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.

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Residency | 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.

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Clyde Rice at The Rice Place

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.

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Reading | 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.

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