There’s been a lot of poetic fun going on lately!

At the end of March, I participated the panel “Craft for Crafters: How Fiber Arts, Book Arts, & More Shape Our Writing” with cool kids Meg Cass, Emrys Donaldson, and Doug Van Gundy at the AWP conference in Los Angeles — such warmth and enthusiasm in the room! Should we start at Crafters Caucus at AWP and keep the momentum going? Perhaps!

At the panel I shared some of my woven work and visual poems, including these new mini-broadsides, just published in Issue 44 of Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing. Here’s one, but hop over to Issue 44 to see all three:

These mini-broadsides are 4×6″ photographs embroidered with lines from a poem, and then mounted (by four french knots) onto cardstock. I’m using this series as a test for a hopefully larger project.

I also have a poem included in the Winter 2025 issue of Action, Spectacle: “Can we drink from the same mouth.” This is one of two poems–so far!–I’ve written about carbonated water : )

These past few weeks, I’ve also been taking a zine-making class, offered online through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. I’m excited to show you what I’ve been working on — stay tuned!