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Some people excel at creating community and supporting other writers, and Michael Simms is one of them. I love his online zine, VOX POPULI, that features poems, essays, short films, short fiction and more–from hard-hitting to open-hearted content. And today he is featuring one of my poems from my new …

Thank you to Braided Way for naming my poem Seeking Purpose one of their 2024 Best of the Net! I am honored to be in the company of so many incredible writers and poets, see their work below the poem. Seeking Purpose The golden opportunity you are seeking is in …

I’m so excited to share my new book with you! The Unfolding, published by Wildhouse Publishing, will release on October 1. Every week in October I’ll visit my local bookstore, Between the Covers Bookstore, to sign copies and they’ll be shipped out that week! Stay tuned for details on how …

One of the great joys in my life has been having poems transformed into choral music thanks to the SHARED VISIONS program hosted by the incredible Ars Nova Singers, led by Tom Morgan. This past year one of my poems was set to music by the Raul Dominguez. The piece, …

I love finding other people who want to go all the way down to the heart of things and roll around in paradox … and so I especially loved this long conversation with musician, filmmaker and clinical therapist Michael Brant DeMaria on his fabulous podcast The Other Side of Things, …

Fear and gratefulness at the same time? Yeah. I explore that in this poem, “Amen,” published at Grateful.org. While you’re there, check out their other poems—reading their poems is like the hug I sometimes need after reading the news. It doesn’t make the bad news go away, but it reminds …

A love letter from the dead? In this poem I imagine “the letter that does not come” and practice finding peace in the silence, a place to rest in the mystery. Published in the fabulous Vox Populi … and it will be in my new collection, The Unfolding, coming out October …

There may be no greater pain in life than that of losing a child; the gaping hole felt when a young life is abruptly cut short, leaving parents to deal with a void that can be difficult to comprehend, and a journey to make sense of the heartache that follows. …

You know that feeling when you feel the vastness of the world and yourself a part of it? That’s at the heart of this poem, “Meadow,” published in Vox Populi and coming this fall in my new book, The Unfolding. Go check out the whole zine–I love the blend of poetry, …

I so enjoyed my conversation with Tei Taiyarï on his program Wild Heart Revival, talking about the practice of poetry, the ever-unfolding curiosity about what is here, what is true? and how openly (and why) we might experience and share grief, wonder and love. You can watch our conversation on …