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””
Category Archives: poetry
Happy Birthday to this little book!
Bright Inhabited Lives turned one year old this weekend! Throughout this eventful year, it’s been such a joy to share these words with others in a variety of settings. From contemplative gatherings, to summer evening readings, to writers group meetings, and much more, I’ve delighting in hearing which poems meet each of my readers withContinue reading “Happy Birthday to this little book!”
New Poem at Stirring Lit
I’m delighted to share this poem with you, recently published by Stirring, an online literary journal. “Enough, Sometimes,” was written during a book arts residency in Greece. The prickly pears and persimmons bothAstonish you with their sweetness, withTheir gentle heart tucked behind spineAnd skin… Read the poem here!
New Post at As It Ought To Be
I’m grateful to share another new poem with you, published in As It Ought To Be’s recent March Edition. “The House at the End of the Road” was written very recently and I hope wherever you are in this “labyrinth of becoming” that we find ourselves in after three months of 2025, it offers youContinue reading “New Post at As It Ought To Be”
New Poem at Ekstasis Magazine
I’m grateful to have “Epilogue” recently published by Ekstasis Magazine in their Winter issue. “…And what you thought you came forWas only a shell, a hint of meaning,From which the purpose breaks only whenIt is fulfilled.” – T.S. Eliot This poem was the final poem in a series written during a book arts residency onContinue reading “New Poem at Ekstasis Magazine”
Bright, Inhabited Lives Now Available!
“Incidental to the evidence That meaning proves Like a dough, That thoughts do reach out From the page And claim us, knead Us into form, rise – An experience of the word So bodily, eyes In theContinue reading “Bright, Inhabited Lives Now Available!”
A Poem for the Turning of the Year at St. Katherine Review
How I wander through thesedays, stranger to my own making treading on thin spaces, and the cracks expand acrossthe distance to where You live. A wind blows and it whispers Only words of you. A crowsettles in the trees outsidethe window and calls Your name… Read the rest at the St. KatherineContinue reading “A Poem for the Turning of the Year at St. Katherine Review”
New Poem for Wee Sparrow Press
It was a joy to participate in the Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’s latest Ekphrastic challenge! I am also grateful they chose my poem, “Bark,” as a finalist. You can read all of the chosen poems, and view the artwork that inspired them, here!
Reading for Geez Magazine
I’ve been so grateful to be a part of Geez Magazine’s Advent devotional for two years now. However, this year when they asked me to read my poem for them, I had to take a few deep breaths before saying yes! What a delight it was to share this poem with many listeners and hearContinue reading “Reading for Geez Magazine”
A Time of Singing
Don’t you have a secret fondness for journals that are resisting the pull of the internet and remaining analog in their publications? A Time of Singing was generous enough to publish one of my poems this autumn, and it was such fun to receive this piece in the mail!
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