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Happy to be featured on It's Lit to spotlight this wonderful anthology. Listen! This special episode of It’s Lit features the literatur...
Happy to be featured on It's Lit to spotlight this wonderful anthology. Listen! This special episode of It’s Lit features the literatur...
Please watch and share this beautiful video from Mass Poetry. ❤️ “In This Place (An American Lyric)” features a stirring choral recitation o...
Here's a picture Ella snapped of me yesterday. Decided to put on a dress as a change from jeans. In Mississippi, it was 73 degrees and o...
Oh blogger, why can't I quit you? There's no good reason why I should be back here again, but, well, sheltering in place brings out ...
Happy 2020! For more than 10 years I have LOVED this space. It has been a place of growth and healing. When I think about all the poems disc...
Um, hello? Is this thing on? I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to Oxford, Mississippi for the academic ye...
Look y'all, tour dates! My first book tour. I'm thrilled to be able to support my third book Rewilding . Did I mention my poem, Hoo...
OMG! OMG! OMG! Here I am in The New York Times Magazine next to John Legend! Well, not me so much as my poem, " Hoodie, " which wa...
Last week, my poem, " Kettling " was featured on U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown! I have known Tracy ...
January. The coldest month of the year. Fortunately, there's no snow on the ground yet in my neck of the woods. So I am part of the P...
OMG, is it time for a Poetry Action Plan? Why, yes. Yes it is! What, you may ask, is a Poetry Action Plan, or PAP? It is a road map for how...
I’m so excited that Rewilding , my third collection with CavanKerry Press, has been in the world for almost two months and so far, the early...
Yesterday, I met up with poet-friend for lunch. After our long, lingering afternoon over pasta and good bread, he reminded me how lucky we a...
Today after a long hiatus, I submitted poems at a Submittathon. MP Carver set us up for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. She describes the group-sending of poe...
This is happening! There is so much happening right now I can barely keep up. During December, I will update the blog regularly; although, a...
It's here! Rewilding is here and in print. The release date is November 6, but it is a real thing. I am thrilled. CavanKerry did a nice ...
Hello, beautiful! My third collection, Rewilding, is now available for presale! Order it early and have it arrive at your door in November. ...
I am 75% packed for the AWP Conference in Tampa next week. Why am I packed so early? It looks like it will be 80 degrees, and I need shoes!...
I posted this pic a few weeks ago on Instagram and Twitter and it went viral (I own the photo), which is very cool. Nothing I do goes viral....
Backstage on Inauguration Day! We’re just moments away from the inauguration of @SalemStatePres John Keenan. pic.twitter.com/yZtwK9VEVQ — S...