I am so pleased to announce that “Two Gardens” (from Berkeley Postcard, a collection of poems about my mother) has won the first Rockvale Writers’ Colony poetry contest on the theme of Time. “Two Gardens” will appear in Rockvale Review […]
So pleased to announce in-person tarot reading appointments at Yoga With Shawna in Imperial Beach. Two options: 20-minute sessions during Reiki Clinics, or 50-minute sessions. The longer sessions come with a postcard copy of the butterfly lantern (with a personalized […]
In celebration of the San Diego Writer’s Festival, Susan J. Farese of SJF Communications conducted interviews with participating authors. Here’s a link to the San Diego Writer’s Festival website where you can find the full schedule of events, all free and open […]
Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing projects and dreams. We dove […]
Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions…your people, your family, your friends, your furries, your […]
For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In making postcards […]
Where in your life do you offer the cup of love? And how, first, do you extend love to yourself? Under which circumstances do you experience pure joy and can you imagine inviting more into your life? How can we […]
Is it true, as Carl Sandburg posits, “Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly?” How, as a poet, do you get yourself airborne? Whether you are simply poetry curious […]
Have you ever wrestled with angels? Named an angel? Loved or raged in the absence or presence of an angel? Whether you believe in angels or not, you will find them throughout literature, from Blake’s time to our time in […]
I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this month). Van Tuyl anchors us […]