Cincinnati area friends, please be sure to check out the show, “Art for Peace & Justice,” which is on exhibit at the Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Mount St. Joseph University from March 5 to April 11, 2018. Also, I’ll be amongst the poets reading at the gallery reception on Thursday, March 22, 6-8 PM. […]
Happy to share that I’m one of the mentees selected to participate in the Fall 2017 session of AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. It is such an honor to work with my mentor—the wonderful poet and writer; warm, encouraging, and inspiring advisor—Shikha Saklani Malaviya! My gratitude to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs for
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I’m glad to be in Ripton, Vermont as a general contributor in poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017. It was a beautiful day today, up here at the mountain. So much to look forward to! Workshop meetings, craft classes, lectures, readings, the Robert Frost picnic, and more! I’m excited, a bit nervous too;
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I’m excited and honored that two of my poems found a home in this wonderful book. Many thanks to the editor, Saad Ghosn, and his team for their hard work towards compiling this collection of poems and artwork.
Sharing here my poem that recently featured in the Cincinnati Poetry Month Daily Project and the Cincinnati Walking Sonnet Project. Many thanks to Pauletta Hansel for the wonderful work she does as Cincinnati Poet Laureate. Pauletta Hansel Did I mention I loved sonnets? Yes, I believe I did! Preeti Parikh of Blue Ash wrote this
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Reblogging a post from Cincinnati Poet Laureate Pauletta Hansel’s website and sharing a poem that arose from an interesting project that I had a chance to participate in: Pauletta Hansel In October 2016 The Mercantile Library graciously hosted a group of us for a Cincinnati Walking Sonnet workshop—a new Poet Laureate project in which I invite
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Hello there! A few gentle nudges by friends and some queries from well-wishers inquiring about my absence have brought me back here to the blog after a brief hiatus. To answer the most pertinent question–yes, I have been writing in the interim. The majority of my time and effort has been devoted to reading, working
I am glad to be back here at the blog after a brief hiatus. The time away was well spent—studying, practicing, and immersing myself in a small online community of poetry students. Led by an enthusiastic and committed teacher, our group read over a hundred poems by a varied selection of poets and studied the
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I realize that I have been missing in action here at the blog for some time now. I have been a bit preoccupied in the last few weeks, taking a couple of online courses, educating myself about writing. There is one course that I am enjoying immensely that talks about the craft of poetry. There is a