Looking for a one-day poetry class with lots of time for actually writing? Sign up for my WritespaceHouston workshop Writing Short: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand! This generative workshop meets on Saturday, November 12 from 9:30 a.m. – …
This November and December, I’ll be teaching a weekly class for Writespace Houston on creating a chapbook! Chapbooks are short collections of poems, often focused around a theme. You can be new to writing poetry or an experienced writer–all are …
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My poem “Canine Eclogue” is now up at Texas Poetry Assignments! This is part of a series of poems I’m working on in dialogue–however slight–with Virgil’s Eclogues: Texas Poetry Assignments works to help end hunger in Texas through Feeding …
In 2020, I saw a call from the International Double Reed Society for new works for oboe and bassoon. A former bassoonist, I thought it would be nice to help create a work for oboe and bassoon and voice. I …
The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua. 4/5 This is a bit odd. Based on the writing style, descriptions, and settings, I initially thought that this book was set in the 1950s, not the late 1990s. It’s a book about identity, …
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My poem “Winter Term,” about teaching at Westminster Choir College, is up now at Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry)!
My poem “a fragment harbor of time” is up now at Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry), a wonderful new site of short poetry. This is one of the poems that came out of my mom’s death, almost 4 years ago now…. …
I’m delighted to get back to teaching for Writespace Houston, a non-profit writing center that offers outstanding courses and workshops on all kinds of writing. There are scholarships available for every course! All of my courses and workshops take place …
This Friday, August 19, I’ll be speaking as part of a roundtable discussion on/with scholars who have become part of and/or continue to access the history profession from the “outside,” broadly construed. The session is hosted by the Coordinating Committee …
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Today, Sage Cigarettes published my poem “Witchcraft for Cellists.” Here’s a little note about it. When I was 10, I began playing the cello in a public school music program. I had private lessons, then attended the University of North …