8th Annual Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference!!

  This will be my first time attending & presenting at the 8th Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference The theme of the conference is: Nourishing Ourselves & Our Communities My workshop: Giving Our Health Word Power This workshop will provide a clearing space to crystallize what is necessary for your health, …

Performance Rescheduled: #Snowpocalypse!!

                  A Certain Kind of Brilliance has been reschdueled due to the #SeattleSnowpocalypse! The new date for my performance is March 1st! Same time, 7 pm, same place, Gay City. **If you’ve already purchased a ticket, please call Brown Paper Tickets at …

February Performance: A Certain Type of Brilliance!

                  On February 10th I will perform again at Gay City: A Certain Type of Brilliance. “Femmes possess an alchemy that can’t be quantified, but which draws us together and enables us to be bold, ingenious, and capable of a magic that fortifies our …

Writing Summary 2016

2016 was a busy year. After a long hiatus from the business side of writing, it was time to submit my writing again. After several invitations to submit a full size manuscript, to the press that published my chapbook in 2007, I  pulled together my HIV/AIDS poetry, including new poems I wrote in 2015 inspired …

Bold Truth is Necessary in a Post-Truth World

          In December scientists gathered at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco to protest President-elect Trump’s selection of climate-change deniers to major government positions. The incoming administration will destroy their work, be detrimental to the health of our planet, and cut funding. Peter Frumhoff from the Union of …

Green Witch with AIDS Accepted for the HIV Here & Now Anthology!

              My poem, Green Witch with AIDS was selected for the HIV Here & Now Anthology by editor Michael J. Broder (due out in 2017). Prior to that it was published first at The Unprecendented Review, then on the HIV Here & Now Poem-a-Day project. In fact, …