You never know what you might find if you type your own name into the search bar. I discovered that in addition to putting out fine printed copies of their journal, the editors of Santa Fe Literary Review have been posting the issues on line. So I found six of my poems in as many issues going back to 2008. You can see them by going to the Links page of this web site. Oh and I also found an essay and two poems from my time at the 2001 W. B. Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland online in The Drunken boat, and posted it as well.

In the 3rd week of my stay at the Willapa Bay Artist Residency, the artist-residents were invited to “show & tell” what they’d been working on. My offering, a 15 minute reading was audio-taped by visual artist Jeannette Louie. You can listen to it on youtube via a link provided on the “Selected Works” page of this site.

Going back to 1999, I’ve had three poems published in Flint Hills Review, the literary magazine of Emporia State University ably shepherded by the poet/drummer/professor Kevin Rabas. Now I am pleased that they want to use a poem about an imagined airliner disaster called “Another Chance” for the magazine’s 21st issue.

My latest book, Coltrane’s God, took first place in the Poetry Book Category in the annual New Mexico Press Women Competition.  Quoth the judge: “The poetry in this book is moving and involves the reader emotionally.” As a first place winner in a state Press Women contest, it will automatically be submitted to this year’s National Federation of Press Women contest.

Editor Betsy Anderson notified me that Comstock Review will be publishing my poem, “In a Bar Near the School for the Deaf,” in its upcoming 30th anniversary issue. This is a poem that Tony Hoagland took an interest in, so I want to thank him for his input that spurred me to make this a publishable poem.

Amanda Sutton of Bookworks in Albuquerque kindly scheduled a reading for me at 3:00 PM on June 25, 2016.  Please see the Calendar page for details.

Jules Nyquist, Director of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Albuquerque, is host for my reading there on May 25th at 6:30 PM.  I hear it’s a very intimate setting, so it should be quite different from the sold-out soccer stadiums I’ve been playing to. (Check out the Calendar Page for details.)

My first reading back in Nuevo Mexico after my Pacific Northwest trip will be in Santa Fe at Teatro Paraguas on May 15th.  Longview, Washington-based poet Joseph Green kindly invited me to share the bill with him at 5:30 PM. (See Calendar page.)

I’m a little over a week into my month-long artist residency at Wallapa Bay, Washington. To say it is a nurturing place for quiet writing would be an understatement. My whole-hearted thanks is due to the Founding Director, Cyndy Hayward, whose vision for a generous yet unadulterated aesthetic experience is perfectly realized in this gorgeous environment. Also kudos to Operations Manager Jeff McMahon who shepherds us, and to our beyond-words chef Darice Grass.  I am also blessed to share this experience with five other dedicated artists whom I am honored to get to know.  They include filmmaker Jeannette Louie, novelist Carin Clevidence, sculptor Dan Price, journalist Camas Davis, and Deirdre Lockwood, who a defies single-word description as she writes poetry, fiction, journalism, and is an oceanographer.

Lucky me, I get to add another reading to my Northwest gig, this one with Clemens Starck at Grassroots Books in Corvallis. Mi amigo Charles Goodrich helped set this up for us. I look forward to seeing Charles again and meeting Clemens, whose books I have enjoyed. Grassroots Books is at 227 SW 2nd St. in Corvallis (see Calendar page).