Blog Posts

  • Reading in Improbable Places

      Just a heads up to say I’m reading as part of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour this Sunday, September 18, at Green Meadows Farm, from 3-5 pm.  More details are available on facebook. The theme is “Harvest/Moon,” and I’m looking forward to the combination of music, food, and celestial phrases!  Hope to see you…

  • Readercon Wrap-Up

    I had a fantastic time at Readercon, so much so, in fact, that I totally failed to take pictures or tweet more than about twice. I did take about a thousand pages worth of notes, not just of the thought-provoking things people were saying, but of ideas that I was generating for stories, and things…

  • Readercon on the horizon

    It’s difficult as a thinking, feeling, breathing human being not to be incredibly distressed by the needless violence of the last week, from the horrific ISIS bombings in Medina and Baghdad to the senseless deaths of both civilians and cops here in the US. Life is messy, and people can be horrible, and standing in…

  • The World in a Grain of Sand

    As always, the Mass Poetry Festival was awesome. The sun shone on the small press fair and the Poetry Circus, the readers were in good voice, and it was fabulous catching up with friends. I particularly enjoyed the “embodied creativity” yoga & writing workshop and the poets who read their works written in Emily Dickinson’s…

  • Found: Poetry, Art, and Longfellow connections

    I had a great time leading two workshops at the Longfellow House/Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site to help celebrate National Poetry Month. “Something New, Something Strange:” Found Poetry Workshop This workshop included lots of discussion of found poetry in the 21st century, including the many ways the internet has made found poetry more possible, varied,…