Poems + Creative Nonfiction
I’m a Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the Community of Writers, and I just bought a typewriter.
A Poet, Wayfinding
Journal of Museum Education
This lyric essay responds to an inquiry of how being a poet influences my work as an interpretive writer for museums and cultural institutions.
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Chapbooks
A multi-year series of collaborations with the artisans at Shakespeare Press Museum in San Luis Obispo, California yielded limited-edition, hand-bound, letterpress collections of my original poems. Guided by professor emeritus and master printer Tom Goglio, the Cal Poly students used a combination of current technology and 19th and early 20th century presses to print the works.
Ground • 2007
Letterpress collection of poems about the Earth.
the place within where the universe resides • 1993
a hand-stitched, letterpress collection of poems
Readings and Art Exhibitions
Studio Kipp, Mapping Meaning, Rhinebeck, NY
Encounters & Entanglements, Kohl Gallery, Washington College, Chestertown, MD • "Studies in Making and Unmaking," Video installation with Trudi Lynn Smith and Krista Caballero
Instagram Live Reading — Tidy Type Cranbrook Print Media Takeover
Language of the Soul — Feature poet, San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, San Luis Obispo, CA
Goodyear Arts with Jeff Jackson, Charlotte, NC
(re) Surveying the Source: Entanglements of Water, History, and Form, Centennial Valley, MT
William Carroll Writers Festival, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
Call Your Mother
Writing this blog supported me through my kids’ coming of age