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.
I somehow didn’t post this essay that I wrote based on my time as artist in residence at the Isles of Shoals. Published by the wonderful nature-writing magazine Terrain.org, it centers on a necropsy of a seal pup that died from entanglement in ‘ghost gear,’ or a lost fishing net. With the seal’s body as …
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I have some thrilling news, which is that my middle-grade novel, THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN, will be published by Walker Books US in the spring of 2022: I’m so happy to have this opportunity to put a book into the world about a theme dear to my heart: a young person’s bond with nature. As …
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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!
Nature journals have been on my mind lately. Really, they’re always on my mind. The practice of nature journaling has been with me since I first started bird-watching at 12 years old. I’d go outdoors with a notebook, binoculars and a Rite in the Rain pen or pencil in tow. Then I’d take notes and …
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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