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With renowned artist Linda Ekstrom, in front of her piece, "Your One True Home." I was invited by Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin to write a poem about one of the pieces in the Textual Integration show at the Rubenstein Chan contemporary art gallery in Carpenteria, and present it at an evening event at the gallery. Wow! A fantastic show, in which each piece incorporated text in some way, and I had to choose one for my subject. An ekphrastic poem is one written ab

What's not to love? All the poems in this anthology, A Feast For Santa Barbara: Poets Celebrate Food and Drink, edited by SB Poet Laureate George Yatchisin (Gunpowder Press, 2026) explore the edible aspects of Santa Barbara County, with sections like "market," "ritual," "ingredients," and "labor," the last of which is where my poem, "Harvesting History," appears. "Harvesting History" was inspired by a line in a Santa Barbara News-Press article I came across while researching

Heron Tree published two erasure poems I sent in response to their prompt of using the number 12 in some way for the twelfth issue, in found poetry using pre-1929 sources. What a fun prompt! They included my explanation of how I created these poems. I really enjoyed the process of finding these poems within the text of Louisa May Alcott's novel, Eight Cousins . A collage poem also came out of this process, which I hope to have out in the future. Click here for the overview p

I have a poem in Abandoned Mine, the poetry journal for everyone.

The Raven's Perch (I added an apostrophe, I can't help it) kindly chose three of my poems for their award-winning online literary and...

Former Santa Barbara poet laureate David Starkey invited me on his SBTV show, The Creative Community , and we had a great conversation...

Did you know Scientific American magazine has a poetry column? They do, and my poem, "Rocket Launch Laconic" is featured in the...