Big news!

I have news I am delighted to be able to share with you!  My second book, The Heart is a Muscle, a full-length volume of poetry about farming, resiliency, the complexity of love and loss, and everything else that happens in a human heart, will be released by Swimming with Elephants Publications in March 2020. …

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publication update

I’ve had the good fortune to have several poems accepted for publication recently. I have a piece in the winter issue of the lovely Manzano Mountain Review The current issue of Anti Heroin Chic is on grief, and they graciously reprinted a poem from my book. And I will have two poems and a photograph…

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Written on the Skin: an erotic poetry series

I am pleased to announce that i am coordinating a new erotic poetry reading series at Self Serve! The first one will be Sunday, July 21st, 3:30-5pm. The second will be in late January, and we hope to keep it up every July and January thereafter, as long as the juice lasts. I have a…

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Sunday Chatter, May 19th

I will be performing at Sunday Chatter on May 19th. The event is at 10 a.m. at Las Puertas, and tickets nearly always sell out in advance, so if you want to come, get yours today! https://www.chatterabq.org/product/may-19-2019/ I will have some new work, and some work from The Bones of This Land. This will be…

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publishing news!

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve had some work accepted for publication recently. The newly formed Erotix Literary Journal of Somatics includes four of my pieces: “sluice,” “the silence shapes the rhythm,” “flame to ash,” and “when you fall.” Three of these were written at or in response to Body Trust workshops; the other is…

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Out In Print reviews “The Bones of This Land”

Out in Print published a review of my book! Here’s an excerpt: Divided into two sections, “Everyone’s Father Dies of Something” and “Desert Solitaire,” the intent of this chapbook is clear from the outset. This will be about death, grief, and the aftermath of both. “This Aching Echo” lays out the specifics: you were fifteen…

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dark

you could be anywhere suspended in limitless dark but in fact you’re on a bridge. the dark is as necessary as the river. everything that lives grows from both.

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new review of “The Bones of This Land”

Lisa Gill writes, Turn these pages and “the barrel jumps/ in your hand and the stock / kicks your shoulder.” Inside The Bones of This Land, you’ll find a love taut as cells on the brink of dividing. Whether cancer, death, compassion or even affection rips humans apart, we’re all gonna get there. As Heatherington…

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