This interview was released while I was traveling for the Pop Culture Association conference, but allow me to share it now. I’m so grateful to John Sibley Williams for his close reading of Hereverent and deeply thoughtful questions! There’s also a video of me reading a few of the poems at the bottom of the page.
It’s publication day! Hereverent is officially released into the world!
My first two launch events for Hereverent have been announced!
My publisher is throwing me a virtual launch on April 21 that will be part of the Favorite Poems series! Each poet will read a favorite poem or two from my new book in addition to work of their own. Join me with Fox Henry Frazier, Diane Glancy, Charles Jensen, Tania Runyan, Nicelle Davis, Jen Grace Stewart, Charnell Peters, and Jane Muschenetz!
Register in advance at this link.
And if you’re in San Diego, you can join me in person for a very special Poetry & Jazz book launch celebration on April 20 at 3 p.m. in Cooper Music Parlor at PLNU. I’ll read poems, my friend Brenda will do some jazz piano improvisation in response, and we’ll have dessert! I can’t wait!
In the mean time, you can still pre-order Hereverent! The book officially drops on April 3.
I finally made one of these graphics of where I’ll be at AWP. Will anyone use it to find me? I hope so. I’d love to hug some writers. And I’ll have books! And I’m absurdly excited about the Whale Road Review swag I got to hand out!
I’m honored to have my poem “Stone Duplex, 2022” published in the new issue of Rise Up Review alongside some of my favorite fellow poets.
I loved reading with Donna Spruijt-Metz and Leonora Simonovis at Verbatim Books this week! We celebrated Donna’s brand new book, General Release from the Beginning of the World, and read from our latest collections too. I also gave a sneak preview of Hereverent. What a joy to be surrounded by poets and poetry!
I’m honored to be featured on the 1-year anniversary episode of The Written Scene! If you’re not following Adam Greenfield’s fantastic podcast yet, check it out!
I usually enjoy interviews, but Glenda Bailey-Mershon took interviewing to another level with her incredibly thoughtful questions and generous affirmation of my poems. I think I’ll listen to this again some time when I need a morale boost! 
The pre-order link just went live today for my new book, Hereverent! You can reserve a copy now from Agape Editions ahead of the April release. Hooray!
I got my contributor copy of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, and this anthology is even more magical than I could’ve dreamed! Wow. Julie Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire have done such fantastic editorial work, and I’m so honored to have a poem included.
You can (and should!) get a copy of this anthology from Madville Publishing.