I had such a wonderful weekend presenting at the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference reading with Stacey Balkun, Sally Rosen Kindred, and Donna Vorreyer on “Reinventing Ever After: Women Reclaim the Fairy Tale in Poetry”…… Read More Reinventing Ever After at C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
It’s been a whirlwind semester, so far. In addition to reading and editing fiction submissions for Border Crossing with two wonderful interns, I’ve been teaching two courses for the first time: a course on Responding to Writing for future teachers, and an intermediate creative writing course for majors and minors that is specifically designed to help students take risks in their writing, to… Read More The Alchemy of Teaching Writing
I’ll be the featured poet at this week’s Superior Poetry Cafe, tomorrow, Thursday, October 9, 2014, at 7 pm at Bayliss in the Sault. Wolf Skin will be available for sale and signing. The open mic after the reading is always interesting! U.P. poetry folks and fairy tale aficionados, see you there.
Sunday, I had the pleasure of reading with five other woman poets at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago–I’m so grateful to Nina Corwin and the Gallery for organizing this reading in this amazing space. It was a wonderful experience to listen to and read with these other inspiring poets! I had never been to the… Read More Mutations of Otherness at Woman Made Gallery
I’ll be reading from Wolf Skin in Chicago on June 1 from 1:30-3:30 pm at the Woman Made Gallery Literary Series on the theme of “The Other,” as part of the group art show that is ongoing through June 26. Fellow Dancing Girl Press poet, Janeen Rastall, whose work is wonderful, will also be reading, and I’m a… Read More June 1 Reading in Chicago
I’ll be reading Tuesday, October 29 with six other The Way North writers: Ellen Airgood, Julie Brooks Barbour, Eric Gadzinski, Sue Harrison, L.E. Kimball, and Janice Repka. Come out and see us, 7pm at the Superior District Library, Bayliss Library in Sault Sainte Marie.
I’ll be reading three times for the U.P. Book Tour this year: Friday, August 2 at 7 pm, Beaver Island Public Library. Monday, August 19 at 6 pm at the George W. Spindler Memorial Library in Woodland, Michigan with other The Way North writers. Tuesday, August 20 at 6 pm at Schuler Books in Okemos, Michigan with other The… Read More U.P. Book Tour
I will be reading at the Manistique Public Library on June 25, 2012, from 1:00-3:00 PM. as part of the U.P. Book Tour and hosting an event at the Rock River Cafe in Chatham on June 27, 2012 from 6:00-8:00 PM.