GROUND WORK: POEMS 2020-2025, Michael Daley, Ravenna Press 2025 It’s my pleasure today to share a poem from Michael Daley’s newest book, Ground Work. My full review appears in the current print edition of Rain Taxi, and you can learn more about Michael by visiting his page at Empty Bowl, or Poets & Writers. I […]
BOATS FOR WOMEN, Sandra Yannone, Salmon Poetry, 2019. If you don’t know Sandra Yannone, I am here to tell you, you really should. In addition to being Poet Laureate of her hometown, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, consider this impressive list of activities from her website: She is co-founder and host of Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, an […]
My Heart Is Not Asleep, Thomas A. Thomas, MoonPath Press 2024. William Wordsworth famously described poetry as “strong emotion…recollected in tranquility,” and that is how I want to think about—or think with and through—this collection of poems by Thomas A. Thomas, a photographer and an extraordinary poet, now the Assistant Managing Editor at MoonPath Press. […]
A quick heads’ up for anyone living near Pelican Bay Books & Coffeehouse in Anacortes, Washington. I’m really excited (and honored) to have been invited to read for the Madrona Reading Series, no less alongside the great Michael Daley. Saturday, Feb. 28, 6 p.m. Having a little difficulty pasting in the poster — I seem […]