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For anyone who hasn't yet heard, I'm phasing out this website and emails. If you'd like to keep up with my writing and other nonsense, you can find my newsletter, small magic, here. 

This month's issue includes my secret to perfect hot chocolate and part 2 of my interview with science writer/poet/essayist/author Sabrina Imbler, best known to many for being the genius behind the New York Times headline "When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That's a Moray." 

(Absolute. Legend.)

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Two Pink Poems in Doubleback Review

“Pink Light” and “Pink Light (2021)” look like poems about romance, and they are, in a way. But they’re also—and possibly more deeply—about self-love. About valuing your own heart enough to protect it. 

Both poems have just been republished in Doubleback Review. 

A Shift

This week at The Last Word on Nothing: a change in my internal weather. 

You can read the post here.

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This week at The Last Word on Nothing, I wrote about depression, delight, and cutting myself a break.

You can read my piece here.

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How can we make art when we feel exhausted, sad, and overwhelmed? (The short answer: Sometimes we don’t.) I’m back on the Down to Art podcast this week, talking with my friend Kristy Gordon about how we manage our creative, emotional, and physical energy. 

You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts, or click here. 

Me and the ocean, on the radio

 

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Here's something wonderful: this weekend I'll be on public radio's Living on Earth, interviewing the ocean. (Yes, the ocean.)

Listen online or find your local station and air times here. 

New Work in A Velvet Giant

 

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“Bat Facts” is one of the cleverest, kookiest, me-est things I’ve ever written, and it’s out now in A Velvet Giant. 

You can read the full piece and/or listen as I read it to you here. 

Another One

 

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One of my older birds-and-heartbreak poems is up now at The Last Word on Nothing. 

You can read it here.

One New Poem in SPROUT

 

I am so pleased to share that my birds-and-trauma poem "Window: White Pine" is out now in Issue 2: Edge of SPROUT, a self-described eco-urban poetry journal. This poem was previously featured in Scottish artist Clare Archibald's 2021 forest installation "Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness."

You can read the poem here.

The Vampire Returns

 

My disabled vampire poem—probably one of my favorite poems I've ever written—is out now in the beautiful, broody DEAD OF WINTER II anthology from Milk and Cake Press. Get your copy here. 

One Poem at LWON

 

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My poem "Wildfire, Hundred Acre Wood" is up today at The Last Word on Nothing. You can read it here. 

A Dreamy Book Review

 

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This month in Luna Luna magazine, I reviewed Hannah Emerson's first full-length poetry collection and talked to editor Chris Martin about an exciting new series of books by neurodivergent and disabled poets. You can read my review here.

A Carrie Fisher Poem

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I am so, so, so pleased to share that my poem "i tell the ghost of carrie fisher the world is ending" is out today in Qu. You can read it here, or click here to buy a paperback copy.

One New Interview

 

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I interviewed the ocean. It...did not go the way I expected.

You can read our conversation today at The Last Word on Nothing.

One Salty New Death Poem

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2019: I read a surreal article about a new eco-friendly method of human body disposal. For reasons I still don’t understand, I immediately wonder what poet/witch/oracle Brent Reichenberger would make of it. I start taking notes.

2022: My poem “Aquamation (for and after Brent Reichenberger)” is out in Hecate magazine's body-horror collection FRANKENZINE. You can read it here.

p.s. Sorry Brent

Another Kitchen Fire, Or The Same One, Again

Just in time for the holidays, my Christmas/fire poem is out in Day Eight's beautiful anthology THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS. (I have a bad habit of starting fires on holidays—probably because that's when I'm most likely to be in the kitchen.)

Read the poem here, and get your copy of THE GREAT WORLD OF DAYS here.

The Squid Returns

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My old squid poem "Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates" is up today at The Last Word on Nothing. Don't miss the audio, with wonderful music and sound design by Grant Balfour. You can read and listen here. 

A podcast appearance

 

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I'm on the very first episode of the Down to Art podcast, talking with my friend Kristy Gordon about the creative process, making room for the muse, and my new solution for self-loathing. You can listen here. 

Another New-Old Poem at LWON

 

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Haibun is one of my favorite ways to tell a story. The dense, vivid sensory details, the immersion in environment, the care paid to fine detail, & then that surprise & deepening at the end—so good. 

My haibun “Parking Lot, Deception Pass,” originally published in Moonchild Magazine, is up today at The Last Word On Nothing. You can read it here. 

A New-Old Poem at LWON

 

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A new version of my old poem "The Death of the Lobster" is up today at The Last Word on Nothing. 

You can read it here.