Poetry

Poet Statement

I spent a great deal of time as a child in the University of Arkansas library with my Dad, where I was intensely interested in the library card date-stamp machine. This led to a lifelong love of books, words, and a slightly odd obsession with adding machines and old-fashioned cash registers. My first free-fall into my love of poetry came in high school, when I interviewed and read the books of local poet Miller Williams for Mr. Burke’s English class. Ever since, I have been fascinated with the craft and power poetry holds, how it awakens us to new ways of seeing and being in the world, and how it tasks the poet to find the fewest words to say the most, especially in the cacophony of language in our world today.

I am a perennial student of nature, inner realms, and the wisdom of the body, and write to bear witness and disentangle the world as I perceive it.

I’m so excited to announce my first chapbook (small poetry collection) has now come out with Devil’s Party Press! I’m busy at work on my second collection now!

break in the field chapbook

My new poetry collection, Break in the Field

 

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