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“Blind Girl Reading”: New Ekphrastic Poem

I’m thrilled to see my submission for the Ekphrastic Review’s weekly challenge at the top of the page this week! An experience of the word So bodily, eyes In the meeting Of print and finger, Each word A journey your hand Must travel, send postage… Read the whole poem, and other winning submissions, here.

CHIHULY’S BASKETS

Enjoy this ekphrastic poem responding to the work of a local Northwest glassblower, Dale Chihuly. to resist your capacity to holdinvisible things to grow lucentlose everything even your darkness… Published here by As It Ought To Be.

Happy Birthday, Pilgrims I Have Been

This Fall my first collection of poems, Pilgrims I Have Been, turned one year old. It’s been a joy to continue hearing from those of you who are discovering these poems for the first time, or sharing them with others as we begin a new season. Putting this collection of poems out into the worldContinue reading “Happy Birthday, Pilgrims I Have Been”

Hidden Life in Nazareth, by Ivonka Demchuk

An east wind, she might have thought as she splayed the wooden beams and divided their garments Brushed aside the hammer and nails one more time to lay down that quilt of many colors. Read the rest at the St. Katherine Review

The House of the World

NFSPS Honorable Mention Now dusk drops its sheer curtains over the bruised hills Now the door of the day’s light closes with a crimson shudder, leaves the porch light stuttering on for the moon. Hogs and leopards return to her dark hearth; flowers genuflect and softly enter their dim cathedrals. And the restless ones stirContinue reading “The House of the World”

What’s on my bookshelf

Here are some of the books and authors I’ve been enjoying so far in 2021! Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (always a good re-read!) The Idiot – Dostoyevsky From the Holy Mountain – William Dalrymple Hannah Coulter – Wendell Berry Tell me: what was the last book you couldn’t put down?

OPA Pandemic Anthology

I’m pleased to announce that two of my poems from Pilgrims I Have Been have been selected to appear in the Oregon Poetry Foundation’s 2020 Anthology! Look for more information on where you can purchase this anthology when it is available at the end of this month.

Pilgrims I Have Been

My first full-length book of poems, Pilgrims I Have Been, released October 1st! You can check it out in paperback and ebook versions here.