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You won’t want to miss the stunning debut poetry collection from the incredible Cassandra Whitaker! Join us for the launch on 7/29! bsky.app/profile/cass...

Thrilled to find a home for the lead poem of my manuscript Whorl. Thanks to editor Adam Vines and the Birmingham Poetry Review editorial team for the publication!

Excited to give the Poetry Day Keynote on Sunday, May 18th LIVE at Manor Mill! If you’re in the Baltimore/DC/Annapolis area there are still a few seats remaining. Register for Poetry Day at manor-mill.com/poetryday

Hope to see you in Wilmington on Saturday! Excited to share my poems alongside stellar poets David Little and David Kozinski at the mansion!

Excited to share the stage with writing friends Brent Lewis, Kenton Kilgore, Beth Dulin and Joyce Maust! Hope you can join us live at Queen Anne’s County Centre for the Arts in Centreville, Maryland on Saturday, April 12th from 7-9 pm EST! @brentfnalewis.bsky.social @bethdulin.bsky.social

Thanks to all for the fabulous birthday wishes! Had a blast rocking out the open mic at the BTO After Party at QACAC for 55! Much thanks to all for the happy wishes! 💕

Thanks ESWA for the privilege of chairing the Bay to Ocean Conference since 2018. It has been an honor to work with so many speakers whom I’ll continue to work with on Thursday’s with ESWA as Executive Director. The conference is in great hands with Faith Addair & Ron Sauder taking up the charge.

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IDIC: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty." --Spock

Happy new year!

Happy holidays from the land of the flu! My son is lying low with Rudolph’s red nose, boxes of tissues, & Robitussin and has asked for no pictures from the mamarazzi this year. 🤣 Happy holidays to all!

Thrilled to share a beautiful new poem by Alfredo Aguilar featured on Zócalo Public Square! Take a moment to read it here: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/alfredo-agui...

Loved seeing the process of Octavio’s fantastic poem unfolding in this essay for Poetry Daily.

Thanks so much to editor Lisa Lewis and the editorial team of The Cimarron Review for publishing “Valentine” in the latest issue! 💕

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ready to start cooking…

the lesson of the falling leaves by Lucille Clifton the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

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Thrilled to have new Goddess poems from Whorl in DC-based Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Many thanks to editors Indran Amirthanayagam and Renee Gherity!

New poems in the current issue of SLAB. Thanks to Nicholas Pierce and Kristen Craycraft and the editorial team!

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Thanks Birmingham Poetry Review! www.instagram.com/p/DAlh9WJSzq...

Another of my poems from my manuscript “Whorl” appears in the new issue of Cumberland River Review. Thanks to EIC Graham Hillard and the fabulous editorial team for the publication! crr.trevecca.edu/article/grief

Reading at Manor Mill with Meredith Davies Hadaway…

Very much looking forward to reading my work alongside extraordinary Eastern Shore poet Meredith Davies Hadaway and hearing the many talented voices of Manor Mill at the open mic! Monday, July 1st at Manor Mill. For more Information, visit: manor-mill.com/poetry

Excited to have a poem from Whorl appearing in the summer 2024 issue of Coachella Review. Read “Thirteen” here… thecoachellareview.com/2024/06/07/t...

Honored to have a new goddess poem from “Whorl” in Cumberland River Review. Thanks to editors Graham Hillard and Sierra Jones of Nashville’s Trevecca Nazarene University for publishing “Confession”. crr.trevecca.edu/article/conf...

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Thanks again to judge Kirwyn Sutherland,, Poetry Editor Courtney Bambrick, and the editorial staff at Philadelphia Stories for the incredible honor of being featured in this fantastic issue. To read "Control", about my dad teaching me how to drive on ice, click the link.

Thrilled that my poem "Control" was selected by judge Kirwyn Sutherland as a runner up in the Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Contest! Congrats to first prize winner, LaVonna Wright, and to all who placed!

Excited that my manuscript, Whorl, placed as semi-finalist in the Perugia Press Prize this year! Huge congrats to Joan Kwon Glass for her manuscript Daughter of the Three Gone Kingdoms, and all the finalists and semi-finalists! 💕

Excited to have a Goddess poem published in The Normal School! Thanks to editors Steven Church, James T. Morrison, Alberto Saldaña Uribe, and the editorial team at California State University, Fresno for the honor! 💕 www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2024/2/...

Thrilled to have a new poem published in this issue of 32 Poems! Thanks to editors George David & Elizabeth Clark and the incredible 32 Poems editorial team for the honor! 💕

Thanks so much to whomever nominated me! Humbled to be among so many talented poets sending in work. 💕

Thrilled to have a new mythology poem published by Panoply, A Literary Zine. Thanks to editors Jeff and Tara Santosuosso for the honor. panoplyzine.com/letting-go-o...

Excited to have a poem in Quartet Journal! Thanks to editors Linda Blaskey, Jane Miller, & Heather Davis for publishing "Flight". To read the poem and extraordinary work by other women poets over the age of fifty, visit: www.quartetjournal.com/current-issue

Much appreciation to the incredible staff of the Rappahannock Review for publishing "In Dread" -- a poem inspired by the persona poems of Lucille Clifton. To read more about the inspiration for the poem click the link in the bio.

Thanks to Maryland Writers Association and President Anthony Russo for having me in to read my poetry and recording the event as a podcast. Listen here...