My long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” accepted at Poetry Northwest!!

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Oh.My.Goodness. Poetry Northwest just accepted my long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” one of the poetic experiments I started 2 summers ago, carrying around a special notebook during my travels, collecting images, bits of overheard dialogue, to build a long poem from (it’s 5 pages, which is long for me). I’m over-the-moon to have this poem appear in Poetry Northwest. It’ll be my third appearance in this awesome journal! Thank you so much Bill Carty, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan, Keetje Kuipers, and everyone at PN!

“The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering” release reading!

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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!

Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest!

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Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!

Friends at the Unbound Book Festival!

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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!

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

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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!

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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!

Signing the colophon for my new collaborative chapbook from Aureole Press!

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Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative 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! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!