Some stuff, since it’s been a while! Upcoming events at Brookdale Community College, Word Up NYC, and L’Etage Philadelphia. Happy/Sad in Philly is going to be so good, so double plug for that. I am over the moon that A Constellation of Half-Lives was selected by Beltway Poetry Quarterly as one of the top ten books of 2019.…
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Summer is ending and school is starting and there are things to do and while I’ll miss sitting by the pool (the five or six times I did it this summer), I’m ready. I have a busy fall of teaching and am really looking forward to the school supply trip, the focus and organizing and…
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About a month ago, some really beautiful people in Santa Fe opened their home to me. I was in town for a poetry event, and as supporters of the theater, they often host performers. They bestowed immense kindness upon me, laughed with me, looked out for me and shared their wisdom. They made me feel…
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The amazing Kate Gale ran workshops for us last week. She shared some poems she loves, read us some of her own incredible work and then challenged us to rewrite our own stories. Kate shared this incredible poem by Brynn Saito (linked here at Drunken Boat), and another poem by Saito. Kate’s prompt was about…
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