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 …
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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 …
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Celebrating the life of photographer Paul Ickovic (1944-2023). He will be greatly missed. I wrote this essay about him in 2017. ~ The first time I met Paul Ickovic, whom I came to know as Pablo, he interrupted me as I sat working at an outdoor table of a cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts. He said …
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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 …
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.
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.
Thinking of Mary Oliver today as this riff on my favorite of her poems, the beautiful Sleeping in the Forest, arrived in my mailbox in this year’s Connecticut River Review. In honor too of my high school summer writing students who shared this moment with me. View this post on Instagram In honor of Mary …
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On my return from ten days on Cape Cod, I was excited to learn that my poem “Pomegranate” was selected as the 2nd-prize winner in the Poetry Society of New Hampshire’s national competition. Poet Alfred Nichol was the judge. The poem will appear in an upcoming issue of The Poets’ Touchstone. Hooray!
I’m so pleased and eager to announce that I’ll be this year’s judge for the New England Poetry Club 2019 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. The award goes out to a chapbook published within the last two years. My chapbook Water Street, from Finishing Line Press, won last year’s Pedrick Prize (alongside co-winner C. Prudence Arceneaux’s …
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This summer, I had the extraordinary opportunity to spend June as artist in residence at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. As the first poet they’d had in the position, I spent many hours wandering the sea-washed granite outcrops, peering …
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