Vermont Studio Center

July 7 – Aug. 2 I will be at the Vermont Studio Center on a work-study and an artist grant. I’m bringing my violin (I haven’t travelled with it in a while). I was told I can play in a garden area, so I won’t disturb anyone who is working. I admit that I am […]

“Cleaning Out the Lyre” on Poetry Daily

Many thanks to Don Selby & Diane Boller for featuring my sonnet, “Cleaning Out the Lyre,” on Poetry Daily today.

The Kind Interwebs

Today, my poem “Performance” was featured on Verse Daily. It was a happy surprise! Thank you, Mysterious People In Charge of These Things.

Poetry Foundation Record-a-Poem: Poems for Boston

In the wake of the Boston tragedy, the Poetry Foundation invited poets to upload recordings of poems for Boston on Record-a-Poem. I decided to record Stanley Plumly’s poem, “Grievers” (from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me).

WBEZ 91.5 Chicago / Poets on the Radio

The “Public Private” reading, curated by Nina Corwin for Woman Made Gallery on 2/3/13, is featured on Chicago Amplified for WBEZ 91.5. You can check it out here. I read with Shevaun Brannigan, CM Burroughs, Sandra Marchetti, Carrie McGath, and Naomi Palagi. Thank you, Kurt Heintz, for recording the reading. You can find samples of some of the poems we read […]

Women Write Resistance Anthology

Women Write Resistance “Tongue,” the title poem of Tongue Lyre, is in the Women Write Resistance anthology (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013, edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman. These poems are fierce. I’m honored to be included in this project. Review: “Exhilarating and groundbreaking…” -Les Femmes Folles ~ Other poets included are Alicia Ostriker, Maureen Seaton, Judy Grahn, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Ellen […]

KBAC: Print Studio Reading & a Reading Review

Reading for the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Poets in Print Series on 3/2 was a lot of fun. It was wonderful to read with Brynn Saito (The Palace of Contemplating Departure). We met Kalamazoo poets and artists after the reading. And Allison Walker made a beautiful broadside of my poem, “Cleaning Out the Lyre” (below). […]

Writing Life, Influences, and the Desert Island Question

Thanks, Molly Weeks Crumbley, for interviewing me for “Hey, Boo Books.” The interview is here.