I’ll be Zoom reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, on April 23 via The Downtown Writers Center of Syracuse, New York. Come help me celebrate the release of my book! I’ll be reading along with the awesome poet Shira Dentz! Yay! The reading is free, but you gotta register ahead of time to get the Zoom link. Info HERE.
I’m reading poetry tomorrow night with the wonderful Samantha Ocena (followed by a conversation with the marvelous John Howard) as the closing festivities of this week’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, hosted by the Oak Bluffs Public Library. The reading starts at 7 pm Eastern Time. The zoom link is below. Swing on by and join us already!
https://oakbluffs.zoom.us/j/92674393814?pwd=NUx1NWZHeWpaK0wvemJYc1NQSGF6dz09
This is happening online next week! All free! 🙂 Workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Readings in the evenings! I’m teaching a generative workshop on Hermit Crab Lyric Essays on Wednesday morning, July 1, and I’m giving a reading on Friday July 3 at 7 pm. It’s all free and organized through the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard. Tune in and join us!
It was awesome to be asked to read my creative nonfiction for yesterday’s episode of The Campbell Conversations on WRVO, celebrating the work of writers associated with The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse. Sitting at home in a bedroom closet last week — with my phone balanced on my knee — I read the first 6 minutes of my lyric essay, “Go Away and Stay Right Here,” originally published in the Colorado Review. My reading leads off the episode which also features luminous performances by Jessica Cuello, Georgia Popoff, and Arthur Flowers.
Give a listen HERE!
As part of their virtual book launch today, the editors of the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology asked me to make a short video of myself reading my included story. The file’s too large for me to post here directly, but the link below will take you there!
Watch my reading HERE.
Grab a copy of the anthology HERE!
Thank you so much to all the great folks who came out to my class on the hermit crab essay and my poetry reading yesterday at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! It was such a treat! Thank you to Carolina and Marco for hosting me at the library. Thank you to Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing for bringing me to the island as part of the year-long visiting writers series!
I’m delighted to announce that I’m returning to Martha’s Vineyard at the end of this month! I’ll be teaching a 2-hour writing class on the Hermit Crab Essay and then giving a poetry reading at the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Feb 29. It’s all completely free and open to the public. Dag! This event is part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing’s Year-Round Writers Series. I did it last year, too, and we had a great time. If you’re in the area, please come on by!
More info HERE.
I’m going to Philadelphia in April to read poems from my forthcoming book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press). I’m reading Friday April 17, 2020 at 6:30 as part of the Popular Culture Association 2020 National Conference. Swing on by if you’re in the area. Plus the conference is just crazy packed with great stuff, including featured speakers Terry Gross and Kevin Willmott!
Thank you to everyone who came to our LiterarY Dinner yesterday in support of the Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA. We’re overjoyed by the amount we raised! Thank you to our readers, Jessica Cuello and David Lloyd, and to Bob Early for your music. Having our backyard full of poetry, song, and fiction as the colors of the evening passed overhead… What a joy!
Fabulous to read last night at the beautiful Brewerton Center for the Arts with wonderful fellow poets Laura Donnelly, Kenneth Nichols, Stephanie Pritchard, Charlie Itzen, Tim McCoy, Devon Moore, and Steve Smith. Let’s hear it for National Poetry Month!
