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I’ve been spending some time during this long weekend reading articles, posts, Tweets and varied forms of artists’ writing about why and how they do what they do. It has always been interesting to me to read or hear about the process through which individuals come to their art, or through which their…
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I’m writing a novel and my protagonist has been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. So, I am alert to information about the disorder, and I just stumbled on an infographic about it. Here’s the link: http://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/fact-sheet?ref=tc I love it when the research arrives with such ease.
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I’m excited to be part of a global poetry event on this coming Saturday. Around the globe, poets, musicians, artists will be sharing their work in the service of change. Bringing art out into the world collaboratively every hour. Here’s information about the event I’ll be participating in: Backyards: Poets for Local Change 2014 a…
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Originally posted on Tenure, She Wrote: There is a plethora of research on the causes of hostile environments for women in academia, and on why we have an underrepresentation of women in many fields. There are support groups for women, societies entirely devoted to women academics (broadly and field-specific), workshops for women in academia, and…
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I don’t Reblog often, but this post by Kelli Stevens Kane is about much more than Slam Poetry. Enough said. Please read on….
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I’ll be reading poetry and some fiction with several excellent writers this week, as we kick off a new reading series at a beautiful loft space in Oakland that has great vibes. PANDEMONIUM PRESS READING SERIES 1ST WEDNESDAYS AT SPICE MONKEY 1628 WEBSTER ST, OAKLAND, CA AUGUST 6: HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 7-9 pm featured poets: Sharon…
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Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone—An Online Learning Experience – National Writing Project. This summer, I decided to hop on board an online course and community of educators led by teachers and authors Cathy Fleischer and Sarah Andrew-Vaughan called the Unfamiliar Genres Project. Their book “Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres” is…
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I’ll be reading with a stellar lineup of writers this evening at Lyrics & Dirges hosted by the lovely and gracious Sharon Coleman. I’m first up, so get there early or you’ll miss me. Here we are, in reading order: Joyce E. Young Monica Zarazua Joshua McKinney Katayoun Zandvakili Rusty Morrison We’d love to have…
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Had a great time reading at Beast Crawl 2014 last night. The Beast Crawl Collective rocks! Writers Tony Press, Robert Pesich, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, and yours truly took the stage and held the audience rapt with our wordsmithing at Spice Monkey. We worked it, to say the least. I had an absolute blast.…
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I’m in the process of creating a broadside of one of my poems that I plan to gift audience members with at two upcoming readings (I will post about them separately). The broadsides of my own work are a first for me and I’ve had the great fortune to learn more about the history and…
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