A Letter from France (or soon after)

Take a moment (or a week or a month) to remember why you write

Take a moment (or a week or a month) to remember why you write

What's in your nest? A poem? An anthology plan? A novel? An empty page?

My fourth full-length poetry collection, The Earth Clock, is forthcoming in January 2027 from Anhinga Press.

Feeling like the zeitgeist's pretty hot on the psyche? Me too.

Thoughts on Writing Persistence, Transitions, Hope

Opportunities, Community in New Places, Forthcoming Work and Events!

We Need Each Other Right Now

Some Writing Habits that Worked For Me (a list!), Publishing Opportunities, Fallen Trees, A Look Back and A Look Ahead!

(Also, Sagittarius writers, where you at? )

Sometimes (the writing) life batters us like rain storms and brings the leaves down--and we keep going anyway.

Press Play to hear the author read their piece. Jupiter in Retrograde October through early February, the horoscope saidthere will be second guessing what is already known. Intuition should be bala…

Press Play to hear the author read their piece. Jupiter in Retrograde October through early February, the horoscope saidthere will be second guessing what is already known. Intuition should be bala…

Updates, Recaps, Inspirations, and Recs for Writers

This is the best messaging I’ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.

Sometimes when I cannot write I remember my professor’s astonishing beauty, how we fell before the heft of her hair, lay down on her creased pages &

Sometimes when I cannot write I remember my professor’s astonishing beauty, how we fell before the heft of her hair, lay down on her creased pages &

Writing life updates and opportunities (after a week of water and forest on the St. Lawrence)

Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat     in September, a pause, & once-ferocious weeds die back. Ripe tomatoes

ALT: a wolf is running through the snow in a forest