Here I am reading Charles Wright’s poem “Night Journal” for Read a Little Poetry’s 20th anniversary celebration. Posted today at Read a Little Poetry . ❤️
My new chapbook has been released: I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST
Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It’s free or you can pay whatever you want for it! Get your copy today! Read it while riding the rails, taking breaks from making love, setting out lemon cakes for your backyard tea party with neighborhood cats, sitting on a bus…Whatever! We hope you enjoy these poems. And huge ever-shimmering thanks to Kevin Bertolero and Ghost City Press.
Get yer copy here: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest
Wonderful reading for the Seneca Review last night on Seneca Lake!
Last night’s Seneca Review reading, for contributors, editors, and staff, was AMAZING! So much awesome writing and wonderful readers! Just a joy and an inspiration to be a part of it! And the venue, Two Goats Brewing on the picturesque shores of Seneca Lake, was breathtaking. A dynamite view for a reading, under a rising saffron moon.
I’m reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow!
I’m reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us!
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Seneca Review & Seneca Review Books will be hosting a rapid-fire reading at Two Goats Brewing to showcase several of our recent contributors and newest editors. There will be a prize drawing and giveaway, plus the newest issue and SRB’s full-length titles will be on display, as will some of the readers’ recent publications. Each reader will read original work for 3-5 minutes. Readers include: Donald Revell, Kathryn Cowles, Robert Glick, Danny Schonning, Christopher Citro, Jessica Franken, Michael Flatt, Laura Glenn, Olivia Dunn, Supritha Rajan, Wren Tuatha, Albert Abonado, Elim Pilet, Hazel Brown, Laura Thérien and Geoffrey Babbitt.
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference Final Post!
And so ends another nourishing, inspiring week teaching at Paul Smith’s College, with the celebration readings at the Forestry Cabin. Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!?! Ya’ did it again! Thank you everyone for making that week so magical!
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A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, and me… Going for a writer’s walk in the woods at Paul Smith’s College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
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More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks! Late night socializing on the deck over Lower St. Regis Lake, floating in on said lake, the book table and Ghost City Press, and watching geese do their geese thing!
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Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Hanging with friends (fellow writers and teachers) on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
And now it’s….Kettle Pond Writers Conference! In Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks! What a joy to be teaching here for my 6th year, the 6th year of this conference! The awesome faculty, the awesome staff, the awesome participants! Loons singing at night!
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!
