3/3/24 3/3/24

An Acre of Darkness

I am pleased to announce the publication of my essay, “An Acre of Darkness,” which is about light pollution, living in the country,

3/1/21 3/1/21

Learning my Writing Process

I was a poet for the first ten years of my writing life. Then I started writing poems that, according to my writing group friend, made better stories than poems. And she was right.

7/8/19 7/8/19

Writing Memoir While Young

I was in a room full of writers talking casually about getting published.

“It’s brutal!” said one. “I used to work as an agent’s assistant in New York. I should know!”

3/29/19 3/29/19

How Intersectionality Made Me a Better Poet

When I was in graduate school I took a class on poetry and politics. We read a lot of Russian and Polish poets. I loved reading Akhmatova and Milo sz , but the class did not help me understand how I could write political poetry.