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Holiday Mathis and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer collaborate again in this poetry video celebrating love–the rain and the river and the moon of it all–the coming together, the brokenness, the beauty. * Love, Though I am undeniably broken, I come to you with no need to be fixed. I come to …

Join co-hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews for Stubborn Praise: An evening celebrating here and now through poetry. This program, recorded on March 9, 2021, featured guest Ellen Bass. All three poets read, Ellen includes new work and some of her most beloved poems including Relax, The Thing Is, …

I love the Turning Towards Life Podcast in which co-hosts Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise discuss poems and other texts and help us see how they inform the choices we make in our daily lives. On their February 28, 2021 episode,  they explore my poem “Saying Yes” and discuss the …

It’s never been more important to treat each other with tenderness–that’s the theme of this brief cinepoem created by the amazing astrologer/songwriter/trash-picker/inspiration waterfall Holiday Mathis.  I love what happens with poetry meets image–thank you, Holiday!!! Collaborations are so much better than playing alone.

In this special evening of Stubborn Praise: Celebrating the here and now through poetry, co hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews feature Young People’s Poet Laureate and widely beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, author of “Cast Away,” “Everything Comes Next,” “Fuel,” and many other award-winning poetry books. After the …

What the world needs now is more Dolly–more generosity, more creativity, more attention given to kids, more play, more serious work. To honor the singer & philanthropist’s 75th birthday, Limp Wrist magazine hosted a special issue of poems celebrating Dolly–her lyrics, her looks, her acts, her Dolly-ness, including one I …

In the most recent issue of Buddhist Poetry Review Volume 3 Issue 4, I have these three poems published, alongside many other wonderful poets and poems. After After the anger dries up and falls away like an old dried husk, it might be you feel like laughing— at yourself it …

Poeming into the New Year: A poetry thoughtshop on transformation and honoring the moment The start of a new year is a natural chance to recalibrate—to get curious and let everything come into question. What a time to be amazed and astonished, to open ourselves to transformation. Poetry, both reading …

In this December 2020 evening of Stubborn Praise, James Crews and I invited Laura Foley to share poems. After, the three of us talked about how worry does or doesn’t help creative process, how writing poems can help us “soften toward pain,” and so much more.

It was so fun conversing with Kara Johnstad on Om Times Radio in her wonderful show Voice Rising. She asked such insightful questions about how poetry might help us meet the world (and ourselves), and I loved the wide-angled lens she uses. We read poems from my latest book, Hush, …