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In praise of the sound of crunching leaves
It’s autumn, and despite being an agreeably insane sort of busy right now, I had a chance to go out at lunch today and take in the seasonal delights. Peak foliage around town was actually probably the end of last week, but there’s still a lot of gorgeous to be had, and that brilliant invigorating…
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Video: My reading at MassPoetry’s U35
I had a fabulous time a few weeks ago reading at the Marliave Restaurant in Boston, as part of MassPoetry’s U35 reading series. You can check out the videos of the other readers from that evening (Chen Chen and Sarah Tourjee) on the U35 site, as well as the bios for November’s upcoming readers. Also,…
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In Search of Mother-Daughter Adventure Stories
There are an awful lot of missing parents in middle grade, young adult, and classic adventure fiction. One or both (but more often the mother) are dead or missing or just mentally/emotionally absent, and substitute parental figures are often awful (I’m looking at you, fairytale stepmothers, wicked uncles, and well-intentioned but forgetful housemaids). I understand…
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Find out what the bees know
What’s the buzz, you ask? The summer issue of Window Cat Press is out, and in it are four of my poems, accompanied by photography by the ever-delightful Michele Morris. Check them out, and all the other goodies within here!
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Pondering Puddles
There was, as those of us in eastern Massachusetts know, quite a band of rain and hail that crossed through yesterday afternoon, which might be why the leader of our writers’ group last night had puddles on the brain. For one writing prompt, we were challenged to use the words ‘middle, addle, and puddle’ in…
