April marked the beginning of irrigation season around these parts. This member of the family popped up next in the acéquia that goes by our house. Complete with pickup truck. Ah, NM.
Happy April! Here’s a recording from a reading on April 5, 2023 at the Bayard Public Library here in New Mexico. Lots of page turning noise, but once past that…
Thanks to T.A. Niles for providing these to all those who read there in celebration of National Poetry Month.
This includes other projects and videos I’ve made. Note: I am an unashamed novice at videos, but (it turns out) they are really fun to make.
Here’s the recording of the Nov.15, 2020 reading for Hidden Timbers Press. Thanks to Christi Craig of the Press, and to Gail Hoskings (also a featured poet reading for the Small Press Series) who introduced me to the series. I like to read my pieces from The Dream of Falling and Woman and Horse as well as other work, some not yet published. I also talked a little about some of the poems. Check it out!
Check out the recording Grassroots Books made of my Zoom reading that they hosted 7/21/2020. Celebrating The Dream of Falling!
Here’s an animation of Soul Mates, in The Dream of Falling:
Or something silly with no words at all from that featureless in-breath of the early pandemic:
Ah, Shotpouch Creek, Oregon Coast Range. This is the first video I made while a resident at the Spring Creek Project’s cabin. My avowed goals for the residency to learn about stop-motion and maybe write a poem. So, there’s a trillium (sort of) and then the poem, Cedar-hearted Creek, published in Woman and Horse.
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