
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!




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!




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!



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!





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!



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!




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!




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!


