Press

Presenter / Speaker

• MASH: Beer-&-Poem Pairings (YouTube playlist)
• BARK & BARD: Reading Poems to Dogs (YouTube playlist)
• PO-JOE: Coffee-&-Poem Pairings (YouTube playlist)
• DISTILL: Spirit-&-Poem Pairings (YouTube playlist)
• “Love and Heartbreak” oral story (USA Today‘s Storytellers Project, 2/20/19)
• “Magical Thinking” oral story (The Bard’s Confession, 7/9/19)
• “The Sounds of Healing” oral story (at 59:15) (The Bard’s Confession, 2/3/20)
• “How a Poem Happens” presentation (Pecha Kucha, 10/15/15)
• “The Big Funny” comedy bit for Kristina Hall’s “Stand Up! The Workshop” (3/2/14)
• Article about my poem-and-booze pairings (Longmont Times-Call, 4/25/16)
• Article about “What Unfolds” exhibit, with photo of my piece (Longmont Times-Call, 3/16/17)
• “Women, Art, and Teaching Communities” interview with Melissa A. Rosati (31 Voices March radio show, 3/13/12)

Writer

• “How Is This Poem Like…a Beer? a Dog? a Spirit?” (Trish Hopkinson‘s blog, 2/9/20) 
• “A Poem Is Not a Podium: Writing the Political” (Trish Hopkinson‘s blog, 12/29/19)
• “From What to How: Valuing the Reader’s Experience in Our Poems” (Trish Hopkinson‘s blog, 10/20/19)
• Review of Sage Cohen‘s The Productive Writer (Rain Taxi Review of Books, Spring 2012)
• Review of Teresa Leo’s The Halo Rule (Rain Taxi Review of Books, Summer 2008)
• Review of Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s Invisible Sister (Rain Taxi Review of Books, Summer 2005)
• “Smart Conditioning for Weekend Warriors” (Natural Awakenings, June 2008)

Poet

• “Theory of Evolution,” “Dorothy Gale: The Post-Oz Years,” “Dance,” “Hold Fast” (Colorado Poets Center)
• “Blue Sings a New Tune,” (Full Bleed, “Materials” issue, Issue 6, 2023)
• “His/Hers” and “Elegy for Chuck Yeager” (The Inflectionist Review, Issue 16, July 2023)
• “Nancy Drew the Line 14 Times, Then Flipped,” “The Proverbial Actions Speak,” “Elegy for the Mouse Trap Game,”  “Election Night 2020, Ending with a Text from the Friend Who’s the Emergency Contact on My Medical Forms,” “Dylan Thomas Loses His Sh*t, Borrowing Post-Postmodernist Epithets from Richard Marx’s Twitter Feed” (L=Y=R=A, Issue 1, 2023)
• “Sinew” (Bending Genres, Issue 31, February 14, 2023)
• “Midlife” (Gyroscope Review, Fall Crone Power Issue 2023, Issue 23–4), p. 17 [PDF p. 18]
• “For the Deflated in December” (Eclectica, October/November 2023)
• National Poetry Month interview with Esther Hayes, April 2023, Loveland Public Library
• “The Way Back” / “N – Nitrogen 7” / “Face” (YouTube video, Boulder Valley Media Alliance’s public-access TV channel 22, November 4, 2009)
• “Dorothy Gale: The Post-Oz Years” (Laurie Boris‘s blog, 11/30/10)
• “H – Hydrogen 1” (DIAGRAM 9.6)
• “Two Takes After Russell Edson” (Boulder Weekly, 10/15/15)
• “To a Mother in Washington Market Park” (Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 68, 2002)
• “The Promenade” (Gallery & Studio Arts Journal)
• “Gouache” poem response to Sally Elliott‘s painting “Upstream Mussels,” in “Write, I See” exhibit co-presented by Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Arts Student League of Denver (Jennifer Heath’s Water, Water Everywhere blog, October 24, 2015)
• Poems published in Many Mountains Moving, Paterson Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Alimentum, Rock & Sling, Light, Matter, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, La Petite Zine, Mountain Gazette, Arts Perspective, Writers Notes Magazine, Boulder Poetry Map, and the anthologies Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, di-vêrsé-city, An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind: Poets On 9/11, Off the Cuffs: Poetry By and About the Police, Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug: Ten Years of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry, You Can Hear the Ocean: An Anthology of Classic and Current Poetry, The Doll Collection