April 25, 2024

Interview: 4 questions for Murfreesboro’s Poet Laureate

Thanks to Michelle Willard at the Murfreesboro Voice for this interview about Sugar Fix, my background in software development and the importance of STEAM, and the upcoming Southern Festival of Books - one of my favorite weekends of the year. Read the interview here on the Murfreesboro Voice. This is a good time to remind you of the Tennessee STEAM Festival, with events related to science, technology, engineering, art, and math, happening Oct. 11-20 across the state. … [Read more...]

Sugar Fix featured on BookTube Tuesday video

Sugar Fix is one of three featured books - of different genres - featured in today's BookTube Tuesday video by Mr. Nance, an educator and avid reader, on his YouTube channel. Thanks, Mr. Nance, for sharing the #poetrylove again! Here's how to get your Sugar Fix! Retro TV image: Pixabay … [Read more...]

Sugar Fix reviewed in Harbor Review

A review of Sugar Fix now appears in Harbor Review, an online journal for poetry and art. Reviewer Cameron Morse says in part: "The reader is clearly in the hands of an accomplished weaver of yarns. … She holds us accountable for our memories, our histories, our desires.” Read the full review at Harbor Review. (And fellow poets, you might be interested to note that HR has a couple of chapbook competitions, as well as accepting poetry for bi-annual issues).   … [Read more...]

Poem from Sugar Fix featured in YouTube video

Mr. Nance, a high school teacher and avid reader who has a YouTube channel of educational videos, reads and shares "In This Bright Land" from Sugar Fix. Watch below or follow this link to YouTube. Thanks, Mr. Nance, for your enthusiasm for this poem and book! Here's how to get your Sugar Fix! Vintage camera image: Pixabay … [Read more...]

Sugar Fix is “charming, surprising, and moving” – and now available!

My first full-length poetry collection, Sugar Fix, has made its debut in the world at the beginning of my favorite season - on the autumnal equinox - and one week shy of my fifty-somethingth birthday. This begs an entire essay or speech about second acts and second chances, but that will have to be on another day. For now, "elated" sums things up for me. I had a few early copies to sell at the poetry and storytelling booth at our local arts festival this weekend, and one review has already … [Read more...]