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It was heaven–being live and reading and laughing and crying with James Crews an Laura Foley. James Crews reads from his recent book, The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal; Laura Foley reads from It’s This; and Rosemerry Wahtola Trimmer reads from All the Honey; with Q&A …

What a joy to be in person with my friend James Crews, a poet and anthologer I admire so deeply. Here’s the recording of our reading at the wonderful Battenkill Books in upstate New York in late September, 2023. Join us in big time as I read from All the …

It’s an honor, a joy, to see a poem recast in the hands of an artist. What a thrill to see what Jim Cokas has done with my poem, “In Crepuscular Light,” offering such movement and color and energy to this letterpress print–only 50 made. It was a part of …

What a joy to go deeply into the creation of a poem–I just love the way Ken Salzmann wrote about our interview in his blog, “How to Grow a Poem.” We talked about poetry in general, but very specifically we spoke about what went into writing “For When People Ask”–the …

Last year, on the anniversary of my son’s death, I wrote a poem for my daughter, “The One Who Thrives.” It celebrates all the ways she has learned to show up in times when it has been very, very hard. I first shared this video on the eve of her …

I have long loved the Colorado Poet’s Center newsletter, and this quarter I was delighted to be featured with fabulous questions from Kathy Winograd. We talk about poetry paths outside the MFA, making poems accessible, and my new ventures into audio. You can find the full article here. Full disclosure, …

I love Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry–a fabulous blog by Catherine Schweig. And it’s a joy to have a poem there again after many years–“Learning to Lie Still.”   Learning to Lie Still     It isn’t easy. Good, then, to have a cat come lie in the …

I am over the moon about a new collaborative project–an album of poems celebrating the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. Dark Praise features guitar by the amazing Steve Law, and the accompanying videos feature surrealist art by fine art …