Poet • Educator
Poetry helps me find “the place beyond words.” We poets use words to point ourself and others toward those ineffable places. When this water of 'being' is running through me, I write for the joy of participating and the hope of learning something new. If my words then touch others I am rewarded a second time.
I am excited to announce I have a poem in this issue of Michigan Quarterly Review, curated by Heather McHugh a nationally known poet and MacArthur Genius Award recipient who started Caregifted with her award.
You will also find in this special Caregiver issue pieces by Elizabeth Aquino and Irma Pinedo (translated by Wendy Call.)
I hope you’ll purchase a copy (or PDF) and support this great literary magazine.
Please find the poem, “On a Scale of 1 -10” online at SWWIM, published in August. It is one of the poems in my soon to be published poetry and visual art book dealing with autoimmune diseases called, The Body Lives Its Undoing.
Other poems included in the book, are forthcoming in the Michigan Quarterly Review and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “Sick Girl in the Wilderness” was published online by Isacoustic in July.
The book, published in conjunction with The Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) has been almost 2 years in the making. The visual art is stunning, with contributions by Julie Trout, Anna Hooser, Shelley Lowenstein, and others, some of whom are scientists that work at BRI.
I am grateful to have the poem “Tough”, from my poetry and art project on autoimmune diseases, out today from HEAL.
I am happy to have a poem up at Persimmon Tree journal dealing with grief of various sorts. Feel free to pass it on. Mine is the second one, scroll down.
http://www.persimmontree.org/v2/summer-2018/west-coast-poets/