Readings & Events
2012 readings: none scheduled yet; please check back later!
Past Events:
October 19, 2011. Facilitated gathering of the RASP (Redmond Association of Spoken Word) Poetry and Prose Circle.
August 11, 2011: Featured reader, along with Megan Snyder-Camp Lehman and Payam Fotouhiyeh, at It's About Time Writers Reading Series at the Ballard Branch of Seattle Public Library.
May 21, 2011: read at Burning Word poetry festival in Leavenworth, Wash.
Read with Michael Schein on March 12, 2011, at PoetsWest reading, Green Lake branch of Seattle Public Library.
Winter 2011: Taught "Lightning Rods for America's Poetic Impulse: The Most Recent Poet Laureates and Their Poems" through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of Washington.
On Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, 2:00 PM, I read at the downtown branch of the Seattle Public Library with other 2010 Jack Straw Writers.
On Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010, 6:30 PM, I was the featured reader at the Duvall Poetry Reading, held at the Grange Cafe.
On Thursday, Sept. 16th, 2010, I read with Jack Straw Writers Katherine Grace Bond and Martha Clarkson at the Seattle Art Museum in response to SAM Next: Cris Brodahl exhibit.
On Friday Sept. 24, 2010, 7:00 PM, read at Redmond Association of Spoken Word (RASP).
On Thursday, Sept 2, I read with other Washington state poets who have poems in the
anthology New Poets of the American West
at Elliott Bay Book Company.
Read with other Floating Bridge Review 3 contributors at Jack Straw Studios on July 9, 2010.
Read at the Artsmith Salon Series at Doe Bay Resort Cafe on June 7, 2010.
Read with Jack Straw writers Martha Clarkson, Esther Altshul Helfgott, and Michael Dylan Welch at the Jack Straw Studios in Seattle on May 14, 2010.
Read with fellow Bennington alums Nicole Hardy and Jeremy Voigt at Village Books in the Fairhaven District of Bellingham, Wash. on April 25, 2010.
Read with poet Dennis Caswell at SoulFood Books in Redmond on November 19, 2009.
“So a Magician, a Blonde, and a Donkey Walk Into a Bar...”
with Nicole Hardy and Sally Ashton at Richard Hugo House
on October 1, 2009.
Reading with other Floating Bridge Review Volume 2 contributors on Thursday, June 24, and Nov. 4, 2009, at Jack Straw Studios in Seattle.
Crab Creek Review Spring/Summer 2008 issue reading on Wednesday, October 22, 7 PM, at Richard Hugo House.
Featured reader on Monday, September 22, 6:30 PM, at 4th Monday Poetry, P&G Speakeasy Cafe in Duvall (15614 Main Street).
June 25, 2008, 7 PM, at Jack Straw Productions: Read with other Pontoon 10 poets.
June 24, 2008, 7 PM, at Richard Hugo House: Read with Tim Kelly, Molly Tenenbaum, Nancy Pagh, Cody Walker, and Allen Braden in a celebration of the inaugural issue of Floating Bridge Review.
March 16, 2008: Celebrated the publication of my chapbook Magic Word with a reading at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
December 13, 2008: Taught a poetry workshop at the Olympia Timberland Library.
June 26, 2007: Participated in the Floating Bridge Press reading at Richard Hugo House. My manuscript Magic Word was a finalist in the 2007 chapbook competition. I read with chapbook winner Holly J. Hughes.
April 21st, 2007: Participated in a day exploring the theme of “The Big Bang: The Cosmology of Poetry, Spirituality, and Science” at the 2007 Seattle Poetry Festival.
January 14th, 2007: Read at the C & P Coffee Company with poet Nicole Hardy, who has published a fabulous book of sonnets, Mud Flap Girl’s XX Guide to Facial Profiling.
Listen Online:
My poem “Kitchen” as well as poems by Kathleen Flenniken and John W. Marshall were featured on the “Poems About Mothers” segment of KUOW’s “The Beat” on May 7th, 2007. You can go to the archives to listen.
Some of my poems were featured on KUOW Public Radio’s “The Beat” on December 12, 2005; you can go to the archives to listen to the poems (the segment starts 23 minutes into the audio file), as well as commentary by KUOW literary programming producer Elizabeth Austen.