2022 Ruth Lilly Prize

Please click HERE for details

This is an incredible honor to win this award!

And to win it alongside so many brilliant poets!

SONIC DIVINATIONS for 4 Queens

Special guest CAConrad for one-hour of

Creative Writing & Divinatory Poetics

SUNDAY, September 25th

11 am Boston time

10 am Chicago time

9 am Denver time

$10 PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

For the hour, I have designed a unique SONIC DIVINATION in which we look at how we can tune into various frequencies to enhance our writing. Our human bodies are occult tools VIBRATING with 70% water, absorbing sound; let's use it to WRITE!

photo of me by Augusto Cascales

Saturday, September 10th in Hudson, New York

I'm performing at Basilica Hudson and Pathway to Paris’ BASILICA GREEN Benefit Concert in Hudson, NY on 9/10. An evening of collective performance and conversation in the spirit of arts x eco action, all in a solar-powered, reclaimed industrial factory on the Hudson River. 

Tickets on sale now at THIS LINK

GIGANTIC SYCAMORE Equinox Poetry Reading

Please click HERE for details about the tree

Dara Barrois/Dixon told me about the tree years ago

I asked her how to find it

She said, "OH just drive to Sunderland on Main street, YOU CAN'T MISS IT!"

CELEBRATE Autumnal Equinox with a poem at The Giant Tree

A little video I made some years ago

Sunday, September 18th at 1pm

Sunderland, Massachusetts

PLEASE PARK at the town library: 20 School St.

PLEASE BRING 1 poem to read at the sycamore 

(either by yourself or another poet)

MANATEE / HUMANITY by Anne Waldman

SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2022

6pm Boston time

5pm Chicago time

4pm Denver time

Over 2 dozen poets reading from 

Anne Waldman's brilliant, watershed text

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Event is FREE, but everyone is encouraged to

please donate to SAVE THE MANATEE

2022 PEN Josephine Miles Awards for Poetry

I am very happy about AMANDA PARADISE winning this award!

Please CLICK HERE for details

(their website will be updated soon)