I’m reading Saturday May 10 at 7 pm EDT for this benefit for Ukraine. It’s in person here in Syracuse AND available to stream on Zoom (register via the QR code or the link below). Readings from me and Jessica Cuello, Virgie Townsend, Misha Tentser, Tim McCoy, Sara Parrott, Mary Jumbelic, Deb Diemont, Stephen Kuusisto, and Georgia Popoff. Music and singing from a local Ukrainian choir.
Last week the collaborative poetry chapbook “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro, had its release reading at the University of Toledo, hosted by Timothy Geiger and his Aureole Press, who created this letterpress printed work of art. I couldn’t be there in body but I was there in spirit. I’m excited to share this chapbook when it becomes available for purchase!
The best part of the already amazing Unbound Book Festival? Seeing old friends and making new ones! I didn’t take many photos but here’s John Gallaher and Jenny Molberg in the hotel lobby special chair…and me, Amina Gautier and Gary Jackson sharing our homeward travels, talking writing, teaching, comic books, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and more!
Unbound Book Festival! You were amazing! What a great time I had presenting on my second panel, The Thing with Feathers…about boids! *flap-flap warble-warble* Hosted at the Serendipity Salon. Then doing a book signing at Skylark Bookshop .
Pictured: panelist Lindsey Drager, panelist Noppadol Paothong, moderator Dana Ripper, and panelist me!
I’m delighted to be a part of the 10th anniversary Unbound Book Festival April 17-20, 2025 in Columbia, Missouri! I’ll be presenting on 2 panels, one on birds and one on coffee. I’m writing a coffee poem specially for the festival. So many awesome authors will be presenting, make your plans now to come on and join us!
https://www.unboundbookfestival.com/