Day 4 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing September Edition! I met with awesome writers all day for manuscript consultations, then ate seafood at Menemsha Beach with fellow faculty and we clapped when the sun set. *sarcasm* It’s a sort of life, I guess.
Day 3 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I taught two craft/generative classes: one on broken things & anaphora and one on the hermit crab essay. Then in the evening we enjoyed wonderful readings by fellow faculty Hannah Bae and Vogue Robinson! Then Indian food at Indigo!
Day 2 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing… No teaching for me today, but I read my poetry alongside the wonderful fiction writer Joy Deva Baglio! Thanks so much to all the awesome supportive people in the audience tonight! Golly that was a warm and welcoming time tonight!
With a glass of elderflower wine and a skol, Director Alexander Weinstein opens the third week of the 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! My 14th year teaching here. My second week of this year’s three sessions. Yip-a-dang! Here’s to a great week of writing on the Vineyard!
What a thrill to receive my contributor copy of the new Post Road, containing my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free” and much more literary goodness! HUGE thanks to the wonderful editors of PR!
So sweet and wonderful to read my poetry last week alongside so many lovely people for the Seneca Review, at Two Goats Brewing on the shore of Seneca Lake!
What a warm and delightful experience reading my poetry on Friday alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn for St. David’s Rhythm & Rhyme in Fayetteville, NY. Thank you to Laura Hannett for inviting me and thank you to all the kind folks who came!
Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Writing and relaxing on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, waving hi to the wonderful Operations Manager Greta Hovland & our wonderful Director Virginia Zech as they rise from the water, then enjoying the wonderful Brian Hall reading us his fiction!
Day 5 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! Writing and relaxing in an awesome treehouse overlooking Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, followed by the party at Blum House under a pale June moon…
