Writing

On Dream Street
Photo with permission of the W. Eugene Smith Family Foundation

“Like an acrobat singing an aria” – Molly Peacock
“In these magnificent poems, it’s as if Emily Dickinson’s compression and intelligence were stretched out over a longer, sinuous line that wraps around itself and searches out significance in observations rendered so intense they transform into vision.”  – Gregory Orr

Selected Poems :

FROM TEN CURES: FOUND POEMS
COUNTRY LOVE SONG
VERGE
CANTICLE
MOCK ORANGE

Selected Art Writings

This Tropic of Resemblances
  An essay on the collaborative exhibition with poet Richard Blanco and artist John Bailly

Nothing Beside Remains
  An essay for exhibition and book on photographer Tasha Doremus‘  Refugee photographs

Current Projects

Terra Incognita, a second book of poems, under submission
‘”The, the'”: An Essay on Poetry and Garbage, under revision
WomenWriteToolKit: A website of free writing curriculum for women’s hallway houses, prisons, and rehabs
Thicket, a novel, in research and drafting stage