Coming right up on the afternoon of November 8:
Poet Tree Productions – A Field Guide to the Heavens – an afternoon garden party to celebrate 10 years of the Poet Tree
Join us to celebrate poetry, local jazz, local makers, and 10 years of our community Poet Tree in South Park, with cake and bubbles too.
Find details and tickets at Eventbrite: Poet Tree Productions.
Recent Honors
Included in Best New Poets 2025 Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses, 2026:
“Late Spring Epiphany
After the Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit”
–originally published at The Adroit Journal
Pushcart Prize Reading at Beyond Baroque, archived online here
Selected for third prize in the Red Wheelbarrow Prize by Stephen Kuusisto who said, “‘Once Opened’ is a poem about consciousness with a touch of William Blake in the best way—this is sweet, urgent, dark, and wholly original.”
Reading with Mark Doty and Diane Seuss at Poets Corner Maine, recording available here
Winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Poetry Contest for “Ways to Wear It” selected by Ted Kooser, out now in NOR 36, and nominated by NOR editors for Pushcart Prize LI.