Story time and book making with the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club at The Wren’s Nest.

I have a new poem out at Segullah this month! segullah.org/verdigris-va...

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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No Kings in Atlanta

with 6/8 of the family out with some sort of not-COVID summer sniffles, I once again turn to this wonderful study showing viral prevalence by household size and the fact that families with 6 kids have a viral infection present 87% of the year (or 10.5 months!) academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

Our poster on creative ethnography and poetic exploration in research was awarded first place in Language and Literacy Education at UGA’s MFECOE Research Conference!

I found @patzmiller.bsky.social's "Sophie's Squash" the other day and had to bring it home to read to my pumpkin-loving toddler who'd kept a pumpkin in her bed from October until January when I finally convinced her to drop it in the garden (in exchange for a knit pumpkin). She loved the story!

Reading @reemfaruqi.bsky.social’s “Call Me Adnan” with the kids. We’re enjoying it—and playing ping pong—but I am already dreading where the foreshadowing is leading my mind…

Party! At the blood moon

The latest issue of Irreantum (21.4) came out today.

My poem 🫐 "In which my toddler eats forbidden fruit" 🫐 is the first piece. Enjoy!

And Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

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I’m excited to be on the long list for this year’s Holiday Lit Blitz! www.mormonlitlab.org/post/the-hol...

Heyyy my 9-yo daughter won the Georgia Writers Museum's 2024 Spooky Story Contest with "The Mystery of Doll's Head Trail"! www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/the-mystery-...

Inspired by Atlanta's own weird Doll's Head Trail

You see the way I read my article on phenomenology? Very demure, very studious...until a paragraph citing Heidegger uses the words thoughtful, mindful, and heedful in rapid succession. Then I get a little cutesy...but still demure.

In case you want to read something more (or something different), I also had two sonnets published in the April 2024 issue of Poetry Porch: "Lactogenesis: On the first day" and "Baby-led weaning at 18 months" www.poetryporch.com/scroll.html

My piece—"Prayer Poems: A Trilogy"—is now available to read in the latest issue of Segullah (accompanied by a lovely crochet mural by Mette Ivie)!

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In the past few days, @nancyheiss.bsky.social officially graduated with her MA in education (literacies and children's literature) from UGA, and had her first first-authored journal article go live (digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol15/i...), *and* is about to submit her PhD application (!)