Blog Posts

  • Sunshiny Summer News: Poems in Print!

    Happy summer, all! In the wake of last week’s downright delightful Supreme Court decisions on health care and marriage equality, I have less-momentous but much more immediately personal good news; I have four poems that are being published this summer on Window Cat Press. Window Cat is an online literary journal run by a fabulous…

  • Are you reading this on your handheld supercomputer?

    Happy Monday, all, this is going to be a science-fiction week on Sea Dreams & Time Machines! We’re starting with a really fun video about sci-fi predictions that are now today’s everyday facts from the awesome folks over at “It’s Okay to Be Smart.” Enjoy! Plus, Top 10 Star Trek Technologies that Actually Came True…

  • Sounds, scuba, and spine-tingles: MA Poetry Fest 2015 wrap-up

    I have a fabulous time at the Mass Poetry Festival every year.  Every year I learn something new about writing, I am bowled over by a poet (or multiple poets) whose work I hadn’t before had a chance to appreciate, I get to spend time surrounded by people who love words as much as I…

  • Narratives Found: A day of surprise and serious wordsmithing

    I have lots of thoughts about the last few days of the Mass Poetry Festival, so expect those in a subsequent post, but first I’d like to say ‘thanks!’ to everyone who attended my workshop “Found Narratives” on Sunday morning at the Peabody Essex Museum. I promised I’d put my presentation up online, so the…

  • May 1-3: Poetry, the sea, and me

    The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is this weekend, and I’m geared up and ready to go! If you’ll be in Salem for the festival, here are places to find me:* Friday 1:15 pm – “Because, the Internet” workshop 3:30 pm – Poetry meetup at Howling Wolf 7:30 pm – Headliner reading with Denise Duhamel, Nick Flynn,…