We released a special issue of Maiden Magazine today. It’s focused on my writing circle, the idea of community and what is possible in a residency. We’re nothing without us MM #3 is a love letter to them.
Join the residency: Maiden Magazine, #3
Together in the haunted house, Portland, OR, 2024
Several corridors later, West Coast, 2023-2024
St.John, Portland, OR, October 2023
horse majeure, San Francisco, November 2023
Honk if you loved Sylvia Plath as a young poet because you recognized her raw power and had not yet been taught by misogyny that “Confessional” poets were to be regarded as lesser poets because of their status as either or all: emotional, woman, self disclosing, etc. but then you come full circle to Plath ten years after your formal education has ended and you are a safe distance from unlearning instinct which seems more and more to do with control and less and less to do with skill or talent and your dear friend reads an excerpt to you from Rachel Zucker’s “what we talk about when we talk about the confessional and what we should be talking about” and your other friend says when she learned she actually loved Plath after years of avoiding her due to internalized misogyny she realized she was a “goddess, fully in her power” and you think hell yeah and your other friend reads “Morning Song” aloud and you feel the first line is etched into your being (still, or forever) and no one can fuck with that perfect, devastating poem.
“Love set you going like a fat gold watch.”
December 2023
From Vinyl Poetry & Prose, October 2019
Found poem on a series of signs advertising the only general store in a very remote area
Golden Eagle Inn, Jackson, WY
Glacier National Park, Montana
Paradise, Montana
Eden, Idaho
Upper Little Zig Zag River, Mt. Hood, Oregon
Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
Kintla Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana
Teton National Park, Wyoming
Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana
Miracle Mile, Mt. Hood, Oregon
Still here.
My poem “Cloudform” originally appeared in Timshel , Volume II
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Did you have a nice summer?
I’ll be taking notes.
Ok poet 🙄🥚
Hungry, Thirsty, Bored or Lonely
pull out on rt. 30
february 2023 snowstorm
arcade in lincoln city
ritual on the seattle <> bainbridge island ferry, after the longest day at AWP 2023
I miss Oakland, but less than I thought I would.
Glendale - Next to Foxy’s
Palm Springs - Didn’t swim - pool filled with drunk people, and therefore, piss
Joshua Tree - Heat adding an edge
Joshua Tree - Met a chatty hairstylist
July 2022
April 2021
Maiden Magazine, Issue No. 1 is now live.
