Pushcart Prize Nomination

I’m excited and grateful that Kestrel has nominated my poem “Turning Off the Blood” for a Pushcart Prize.

Best of the Net Nomination

I’m happy to announce that The Hooghly Review has nominated my poem “One Goose Lands” for the Best of the Net 2024. Thank you to the editors!

Past Events

April 2024

I enjoyed reading my poem “Why I’m Making Scones,” published in Presence, as part of the wonderful One Poet, One Poem reading at the Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing.

November 2023

My poem “Pinned” was named an honorable mention in the 2023 Passager Poetry Contest. I had a chance to read it at the Passager Journal issue launch on November 12 via Zoom.

October 2023

I read an excerpt from my translation of the eighteenth-century tale Double Game by Louis de Cahusac at the Literary Division’s After Hours Café during the annual conference of the American Translators Association in Miami.

June 2023

On June 29, I had the pleasure of participating in the launch reading for Jed Myers‘ chapbook The Arcane Mechanics of Constant Lift from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. I read two poems, “On Buying a Piece of Water Buffalo Horn as a Chew Toy for my Dog” and “Magnolia Warbler in Central Park.” Here’s a clip: