Lammas
My poem “Lammas” will be out in the collection Milagros, published by the Patrick Heath Public Library in Boerne Texas. Lammas is celebrated on August 1 & was always a magical day when I was a kid out in the …
A handful of reviews, including Questlove and novel in verse
The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper. 5/5 This is a great novel, full of well-developed characters, a rich setting, and a compelling plot. Letitia is mourning the death of her brother. Undertaking what she thinks will be a simple errand, …
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Performances at the 2021 Darkwater Women in Music Festival
First of all, let me tell you have wonderful the Darkwater Womxn in Music Festival is. Hosted by UNC-Pembroke and led by the inimitable Sarah Busman, it is the most welcoming, most encouraging, most positive, most affirming conference I have …
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Recognizing the Truth of “Craft”
I’m delighted that my essay “Recognizing the Truth of ‘Craft’,” will be published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching. This is a very personal essay about my process and development as …
Book reviews: new SFF, poetry, and history
The Peculiarities by David Liss. 2/5 David Liss is known for his somewhat baroque novels usually dealing with finance or speculation or similar matters revolving around money, and this novel is no different. In an England where people are turning …
Creating the Poetry Chapbook
This summer, join me in Creating the Poetry Chapbook, where we’ll write, curate, and develop a collection of poems for publication! All poets working in all forms and genres are welcome. Creating the Poetry Chapbook INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard TIME: Mondays, …
Fit the action to the word
Composer Emily Doolittle has raised some interesting and important points about text-setting. Emily–an excellent, thoughtful composer and person–wrote: “Poets: how would you feel if a composer (thoughtfully) cut out a few words from your poem when setting it to music? …
Sense of Self, a new opera
On 27 June 2021, Opera Elect will premiere Sense of Self, a 10-minute opera for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and piano by Lisa Neher and me. The premiere is part of a three-work program also including composer Jessi Harvey’s The Anthropocene Vignettes, …
Reviews: gorgeous poetry, Asian-inspired fantasy, and more
Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night by Morgan Parker. 2/5 This did not do much for me. There were excellent passages but as a whole it felt frenetic and often jumbled, a very free stream-of-consciousness output but one …
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Coming 5 June 2021: Renew Your Love for Writing: All-Genre Generative Workshop
Join me for this workshop offered by Writespace! You can be located anywhere in the world for this, and writers of all genres and levels of experience are welcome. You can become a member here, or register as a non-member. …
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