Poems + Creative Nonfiction
I’m a Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the Community of Writers, and I just bought a typewriter.
A Poet, Wayfinding
Journal of Museum Education
This lyric essay responds to an inquiry of how being a poet influences my work as an interpretive writer for museums and cultural institutions.
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Chapbooks
Ground
a letterpress collection of poems about the Earth
$40
2007, Shakespeare Press Museum
A multi-year series of collaborations with the artisans at Shakespeare Press Museum in San Luis Obispo, California yielded limited-edition, hand-bound, letterpress collections of my original poems. Guided by professor emeritus and master printer Tom Goglio, the Cal Poly students used a combination of current technology and 19th and early 20th century presses to print the works.
the place within where the universe resides
a hand-stitched, letterpress collection of poems
$22
1993, Shakespeare Press Museum
Poetry Readings
Instagram Live Reading — Tidy Type Cranbrook Print Media Takeover
Language of the Soul — Feature poet, San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival (San Luis Obispo, California)
Goodyear Arts with Jeff Jackson (Charlotte, North Carolina);
(re) Surveying the Source: Entanglements of Water, History, and Form— (Centennial Valley, Montana)
William Carroll Writers Festival, Norfolk State University, (Norfolk, Virginia)
Studio Kipp, Mapping Meaning, Rhinebeck, NY June 2023
Call Your Mother
Writing this blog supported me through my kids’ coming of age