Another semester has wrapped up, and summer is starting! I've got a few exciting updates to share: - My chapbook of fairy tale poems, Coronations, will be published by Ghost City Press this July. I'll share more details soon. I've been an admirer of GCP's Summer Microchap Series for years, so I'm thrilled about this. - An amazing collection called Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry is coming out soon, and I've got a poem in it! You can learn more about th

So much is happening! - Spuyten Duyvil is going to be publishing my poetry collection Shelter in Place later this year. I'm over the moon! I'll post more details as I have them! - On March 2, I'll be leading a workshop on poetry comics as part of Death Rattle Writers Festival's "Four Words" event. It's somewhat inspired by my dissertation! Here's the description: Inner Landscapes: Poetry Comics, Metaphor, and Visual Emotion In our day-to-day lives, we use metaphor to describe

I'm truly thrilled to share that I'll be starting an MFA in Poetry through New England College this July! This is a low-residency program, so I'll be visiting New Hampshire for about three weeks during the year and doing the rest remotely. Acceptance to this program has been a long-time dream, so I'm walking on air. I'll be sure to post reflections on the first residency. In the meantime, the school year is almost over (congrats to all the grads!) and I'm gearing up to start

This past weekend, I delivered a workshop on short comics and poetry comics as part of the "Crash of Rhinos" lineup in Ketchum, Idaho. It was super fun making comics with folks, some of whom had never tried them before! Photo courtesy of Silver Creek Writers' Residency. Thanks for a great weekend, Ketchum! #comics #poetrycomics #teaching #writing #art

Last week, I had the honor of participating in an installment of the Couch Surfer Series, which pairs musicians, writers, and a moderator for two hours at Radio Boise. The series is filmed before a live audience in a cozy, intimate setting that perfectly suits the mood of each event. Sharing the space with We Are Apes and moderator Frankie Barnhill was an absolute delight. We talked love, death, faith, disillusionment, vulnerability, courage, and so much more. It was somethin

Today my first copies of Parallel arrived in the mail. It was a day I'd been anticipating for a long time. Since the manuscript was accepted in March, yes, but in a way, much longer than that. This is the work I co-wrote with my 15-year-old self via journal entries and recorded dreams, the culmination of a lot of thinking and feeling. I'm glad it arrived on Halloween. A spooky, unusual day. The copies are handmade and hand-numbered. ANC values the book as a material object, a

Yesterday, I finished typing "Current: An Interactive Poetry Comic" at the Bown Crossing Library. It felt great to see this project come to fruition! It should be available in its entirety on the Library's site some time this fall. Here was my approach to the project (though I ended up letting people choose the verb for the first poem, too): "Words are adventures that take us somewhere, especially when used to create art. Stories, poems, and fables teach us, transport us, and