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About Me

Some reviews from very nice people: "This is a writer who dwells well in absurdity, who creates worlds where everything surrounding her is filled with significance." Victor Infante, Worcester Telegram&Gazette. "These poems exhibit great intelligence, overwhelming curiosity, and vivid imagination. Subjects range from Existentialism, the Buddha, and synchronicity to cake, Tarot cards, and fractal geometry. Poems are fresh, often about love and/or about how difficult it is to connect with each other. Above all they are human, often playful and downright funny at times, as they show the maturing face of this performance poet's work." Jennifer MacPherson, www.comstockreview.org

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artsy types, people who live where they live. People who honestly want to tell me how their lives are going, or talk about Lost, or both. Send/post poems, I'll read 'em.

My Blog

April 30: Calling it a month

Well, turns out I only did 21 poems in 30 days, but compared to my usual 2-4 per month, it's pretty impressive. Next year I'll go for the full 30, no breaks. I'm so glad I did this April. Thanks to ev...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:19:00 GMT

April 29: Wisteria!

Wisteria!Like slang, they're nowherethen everywhere, proliferative,advancing, sweet parasite blooms.Gathered around the tree's shoulders,as if the tree were chillyin a 1920s tea room.Soft like nightgo...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:00 GMT

April 28: Called in Shipwrecked

Called in ShipwreckedPlease keep your confessions,I am nothing like a vault.I am smashed,every inch a barnacle.There is no part of me that is new,no scrubbed deck or snapping flags.Keep your semaphore...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:16:00 GMT

April 24: Thanks for Saving My Life.

I Wish I Knew Your NameWhenever I hear or read about Bystander Syndrome(the tendency, when hearing a cry of distressto assume that someone else is already helping)I think of you, in your pitch-black3 ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:52:00 GMT

April 23: Another Springy Poem

I'm repeating some images here, but who knows where they'll eventually end up, when I reread them next April?What Passes for CompensationA direct deposit of airthe last magnolias and the first lilacs,...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:49:00 GMT

April 22: Lilacs Talk back.

First Lilacs, NW Philadelphia.They: We cloud in with the first foliage,but you've saddled us with mortaility.This is what we smell like under helecopter surveillance.Me: I've been dreaming from your p...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:41:00 GMT

April 20: Califooooorniaaaaaa...

Dear Orange County 2000-2001,Sometimes I pretendthat I can love anyone else as muchas your seascape dealing, crystal sculpting,smiling painted dolphin hating, sunsetpausing, water reclaiming, sprinkle...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:37:00 GMT

April 19: Love Poem

A lot of things happened yesterday, and all those things happen to have filled my heart with strawberry cream, or cherry nougat. So this poem isn't so much a poem as a piece of emo, which is like a pi...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:10:00 GMT

April 16: 2 more teacher poems

Writing About the Senses With the ChildrenMuttering, pounding on cafeteria tables, teeth-sucking,snickering "Be quiet!", a poem about pee, pencils scratching, whispering, tapping feet, passing cars,qu...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:21:00 GMT

April is Autism Awareness Month.

 Families like my sister's work their asses off and deserve all the care they can get, so go here:http://apps.facebook.com/causes/321/30186911?m=6d54c0aa or read "Look Me in the Eye" or "The Curious I...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:21:00 GMT