Following the publication of my poem “ordinary day” in International Human Rights Art Movement’s Hannah Arendt-focused anthology, I was interviewed along with Shumaila Hemani for a podcast by Roger Berkowitz. At some point in the conversation, I read “ordinary day,” which explores some ways in which we normalize systemic injustice, reflecting Arendt’s concept of “the…
Feature poet at Beast Crawl on April 12th
Check out the full Beast Crawl schedule. I’ll be reading on Sunday afternoon!
A free urban writing retreat
I will be teaching one of the workshops! Bay Area Writing Project’s Celebration of WritingTheme: Solidarity, Strength, and JoySaturday, April 18, 20262121 Berkeley Way, UC Berkeley School of Education8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (come for a portion of the day or participate in the full schedule)Registration is free Schedule8:30-9:15: Author’s Tables, Meet & Greet9:15-9:40: Community…
Publishing a middle-grade novel in verse…
…from the April 21st Publishers Weekly Rights Report
Smoke & Fires & Poetry
A handful of poems that I wrote about my experiences of fire seasons over the years in Northern California has been published by Cutleaf Journal. This photo was taken during an evacuation as we drove from a pocket of clear air into the thick smoke of another wildfire in Wyoming.