Watch my FREE mini writing workshop talk on "Investigative Poetry" on the Main Street Rag Publishing YouTube site.

Forthcoming! My new hybrid memoir Match Heads: My Conversations with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber will be published by Southern Illinois University Press, Summer 2027.

 New poems were recently published in The Twin Bill Baseball Lit (audio poem on podcast), Colossus Current, ephemeras literary magazine, Orenaug Poetry Journal, Antae, Failed Haiku, Ropes Literary Journal, Audacious Women Anthology, Coop Zine, Amethyst Review, The Other Journal, Christian Feminism Today, T'art online, underscore_magazine, little somethings press, The Soliloquist Journal, and many others.

Poets & Patrons inteviews me about poetry and publishing in its  Member Spotlight.

Upcoming readings & events:

~ Sunday Salon Chicago, Sunday, May 24, 2026, 7 pm. Roscoe Books

~ Quimby's Bookstore co-hosts an offsite reading, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, 7 pm at Dimo's Pizza in Logan Square. I'll be featured along with Kat the Poet and Michael Messinger.

~ Palatine Library Second Saturday Poetry Workshop. Saturday, February 13, 2027, 9 am-Noon. I'm leading a Glosa poetry form workshop & shared discussion. Registration necessary.

~ AWP Chicago 2027, I'll be part of a bookfair staged event and reading "How the Earth Remembers: Poetry, Memory and the Earth." Date and time to follow. March 17-20, 2027. 

~ Highland Park Poetry monthly reading series. Featuring my new hybrid memoir "Match Heads: My Conversations with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber." Saturday, October 9, 2027. 4 pm. Location TBD.

2025 poetry year-in-review:

~  Featured readings at Mercy Street Reading Series, Dandelion Books, Oak Park, and Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Ill. 

~ Won poetry awards from Poets & Patrons, Illinois State Poetry Society, and Highland Park Poetry.

~ Nearly 40 poems published in literary magazines and anthologies during 2025, and forthcoming as of the New Year in 2026.  Thank you to all the publishers who support my work, here in the U.S. and abroad!