Slow Now with Clear Skies
January 19, 2024
“Slow Now with Clear Skies” Readings!
July 6, 2024
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June Readings & Book Launch!!
6/3/24, Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series, reading with Anastacia-Renee, Erin Malone, Kevin Craft, Jeanine Walker, and Wendy Call.
6/9/24, Book Launch, Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, at Pike Place Market, 4 pm. Please register, event is free, but a donation to the libary is accepted.
6/29/24, Village Books, Bellingham, 4 pm; reading with Arlene Naganawa & Susan Landgraf. Please register, for a nominal registration fee you get a coupon for $5 off any book you purchase.
Additional Readings: more information to follow!
7/11/24, It’s About Time, Ballard Library, 6 pm, with open mike
7/15/24, Everett Poetry Night at Sister’s Restaurant, 6 pm, with open mike
9/4/24, La Pasadita Cafe, Duvall, 7 pm, with open mike
9/7/24, BookTree, Kirkland, 4:30 Workshop, 6:15 Reading, with open mike
9/11/24, Poetry Bridge, West Seattle, 6 pm, with open mike
11/13/24, Ghost Town Poetry, Vancouver, 6 pm? with open mike
11/22/24, RASP, Redmond, 6 pm?, with open mike
Jack Straw Grand Finale!
My Jack Straw Interview with Priscilla Long was published!
My year as a Jack Straw Writing Fellow ended with a song! Each of us was paired with a musician from the Bushwick Book Club; I was paired with the guitar playing singer and vergioning comedian Chiku Nance! And below that my interview with curator Priscilla Long.
Poetry Publication News!
- Songs of the Revolution: Poems Against Oppression published my ekphastic poem, Futility, and a second poem, A Call for the Lost.
- The Power of the Feminine I: Poems from the Feminine Perspective, Volume 2, published my poem Bad Girls.
- Nerve Cowboy Selected Works: 2004-2012, published two poems in previous journals: Only What I Can Do (a poem selected from my first chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues, and read by Garrison Keilor on National Public Radio, and the poem Happy in Hawaii. Both these poems are in my full-size poetry book truth be bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS. Thank you to the editors of this fabulous journal that has come to it’s close. I’m honored to have been included.
- Anti-Heroin Chic published two poems: After Mother’s Death and Lost Wanna Die Moments. (12/17/24)
- Silver Birch Press published my poem, Frame Soup Cooks Best on Slow, in their Spices theme issue. (2/4/24)
- Wellspring Literary Journal published my poem, The Moment of Diagnosis, in their first issue. (3/18/24)
