I’m delighted and honored to be awarded the 2023 Virgil Thomson Fellowship by the Society for American Music for “Analyzing Rosa Rio’s Accompaniments for Silent Film,” which is a part of my larger book project titled Race and Gender in …
A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin. 4/5 In preparation for this novel, I read the author’s previous epic work, Laurus. As some reviewers have already mentioned, this is a continuation of that novel, and the author’s storytelling style …
Writing About and With Music: An All-Genre Generative Workshop After reading a few poems about music, we’ll spend time listening to several different works and writing as we listen. INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D. TIME: Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 …
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I’m honored to have my poem “Driving Away From the Mountains” included in Mother of the Earth, a poetry anthology published by Woman Scream, an initiative of UN Women: Generation Equality, which works “in 12 critical areas of concern: poverty, …
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller.3/5 You know, from the very first pages, what the bargains are going to do, and who’s going to have to pay for them. So you spend the first 60% of the …
Without Children by Peggy O’Donnell Heffington. 4/5 This is a well-researched and interesting read about the many reasons people–particularly ciswomen and some transmen–do not have children–economic, physical, because of climate change, more. As a woman who is childfree by choice, …
I’m teaching two workshops for Writespace Houston in March on Zoom. Come join me! Writing About and With Music Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. CST on Zoom Ekphrasis (eck-FRAY-ses) is writing about a piece of art as a literary …
Kirkus is featuring Protectress in its Jan 1, 2023 issue! (On the same page as Stephen King!) Order your copy here.
Apparently I missed posting a number of NetGalley reviews written in 2021 for books being published in 2022. Apologies! The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng. 5/5 An absolutely brilliant collection of tiny poems, each on a world or person …
I’m delighted to have three poems–“She Calls It a Fairy Tree,” “Replenish,” and “Ghost Jam”–in Woodlands, a new poetry anthology featuring poems from 49 writers on forests, the woods, the mysteries of nature, and myth, edited by the superb d. …