Last month, I had the opportunity to read work from Lost Cathedral, my forthcoming ecopoetry collection, as one of two featured readers for the SoulFood Poetry Night reading series in Redmond (outside Seattle).
Continue readingReadings | Boise State University MashUp & Erma Hayman House Art Day
This fall, I had the opportunity to participate in two Boise-based readings. This post covers information and photos from both readings.
MashUp | Boise State University College of Innovation and Design
This September, I participated in the College of Innovation and Design’s MashUp: Little Lectures in an Odd World event series. The series pairs experts in different fields who each present a talk about their research. Afterwards, audience members have to combine the two talks into questions to ask the presenters.
Residency | Cape Disappointment State Park (Long Beach Peninsula)
In May and early June, I spent time at Cape Disappointment State Park as an artist-in-residence in the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. I spent a week hiking through coastal rainforests, headlands, beaches, and coves on Cape Disappointment and the Long Beach Peninsula.
Continue readingResidency | The Rice Place (Oregon)
In May, I spend a week at The Rice Place, an artist residency in Oregon. The Rice Place was named for novelist and memoirist Clyde Rice, who published his first book (the memoir A Heaven in the Eye) at eighty one.
The residency took place at Rice’s former home, a 1930s farm house situated within 10 acres of farmland along the Clackamas River, views of lush foliage from every window.
Continue readingReading | MING Studios 7 O’clock Series
In April, I did a poetry reading at MING Studios as part of their 7 o’clock reading series.
Continue readingReading | Storyfort 2023
In March, I read at the Poetry & Mimosas event at Ochos for the Storyfort literary festival (one of the “forts” of Treefort Music Festival).
I read environmental poetry from an ongoing collection I wrote for a National Park residency. You can hear a recording of poems from the collection on Episode 72 of the MING Studios My On Mondays podcast series hosted by JR Rivero Kinsey.
Continue readingSeaside Coastal Wildflowers of Pacifica and San Francisco (Northern California)
Last spring, I spent time in northern California in the San Francisco area. This post documents some of the May and June coastal wildflowers I saw while hiking near San Francisco and Pacifica.
Continue readingReading | Flipside Fest & Death Rattle Literary 9th Anniversary Showcase
I recently participated in two literary readings: Flipside Fest in September and the Death Rattle 9th Anniversary Showcase in November.
Flipside Fest is a music and art festival put on by the Duck Club in Garden City, Idaho as a way to harness the energy from the Treefort Music Festival that happens in Idaho every spring.
Old-Growth Coastal Redwood Forests Of Muir Woods National Monument (Northern California)
Recently, I visited Muir Woods National Monument, one of the last surviving old-growth coastal redwood forests in the world. I’ve been fascinated with old-growth forests since I was an Artist-in-Residence for the National Park Service at an old-growth Douglas fir forest in southwestern Oregon.
The monument was named for John Muir, an American conservationist, and a personal hero. Coastal redwood forests like this boast the world’s tallest trees. The tallest redwood in the park is a mere 258 feet. That’s over three blue whales (our largest animal) stacked end-to-end.
Habitat Restoration in Military Reserve and Diane Moore Nature Center
Last month, I had the opportunity to do habitat restoration for the city of Boise by planting seedlings in Fort Boise Military Reserve Park and along the Boise River Side Channel.
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