This past year I joined a game of Telephone! My poet friend Kortney Garrison, who always has the best gems of recommendations, clued me in and I promptly joined. All in all, over a thousand artists across the world used each other’s work as a creative catalyst for a new work, in many different disciplines.Continue reading “Playing Telephone with Nine (or Nine Hundred) Other Artists”
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Four Poems at SoulForte
It is my great pleasure to share four poems with you this month, published by the Institute for Spiritual Poetry’s online journal, SoulForte. From Celtic knots to fog-smothered oceans, I hope you enjoy this collection of meditations on life lived “up close.” Read the poems here.
New Poem at St. Katherine Review (4 of 4)
How close apocalypse feels touching this stone. Like every generation, I imagine the wars and violence of my age an arrow the fire-swept forests of my youth a type. Strange how we tame fire within these walls in beeswax, gentle wick lapping up the night. Strange and sorrow when I read just after theContinue reading “New Poem at St. Katherine Review (4 of 4)”
New Poem at We Choose Welcome
It was my great joy to partner with We Choose Welcome to share this poem, “Invisible” Women. From the notes: “Invisible” Women gives language to the quiet strength of women the world tries not to see. Women whose hands prepare meals, whose voices hum songs of survival, whose courage endures even when sorrow is ignored.Continue reading “New Poem at We Choose Welcome”
New Poem at St. Katherine Review (3 of 4)
The third poem in a series of four with St. Katherine Review is now available. There is no end of them, it seems: these doors Within doors, propped open in their own good Time, containing ancient worlds within… Read the full poem here.
New Poem at St. Katherine Review (2 of 4)
We barely knew, then, what it meant to venerate A life that shone ahead like a mid-day star; How to stumble into churches with their damp Stone and let a prayer rise to our lips like heat, Or what to take from the cacophony of tales… Read more over at St. Katherine Review.
New Poem at St. Katherine Review (1 of 4)
“A desire path, also known as desire line in transportation planning and many other names, is an unplanned small trail formed by erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or the most easily navigated route between an origin and destination” – Wikipedia Read a poem inspired by this quoteContinue reading “New Poem at St. Katherine Review (1 of 4)”
A Reading of “Time-Molt, Tender, by Annaliese Jakimides”
As the final poem I’ll be reading to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Bright Inhabited Lives‘, what better poem to end on than the final poem of the book? This poem was written in response to the artwork featured, Time-Molt, Tender, by Annaliese Jakimides (USA) 2022, and first published by the Ekphrastic Review. You can learnContinue reading “A Reading of “Time-Molt, Tender, by Annaliese Jakimides””
A Reading from “Like the Light, She Arrives”
In continuing with this small celebration of Bright Inhabited Lives‘ one-year anniversary, I’m reading an excerpt from another prominent series of poems in the book, based on the artwork of Vilhelm Hammershøi. This poem is a connected series of seven haibun poems, all exploring themes of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s interior works. Take a listen here: You canContinue reading “A Reading from “Like the Light, She Arrives””
A Reading from “Blind Girl Reading, by Ejnar Nielsen”
As I celebrate Bright Inhabited Lives‘ one year anniversary, enjoy this reading of one of the poems that launched the collection! The full title of the painting is Blind Woman Reading Braille Volume. You can read more about the artist of this work, Ejnar Nielsen, here. Image credit: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins SchoolContinue reading “A Reading from “Blind Girl Reading, by Ejnar Nielsen””
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