EVENTS!

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Readings and Creative Writing Multi-genre Workshops

Thesis Reading

"Aperture": A Mixed Genre Eco-poetics

Monday July 21 at 5pm-7pm

Thatcher Theater

Western Colorado University, Gunnison Colorado

Forthcoming Events

RMMLA: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Wednesday October 15- Sunday October 19, 2025

Centennial by Davenport Hotel

Presentation: The Language of Querencia: My Green Vista"

Friday October 17, 10am

Spokane Washington

Reading and Open Mic November 4, 2025

Poet Jenny Forrester as Director of Mountain Bluebird Magazine and Press reads her work at McDonald Book Store in Estes Park, Colorado and shares her space with an Open Mic. I will read my poems, “Hen & Buck” published with Mountain Bluebird Magazine and Press and “In her drowning” published by

Milkweed Poetry Journal.

Book Launch & Readings by “Women Dedicated to the Wild”

November 6, 2025

Courtney Johnson author of Hike the Parks: Best Day Hikes, Walks, and Sights of Mesa Verde National Park & Beyond (2025), Poet Erin Robertson as Writer in Residence of The Friends of Coal Creek, and myself will be reading our work at Briggs Street Books and Music @

615 Briggs Street Suite D Erie, CO 80516. Owners Casey and Dan Gump:

www.briggsstreetbooks.com

I will feature my essay, “My Green View at Vista Verde Trailhead” Campfire Stories: Santa Fe & Taos – Tales and Travel Companion (2025).

Past Readings and Workshops

Reading and Open Mic October 9, 2025

Poet Julie Cummings President of Columbine Poets read her work at The East Simpson Coffee Company in Lafayette, Colorado and then shared her space with an Open Mic.

www.columbinepoetsofcolorado.com

I read my poems “At Day’s Break: Sapphic Stanzas” published by Dos Gatos Press and “Arachnid Haikus” published by Wingless Dreamer Magazine.

Western Literature Association Conference September 21-24, 2025

“Words on Fire: Honoring the Multicultural Western Narrative” www.wla.org

OKANA Resort, Oklahoma City, OK

Panel: Land Sites of Meaning

Presenting: “Site Fidelity as to Querencia, Beach Glass as to Sand”

Public Reading CDBF: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival: 2025 Haiku contest September 7, 2025

Sloan’s Lake Park, Denver at the 360 Stage. https://www.cdbf.org

Poem: Un Año Nuevo along el Río: Honorable Mention for “First Line Magic”

Guest Judge: Poet Morgan Liphart

Mirror the sky, blue

Desert sages green piñón

Snow, where have you gone?

Public Reading with Tiny Spoon: An Experimental Literary Magazine May 31, 2025

East Window Gallery: 4550 Broadway St. Suite C. Boulder, CO 80304 – 7-9pm

Poem: “Moth Clutched Loosely” in “Superstition/Divination.” Tiny Spoon. # 13. (Pp 90). www.TinySpoon.org

Open Mic with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Mukamal Camp May 6, 2025

Lauren Camp continued her state-wide project, “The Epic Poem” in which she prompted her audience to participate by incorporating their own lines. Therein the audience was asked to the mic. I read my poem, “After All Our Cantankerous Prayers”.

Taos Center for the Arts: www.tcataos.org 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571

Reading of Creative Nonfiction: “Nautical Map, Perforated Fold” April 17, 2025

Guest Speaker in Claire Boyle’s “Nature and Society” Course for Western Colorado University’s MFA Graduate Program in Creative Writing – Nature Writing.

Poetry Slam and Public Reading February 15, 2025

A Western Colorado University Reunion of sorts during the Fort Collins Festival of the Book. Faculty, students, and alumni gathered to perform their work at “Speak Cheesy” a local venue that supports the arts. I read “Hen & Buck” and “Carry: A Spell Poem”. www.focobookfest.org

A Reading of my poem “Slider Door” June 9, 2024

Moonstone Center for the Arts www.moonstoneartscenter.org Philadelphia, PA

An On-line Reading and Anthology in celebration of World Environmental Day, which is annually held on 5 June. This event encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. 2024 focused on land restoration and drought resilience, which marks the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

A Collaborative Reading: April 17, 2024

A Public Reading with Poet Erica Reid, author of Ghost Man on Second (2023) which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. I was invited to introduce her by reading four of my poems: “I wait for the loveliness”, “I’ve Come into Plains Country”, and “With Eyes Wide Open”: A Broken Sonnet Series at The Read Queen Bookstore in Lafayette, CO.

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