Read at Poets in the Park a few weekends back and reunited with one of my oldest friends, my classmate Christopher Luna from the Jack Kerouac School. We studied together at Naropa nearly 20 years ago and worked together for the fundraising department catering fancy parties. Many of the early poems in my book Equivalence were about those strange times in Boulder. Chris looks pretty much the same as I remember him, with some grey in his beard these days. Chris is now Poet Laureate of Clark County (Vancouver, WA).

I’m excited to share that I’ll be part of the 2017-18 Speaker Bureau for Humanities Washington.

Thanks to Donna Miscolta and Debra Ross for hosting me at a special program on race and social equity for King County employees.

I’m having an onstage conversation with rapper/novelist Kate Tempest on her new novel The Bricks that Built the Houses tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Elliott Bay.

Last night at the Rose Theater with Jessika Kenney and Lori Goldston performing Bill Porter’s Remembering Them Gone.

I’m excited to be a part of the 2016 Jack Straw Writers cohort, curated by Karen Finneyfrock!

Available now, here.

I gave a talk at Town Hall a few weeks ago as part of the “As I Age” public art project in Seattle.
Presentation at 26:00:

https://townhallseattle.org/event/as-i-age/

Hugo House, 7 pm

Presented in partnership with Emily Johnson/Catalyst, On the Boards and Hugo House

Local writers, their perspectives, stories, and poems have a prominent place within SHORE in this curated reading featuring original work relating to home, place, and land.

Infinite associations, connections, and disconnections people have with, to, and from these sites are conjured in the moment of the reading and create a shifting, localized context for our stories, memories, and own definitions of home. Curated by Emily Johnson.

FEATURING:
Quenton Baker
Margot Kahn Case
Roger Fernandez
Shin Yu Pai
Juliet Waller Pruzan
Hugo House Summer Scribes
Red Eagle Soaring