Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: my teaching!

Two weeks after teaching poetry at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece, I taught my 13th year at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing: prose poetry & flash fiction, the lyric essay, and literary publishing…plus a writers life panel and my poetry reading. I’m a very fulfilled poet and teacher this summer! On top of that I have one more writing conference to teach at: the awesome Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks!

The Thing with Feathers panel at the Unbound Book Festival 2025!

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!

Bitter Beans panel at the Unbound Book Festival 2025!

Unbound Book Festival! I want to hold you in my heart! What a wonderful time I had presenting on the Bitter Beans panel about coffee, including reading my poem “Coffee Suite” commissioned for the panel!

Moderator: Jessica Vaughn Martin

Panelists: Mark Pendergrast, Heather Webber, and me!