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Spring 2026
Greetings, friends.
First, let’s just honor what a difficult time it is– a furious time– violent, enraging, saddening. We need to hold each other in every way we can. I’m doing some organizing for a group to come to the next N...
Hi dear West Coast Friends—
Many of you know that against this tide of losing our wider arts infrastructure, I’ve been working on a play, housed at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, about the incredible American photographer Dorothea Lange...
Friends,
I hope you’re keeping well as the summer wanes. I felt so grateful, in this charged world, to find time these past months to write new poems, translations, and work on a new play coming into the world this fall. Last West: Roadson...
Dear Friends,
I’m coming to the end of my year as Poet Laureate of El Cerrito. About sixteen events and many poetry classes later, I’m inspired, uplifted, hungry for more– and just maybe ready for a tiny break :)
And: it's been an amazi...
Spring is coming! Spring is coming(soon)! So here is my little roundup of all things Spring.
Upcoming Class:
Online, Poetry in the Garden, Hosted by the Edible Schoolyard Project, March 13th, 3-5 pm PST.
This workshop is geared toward g...
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Poet / food activist/ parent/ partner -- new book Leaning Toward Light out from Storey Press, new podcast, Intimate Addresses, out from Getty
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