Honored to have two new poems in the recent issue of Willow Springs, and with a fellow SIU poet!

Coming this month!

New poems in the latest @diodeeditions.bsky.social-gratitude for the editors who helped usher these forth 💫

Happy Fathers Day 🥹 The greatest dad for baby Julian 💫

This month, Colorado Humanities had its NEH grant terminated as a sweeping DOGE effort to dismantle public funding for the humanities nationwide. As a high school teacher I can’t stress enough how devastating this is on the state level for K-12 education. Support by visiting: coloradohumanities.org

Thank you Colorado Humanities for this huge honor. I am stunned and excited to be in this company. Funding for the humanities remains under threat- check out ways to help statewide initiatives to maintain cultural programs here: coloradohumanities.org

Grateful for passionate local bookstores like Mountain Shire: Books & Gifts for hosting an author meet and greet with me this afternoon! Always a reason to be in the mountains talking poetry 🏔️ I can’t believe this book has been in the world for almost eight months 🌹

Those of you already up in Winter Park CO, or if you are in need of a nice mountain drive, come say hello to me Saturday November 23rd 1-3pm) at Mountain Shire Books! I will be discussing my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds” and there will be copies for purchase 😊 🌹

Tonight! Come through for some poems about homesickness, places that no longer exist and the theology of gossip. Very excited to read alongside poet @andrewhemmert.bsky.social

Back to binge reading! Corey Van Landingham renders language and perspective in unabashed, incredibly intelligent poems in Reader, I.

Great company today on my way into Seattle

Slowly making my way through my AWP stacks. Loving these beautiful collections by Austin Segrest and Danielle Cadena Deulen ⭐️

Grateful for the chance to see these cool dudes again at AWP in Kansas City. Miss SIU and the poetic drive of Carbondale more and more. Thanks for the great conversations @thatbrentonguy.bsky.social can’t wait for more down the road!

AWP! I’ll be at the Sarabande booth Thursday and with Lost Horse Press on Friday. Come visit with other amazing writers within the anthology “Once A City Said” that originally housed several poems that became my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds”. I can’t wait to see you there! ⭐️ 🌹 🖤

She’s here! Advance copies arrived today 🌹 Getting myself ready for AWP madness. Stay tuned for April 1, 2024!