I am pleased to announce the publication of a second edition of my chapbook SKELETON SAYS by Nightjar Poetry Press. The first edition, published in 2010, had been out of print for years and this edition has several enhancements including new cover art designed by this author and some new and recently edited poems.

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I am honored to have been selected for the Sally Albiso Poetry Award for my next full-length poetry book, Tender Currencies, due out from MoonPath Press, an imprint of Concrete Wolf, in 2025. Thank you, to the judge, Risa Denenberg, and publisher Lana Hechtman Ayers.

 I am honored to have served as a commissioned writer for the McKenzie River Trust's Willamette Confluence property in Western Oregon, as part of the Writing the Land Project. See below, for the poem-video (Writing the Land, 2023) produced for this project.

Writing the Land also publishes wonderful anthologies containing profiles of land trusts/conservancies with associated poetry for lands across the United States. This year, poets Kristin Berger, Brittany Corrigan, and I each wrote for different lands within the McKenzie River Trust's holdings. I wrote for the Willamette Confluence, where the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the Willamette meet.

For more info about the Willamette Confluence and McKenzie River Trust, see: https://mckenzieriver.org/property/willamette-confluence/

I value the solitude, community of artists, and exposure to landscapes that residencies provide. The Great Basin in particular has had a powerful effect on my writing, as I’ve been traversing it for close to forty years, first as a ski racer in my teens traveling to events across the West, then as a geography student and eventually a professional land use planner working with small towns in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and beyond.

As a writer, over the years, I have been a fortunate recipient of multiple residencies with Playa at Summer Lake in Oregon’s Great Basin country. I’ll return this March to work on my next full length book of poems. I also hope to use the time to explore an idea for a nonfiction project that has been on my mind for a long time and should draw on my experience as a small-town planner and artist.

Thank you for reading, and happy trails.

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