Last night I was one of the featured poets at Wednesday Night Poetry alongside Carolyn Forché, Ken Hada, and Connie Post! I was so thrilled to get to read from my brand new chapbook, 28,065 Nights, which was just released last week from River Glass Books.
Thanks so much to Kai Coggin for expanding this community and being such an incredible host!
My new chapbook, 28,065 Nights, is now available for pre-order from River Glass Books!
This is a collection of prose poems that explore storytelling, grief, and love. I wrote these poems to my Granny after her death, so this book is extra dear to me.
I’m so grateful to Kimberly Dawn and Marley Stuart for making this beautiful chapbook of my poems!
Thank you to the editors of Memoir Mixtapes for re-printing my poem “Ojo Caliente,” which was first published in the American Journal of Nursing. I love that they include a playlist of the connected songs for each piece, so definitely listen along as you read the whole issue!
A year ago today, I spontaneously started a series of little video reviews and called it Poetry Rev. Poemeleon was kind enough to feature my YouTube channel on their site this week!
Please click the image above to see the rest of this short feature, and please do follow me on YouTube for more Poetry Rev videos coming soon (as soon as I recover from pneumonia!).
Happy National Poetry Month, poetry fools! 🥳
My poem “We Brought You to San Diego” was published in an anthology of San Diego poets called Bards Against Hunger. Proceeds go to a local food bank. I’m grateful to editor Chris Vannoy for including me!
I also got to participate in a release party reading at Verbatim Books on March 2. Thanks to Ellen Huang for the photo!
Since people were responding to my poem “Don’t Repeat This” in the latest issue of Thimble, the editors asked if they could publish more of my work in their newsletter. Here are “Jesus Was Not a Monkey” and “No One Beats Jesus at Chess” from Thimbletter No. 8, February 2020.
after a picket sign
I’m so happy for these poems to be published alongside work by Shawnte Orion, who is awesome and also went to my high school. You can subscribe to Thimble’s newsletter yourself at this link.
I’m honored that The Lascaux Review wanted to reprint my poem “Nevermore.”
Check out this great online journal!
My poem “Post-Partum Jenga” is published in the new issue of Lunch Ticket.
Check out the rest of this issue too, especially the incredible poem by Albert Abonado. Thanks, Lunch Ticket!
Last week I had the privilege of participating in Crossing the Lines, an interdisciplinary diversity conference at PLNU.
In addition to presenting my own poetry from my Bible word-banking project alongside some of my incredible poetry students, I got to see presentations from other brilliant students, colleagues, and scholars. I also got to catch up with Jenn Givhan and hear her fantastic keynote address.
What an important and enjoyable conference! Thanks to Sam Powell and Maira Lopes for organizing this and including me.
