https://www.newamericanpress.com/newmidwest.phpI’m the Literary Arts Director at Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL). ALL is a fabulous nonprofit that serves all ages and promotes all types of art, including writing, visual arts, and music. For writers we have a reading series, write-ins, craft talks, the ALL Review, the smALL Press Library, affordable workshops, and more.
I’m a poet in the bluegrass band Coulee Creek (that’s me on the left, playing iambic pentameter). We’ve just put out a terrific tribute album for Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard titled Matriarch. Order your copy and own some bluegrass poetry history.
I also design lesbian poet trading cards for Headmistress Press. I donate my time because I love this project so much. It allows me to discover new poets or revisit old favorites and I hope it leads new readers to them. These are sure to be collector’s items (I mean, how could they not be?) and one of the coolest gifts ever, so you should buy some and support Headmistress Press.
And I’m also serving as co-editor the Best Poetry of the Midwest from New American Press.
And I answer my kids’ questions about politics, magnets, economics, and archaeology.
In my spare time, I wonder why I don’t have time to write.