Clearstories at R. Michelson Galleries

Clearstories, my poetry/image collaboration with photographer Stephen Petegorsky, is showing at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA this month. The exhibition, which features 17 of the pairs, was written up in a fine article by Steve Pfarrar in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. We also were interviewed on WHMP’s Talk the Talk along with gallery manager …

A shallow, wide river with stony banks passes through thick forest in Shutesbury, Massachusetts on a rainy day.

The Forest and the Trees

My latest journalistic piece came out in The Shoestring last month. The piece explores the conflict between the need to produce green energy in Massachusetts, and the pressure of solar development on lands we’d prefer to conserve, like forests and farmlands. What happens when large-scale, for-profit solar threatens green space? Are the local citizens challenging …

An art photo of the skeleton of a baby crocodile, by Stephen Petegorsky. The photo shows a yellow torso, greenish bones, and a patterned blue background that resembles ripples or mud.

Baby Crocodile in Scientific American

I was delighted to ring in the New Year with a published poem in the storied magazine Scientific American. The poem is part of my Clearstories collaboration with photographer Stephen Petegorsky. In “Baby Crocodile,” I drew on a memory of an encounter with a Florida alligator (a species of crocodilian). These reptiles seem cold and …

Clearstories

I’ve been collaborating with photographer Stephen Petegorsky on a set of paired poems and photos, titled Clearstories. An excerpt from the project has now been published as an online chapbook at Terrain.org: Clearstories The project explores animal specimens that have been cleared and stained, a process in which they are treated with an enzyme to …

Porcupine

My poem “Porcupine” is published this month in the Cider Press Review, and can be found here: Porcupine I wrote this poem watching a porcupine cropping grass at Smith College’s MacLeish Field Station in Whately, MA. I also caught a photo, shown above.

August

Happy to have a poem, August, featured in this blog post about the soundscapes of summer at CavanKerry Press, written by the delightful poet Teresa Carson. August, the most poignant month of summer, when katydids and crickets announce the season’s impending end.