This month, I had the opportunity to read from my forthcoming poetry collection Lost Cathedral as part of the Writers Read series at the Ada Community Library in Star, ID.

This month, I had the opportunity to read from my forthcoming poetry collection Lost Cathedral as part of the Writers Read series at the Ada Community Library in Star, ID.

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 readingIn 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 readingIn April, I did a poetry reading at MING Studios as part of their 7 o’clock reading series.
Continue readingIn 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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