Day 4 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! A writers walk in nature, featuring the Butterfly Tent, irises along a boardwalk, followed by ice cream! In the morning, I taught my 2nd generative session: goodbye poems and short poems!
Announcing my 6-week SUMMER 2026 private poetry workshop, “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry,” which meets on Wednesdays 6-8 pm ET, starting July 8.
Class takes place on Zoom and can be recorded to watch later if you are absent.
Earlybird discounted registration has just opened and closes July 1.
Regular registration closes July 7.
Click this link for more info and to register by credit card.
Day 3 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! Hanging on the lake with St. Regis Mountain, and with friends Kia and Damaris, then at night hearing readings by the wonderful Jaclyn Gilbert and the wonderful Deirdre Coyle!
Day 2 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! I taught my generative workshop with sun poems and apostrophe poems! Then in the evening we had readings by the wonderful Ashley Mayne and the wonderful Chen Chen! In the night, accordion music accompanied by loons on Lower St Regis Lake.
Kettle Pond Writers Conference kicked off with an opening reading by the wonderful fiction writer Michael J. Seidlinger and the wonderful poet Kevin Bertolero!
And now it’s….Kettle Pond Writers Conference! In beautiful Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks! What a joy to be teaching here for my 7th year, the 7th year of this conference! The awesome faculty, the awesome staff, the awesome participants, the awesome location! Loons singing at night!
Here’s a video of me reading my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” from the American Poetry Review.
Hot golly! My poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” has just been published in Bellingham Review’s Issue 92 online! Thank you so much to Jane Wong, Sam X Wong, Cassidy Spencer, Miriam Milena, Luke Chavez and everyone who makes BR such a joy.
Day 6 and 7 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…teaching my Literary Publishing class, attending the closing ceremonies…then traveling home from that little island I love so much! Thank you so much to all the awesome attendees, faculty, and staff who made this MVICW 2026 such a warm and wonderful time!!!
Day 5 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…teaching my workshops Flash Away and Welcoming Surprises, then faculty Dinner at Oak Bluff’s Black Joy Kitchen followed by the traditional late night visit to Back Door Donuts!
