Upcoming Events
In the works!
Recent Events
August 16-18, 2024, Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Instructor, Intro to Form and Meter, Frost Farm, Derry, N.H.
July 27, 2024 (7 p.m.), Russell Pond Campground, Women Poets of the White Mountains (see description below)
March 15, 2024 (5:30 p.m.), The Bookery, Outer Space: 100 Poems panel and reading with Liz Ahl, Robert W. Crawford, Alfred Nicol, and a special guest appearance by Rick Broussard, writer, raconteur, and former executive editor of New Hampshire Magazine, Manchester, N.H.
August 18-20, 2023, Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Instructor, Take Time to Pretend - Dramatic Monologues, Frost Farm, Derry, N.H.
July 28, 2023, Interview with Shelby Traynor of The Science Show, ABC Radio National, on poetry, space, and Outer Space: 100 Poems
June 10, 2023, Interview with The Liuniverse: Talking with Dr. Charles Liu, Allen Liu, and Yun Wang, cosmologist and poet about the poetry of the stars!
May 24, 2023, 8 p.m., Plough Quarterly Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award ceremony
February 16, 2023, 7 p.m., See the recording of this special online reading of Outer Space: 100 Poems hosted by Carmine Street Metrics. Featuring an all-star lineup! Ned Balbo, John Curl, John Foy, Dr. Alice Gorman, A.M. Juster, Donna Kane, Janet Kenny, Leslie Monsour, Victoria Moul, Jay Ruzesky, Dr. Yun Wang, and Anton Yakovlev.
Workshops
I have taught Introduction to Poetry and Advanced Poetry Writing at various colleges in the area, including Chester College, New Hampshire Institute of Art, and Northern Essex Community College.
In addition, I've taught three-day workshops, Introduction to Rhyme, Introduction to Meter and Rhyme, and Take Time to Pretend: Dramatic Monologues, at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference. I’ve also given talks on The Art of the Dramatic Monologue for the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and Poetry for Children for UMass Lowell.
I am also available to give a talk on women poets of the White Mountains. New England women poets have been visiting, living in, and writing about the White Mountains for almost two hundred years, both being influenced by and influencing the landscape. I examine poems by Lydia Sigourney, Edna Dean Proctor, Lucy Larcom, Jane Kenyon, and others.
I received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire in 2006, the first MFA awarded by that institution.
If you're interested in my holding a reading or workshop, please contact me