Readings + Events
Winter 2024
Now through Jan. 31:
Palm Frond Zoo art exhibit at the Mission Valley Public Library in support of literacy. Stop by during regular business hours!
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Dec. 10, 5pm: Bring a poem to read and catch my feature on the Online Open Mic Series Words With You, with Robbi Nester.
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Dec. 14, 11am-5pm: Join me at UCSD Cultural Center for SDPF24 Coda, a Poetry Festival— showcasing diverse, ever-growing, intergenerational SD poetry communities.
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I'll be in the 11:30am-1:30pm sessions in the Comunidad room
with fellow poets:
Karla Cordero, Samira Hassan, Michael Klam, Gill Sotu
​and Conversations with Poets
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Recognitions
2024
All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents won first place in the creative verse category of California Press Women's communications awards. It also took third place at the National level this June at the National Federation of Press Women annual ​conference.
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At the CA level, "100% Mom," first published in Whale Road Review, was also awarded second place.
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A 2024 Best of the Net nod from Cathaxis for my poem "You are 600% hotter than the Sun." Honored to be nominated!
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Two poems ("Lviv, Ukraine" and "Inspiration Point") in the running for the 2025 Charter Oak Prize! Send good vibes.
Recent News
2024
Thanks to The San Diego Union Tribune Arts & Culture and University Heights Uptown News (pg 9) for recent mentions!
Thank you, New Pages for including Power Point in your New Books list for October.
Great to be included in September's Literacy Month article by MIT Sloan Alumni News. Thank you, Hayley Bierman!
East County Times published a lovely review of Power Point this September. Thank you, Pennell Paugh!
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Diane Gottlieb and Harbor Review Magazine wrote an insightful and sharp book review of Power Point. Thank you!
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Thanks as well to Readers' Favorite for
their 5 Star Review for Power Point.
Selected Past Events
Fall 2024
Jim Moreno's "Make Good Trouble" Podcast and Second Sunday's Poetry Reading Series in La Mesa are a mainstay of San Diego's poetry activism and free expression. It was an honor to be invited as a guest on the show. Here's a link to the recording of the podcast. My interview is about 10 min into Season 2, Episode 7.
Check out my set at the Second Sunday reading here. I'm about an hour in, surrounded by a beautiful community open mic.