Happy National Poetry Month! What a fitting time to take Whiny Baby on the road, for her first little book tour. Here is where you can catch me sharing poems and signing books this month: Saturday April 6th ONLINE at noon Mountain Time–a Zoom reading sponsored by Freefall Magazine and …
And there’s a new baby on the way… due date April 15th, 2024. It’s my second poetry collection with MQUP, and I’m very excited to welcome it to the world. We often call our works our “book babies,” and this time, it’s doubly true. With another captivating cover by David …
Remember that feeling you get when your plane takes off? It might not be a fresh memory, given the times we’re in. For me, it feels close to elation, that lift-off, that leaving things behind, heading off to somewhere fresh and new, especially if it’s a vacation I’m beginning. I …
I don’t want to wash it. It feels like the first dirt I’ve ever felt, the best colour to mark my lifelines, the right thing to celebrate. Nine months into this pandemic, my face craves the rain and my palm, when it hits the ground to break my slide down …
When I walk in the autumn, I pick up a fallen leaf and hold it for the duration, as talisman, security blanket, reminder of beauty, colour, texture, life. Today I picked up one of the maple leaves that face-plant when they fall, their stems pointing back from where they came …
Here’s the pretty graphic about the new workshop I’m offering in 2021. Scroll down for all the details! The Creative Six-Pack What is it? A series of low-stress, fun and generative writing courses delivered monthly, to help focus, support, and/or kick-start your writing practice. When? Beginning January 4th, 2021, it …
