publications:
Vision & Verse II; A Fusion of Art, Photography, Prose and Poetry, California Writers’ Club, September 2025
Kinds of Cool, A Collection of Jazz Poetry; Joe Maita, Editor, 2025
Reverberations 3 – A Visual Conversation; Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2024
Honorable Mention in the Non-rhyming Poetry category of the 92nd Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition, 2023
First Literary Review-East, ’20-’23
JerryJazz Musician, A Miles Davis Poetry Collection, A Collection of Jazz Poetry – Fall/Winter, ’20-’23 editions Sunday’s Poet, ’23; and Spring ’23 edition
Several Redwood Writers Anthologies, 2022-2026
California Writers Club Anthologies ’24-‘26
Larry Robinson’s Poetry Lovers; August ’22 and September ‘23
Calistoga Poetry Walk, ’22
Train River Anthology, 2021
She is also a photographer and publishes her images on 500px.com, an international photo site and on Tumblr: https://judithjudith.tumblr.com/
Click below to read poetry
Always Dreaming
Ars Poetica: Quotidian
No Listening Crows
Strange Fruit / Billie Holiday
*Shelly’s Manne-Hole, 1967 or Thereabouts
Black Walnut
Click above to hear several of Judith Vaughn’s poems read on James Osborne’s show Sonic Discoveries – Jazz and Poetry on KSVY.org
March poem, First Literary Review
May poem, First Literary Review
Sept. 2023 Poem, First Literary Review
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