BOATS FOR WOMEN, Sandra Yannone, Salmon Poetry, 2019. If you don’t know Sandra Yannone, I am here to tell you, you really should. In addition to being Poet Laureate of her hometown, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, consider this impressive list of activities from her website: She is co-founder and host of Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, an […]
My Heart Is Not Asleep, Thomas A. Thomas, MoonPath Press 2024. William Wordsworth famously described poetry as “strong emotion…recollected in tranquility,” and that is how I want to think about—or think with and through—this collection of poems by Thomas A. Thomas, a photographer and an extraordinary poet, now the Assistant Managing Editor at MoonPath Press. […]
A quick heads’ up for anyone living near Pelican Bay Books & Coffeehouse in Anacortes, Washington. I’m really excited (and honored) to have been invited to read for the Madrona Reading Series, no less alongside the great Michael Daley. Saturday, Feb. 28, 6 p.m. Having a little difficulty pasting in the poster — I seem […]
Okay, okay, I know it’s been a long time. What have I been busy with? Trying to undo some of the house problems that I had paid little or no attention to for the previous 40 years of my life. (For the previous 69 years of my life, now that I think about it.) Trying […]