Events – Past and Upcoming
- 3-4 Oct. 2025: Workshop presenter at the 2025 Oregon Poetry Association Conference in Newport, OR. Workshop description: Ten Rules for a Future – Attendees are invited to an inclusive space where we, collectively, will explore the concept of nostalgia for a future not yet realized. This workshop will begin with a walk through Corita Kent’s Ten Rules as adopted by the Immaculate Heart College Art Department and a discussion of their application to our own practice and approach to writing, art, and other creative pursuits. Attendees will then follow a series of generational prompts to lead poets towards a frame of thinking where they may craft a new poem or poems that center on specific images or scenes of a hope, on peace, on self-actualization, and on resistance against all that might seek to undermine such a future; consider, for example, such a resistance to be grounded in community, socially and environmentally conscious, and built upon collective movement towards positive change.
- Monthly writing workshop leader in Condon, OR: Dec. 2024 – July 2025 (currently on pause)
Selected Poems
- “On Fatherhood – Year One” in wildscape. literary journal (vol. 1)
- “Johnson’s Hummingbird Haven” in Train River Poetry Anthology (vol. 7)
- “An Ode to Arthur Dent’s Confusion”, “Jerky”, “Softball in Rampart, AK”, and “The speech Nixon would have given if Apollo 11 had failed on July 19, 1969” in Train River Poetry Anthology (vol. 5)
- “Two Elderly Men Sneak out of Nursing Home to attend Heavy Metal Festival”, “These Blank Walls”, “Camping on the Yukon with a Veteran Hotshot Crew”, “Origami Hands”, “A funeral came by the coffee shop”, and “Apple Tree” in Train River Poetry Anthology (vol. 4)
- “Store in a Cool, Dry Place” and “Lunch Break in Boise” in Train River Poetry Anthology (vol. 3)
- “What Philadelphia Saw at George Washington’s Funeral Procession” in Instapoet
- “When I Am Dead” in Silver Linings Anthology (vol. 1)
- “The Hills Above the McKenzie”, “Esalen Hot Springs”, “The Yukon Appears Before Me”, and “Front Seat Stains” in Furious Lit Anthology (vol. 1)
- “Drowned” in The Northwest Passage (Spring 2019)
- “Camping on the Yukon with a Veteran Hotshot Crew” in The Northwest Passage (Fall 2019)
Selected Essays
- “Trial by Fire” in Adventures NW Magazine (Autumn 2021)