I look forward to joining recent California Beat Poet Laureate Dane Ince and the Time to Arrive Open Mic community as their featured artist this Tuesday, July 28th at 9 p.m. Eastern (that's 6 p.m. Pacific and cetera). Find the Zoom link at eyepublishewe.com or click the photo below.
Totally jazzed to be returning to Evansville, Indiana, on July 21st to read with the brilliant Jennifer Browne for Poetry Speaks at the Bokeh Lounge. Now I suppose I need to write a frog poem.
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Bokeh Lounge, 1007 Parrett Street, Evansville, IN 47713
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On June 28th, 2026, The Writers Guild at Bloomington will present the Allen Ginsberg centennial celebration edition of Last Sunday Poetry, featuring Ian Uriel Girdley, John Burroughs, Joan Hawkins, Marilyn Wolf, Josh A. Brewer, Lylanne Musselman, and Mary Sexson at Morgenstern Books, 849 Auto Mall Road, in Bloomington, Indiana 47401.
More info: facebook.com/events/1319150030057218.
Recorded by Paul Richmond for the National Beat Poetry Foundation on 29 August 2025 at Canton Town Hall in Collinsville, Connecticut. Introduction by Virginia Shreve. I was one of 20 Beat Poets Laureate who read that night and I shared two poems: "Bully for You" and "Aim High," both written for the Tupelo Press 30/30 in March 2025 (a few months before the death of my biological father, which I referenced in the introduction to my second poem).
You may pre-order the book for pickup or mailing at https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/ohio-bards-preorders.html.
I'll be part of this reading on Saturday, April 4th at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch. South Euclid Poet Laureate Doc Janning will emcee. Free event. Other featured readers include Doc, Ray McNiece, and Jeremy Jusek. Register at
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13505877.
The 2026 Sun & Moon Poetry Festival Invites Attendees to “Navigate with Poetry.”
Poets and poetry lovers are invited to explore the theme, “Navigate with Poetry,” during a weekend of writing workshops, readings, stargazing, and other activities that culminate in a celebration of poetry and the cosmos. Keynote guest Geoffrey A. Landis is an award-winning poet, science fiction writer, and scientist whose writing has appeared in more than twenty languages.
“At Glen Helen, Poetry and Nature become one in the ravine, the open sky, and our words,” said Susann Moeller, OPA First Vice President and festival chairperson.
Additional workshop leaders for the weekend are renowned poets Lauren Camp, Manuel Iris, Paula J. Lambert, and Dior J. Stephens. A special haiku hike led by Ray McNiece will offer visitors a chance to hear poems in the beautiful setting of Glen Helen Nature Preserve. The weekend also offers street poetry in downtown Yellow Springs, a haiku “death match,” native flute music, sound bathing, and an open-mic for festival attendees to share their own poetry.
"Thanks to the support of our sponsors, we have a remarkable lineup of poets and activities planned for this year's Sun & Moon Poetry Festival, which is a signature OPA event that demonstrates our commitment to expanding poetic craft and community in inclusive spaces," said Holly Brians Ragusa, OPA President.
Sponsors for the festival include the Ohio Arts Council, Full/Crescent Press, Lit Youngstown, LitCincy, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, and Crisis Chronicles Press.
Complete festival information, a program schedule, and accommodations information is available on the OPA website at ohiopoetryassn.org/sun-moon-festival
Registration is available through April 22th at eventbrite.com/e/sun-moon-poetry-festival-tickets-1892651303999.
The Ohio Poetry Association (OPA) is a nonprofit, educational volunteer organization with a 501(c)(3) Federal designation and a member state of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
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Join Main Street Rag for the launch of their North Coast Voices anthology (ed. by Chuck Joy and M. Scott Douglass), in which two of my poems appear, on Saturday 14 March in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Or order here.
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Though for a number of reasons my Crisis Chronicles Press is not tabling at this week's 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair, I am happy to be one of 30 poets taking part in Tupelo Press' annual 30/30 alumni offsite reading on March 5th, 6 p.m., at Greedy Reads Remington in Baltimore!
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Many of them short. Many more yet in progress.
View the whole list at https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2025/7975528.
Register at lityoungstown.org/winter-writing-camp.
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Join the Ohio Poetry Association on November 15th from 10 to 4:30 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch for an absolutely free Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference. Registration and more details at https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294.
Get Sharp! will include an Ohio small press book fair and fab workshop presentations by Dianne Borsenik, Geoff Anderson, Michael Salinger, and Susan Grimm.
https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/north-coast-voices-2025-poetry-anthology/
Thanks so much to BeatLife magazine and managing editor Belinda Subraman for the conversation! ♥️
At the end of the video, I read three father/dad-adjacent poems: "17 September 1966," "Matter Waves," and "Aim High."
Permalink: https://youtu.be/mKBKyZdnHgg
Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527480008379180.
[27 October update: I ended up reading four poems at this event: “When the Bat Signal Goes Dark,” “With Breath and Without,” “A Kiss for David Johansen,” and “Add My Tears to the Bodies of Water.”]
So many thanks to Ohio Poetry Association President, Holly Brians Ragusa, for her hard work on this excellent project in collaboration with the OPA and America's River Roots. I'm thrilled to have a poem ("After Kao Ch'an") included alongside the work of so many fantastic writers! View the whole digital flipbook anthology at https://midd.me/aspt.
AncestryDNA just updated my results with more specifics.
Interestingly, however, a different DNA company, 23andMe, gave me slightly different results in 2021:
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Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman for the invitation!
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