✨For poetry month, I want to announce that my first full collection KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD will see you all in 2026. Thank you to Jen Harris, Simone Muench, & Trevor Ketner over at @JacklegPress for believing in this project and opening the door for me.
Heavy heart. Gonna leave this space for a while and try to carve out a spot somewhere else online. Bluesky? Was never great at it. I’ll see you fellow writers and poets at reading series, lit events, open mics. ❤️ my upcoming events is on my site. Link in bio
Finally on Sunday, saw readings by Veronica Sandoval, Gris Muñoz, Emily Prado, Stephanie Adams-Santos. Stirring work channeling family & history—the burdens, the ghosts, the joys of our loved ones. Esp meaningful for me in the wake of Day of the Dead/ Undas🖤 #pdxbookfest
#PDXBookFest this year and their main acts thrilled as usual. Some faves: Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones for the a timely horror catharsis; Danez Smith, Morgan Parker, Shayla Lawson for their poetics, Danzy Senna for the biting humor. Caught poet Ruth Dickey at a popup
Cover to Cover events on the periphery rocked too. Had the privilege to participate at the always quirky HOCUS along with fellow poets Andrea Deeken and Theresa Q. Tran and prose writers Derek R. Smith and Meg Currel. We shapeshifted. #pdxbookfest
I learned today that there are 2,100-year-old trees in Colorado whose locations are kept secret in order to ensure their conservation and this is my new religion
We are excited to announce the theme for our Spring 2025 Issue! “FREAK” —
Puerto del Sol is seeking work which engages with the theme of freak. Freaking, to freak, to be freaked. A freaky thing. Freak has a past: a rotten one. Freak us out, please…we’re begging ✨
PSA: Be kind to your poet friends these next couple weeks. Lol it's gonna be e m o t i o n a l
"As many others have pointed out, the poets are going to lose their minds."
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A new project from U.S. Poet Laureate @adalimon, the @LibraryCongress, Poetry Society of America and National Park Service is installing poetry in national parks.
PBS @NewsHour has the story from the Cape Cod National Seashore!
we seriously need to stop putting so much pressure on first books, i’m reading a first book rn that is horrible HOWEVER seven books later the same person wrote one of the most blisteringly brilliant book i’ve ever read, IT IS ALL ABOUT GROWTH AND GIVING WRITERS A CHANCE TO GROW