Upcoming Publications:
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- If Blue, Then Sing (an essay forthcoming with Press Pause, 2021)
- Physics and Green Room (poems forthcoming on Plume Poetry)
- A Story of Circle and Breath (a stand-alone excerpt of my novel forthcoming in Brain Mill Press)
- ash from a previous Night (an essay forthcoming with Always Crashing)
- Ableism in the Fitness Industry (an article forthcoming with The Stylist UK)
- Mystery Confirmed (a poem forthcoming in Sonic Boom, April 2021)
- Headstone and Remainder (poems forthcoming in Gyroscope in 2021)
Read now:

2021
- Mainstream Mental Heath is Hazardous For Your Mental Health in Mad in America (January 28, 2021)
- The Professionalization of Mental Health is Ruining Friendship on Mad in America (January 2, 2021)
- Second Hand on page 80 of Book of Matches’ inaugural issue (January 1, 2021)
2020
- You Would Not Have Heard The Music in Issue 11 of Glint (December 31, 2020)
- There Is No Panting Dog in Issue 16 of Whispering Prairie Press (Winter 2020)
- Stop Saying This: an encore! on Mad in America (December 20, 2020)
- Groceries, on page 106 of Deracine’s Volume VII’s issue (Winter 2020)
- Stop Saying This, Part 6: It Takes Two, Life’s Not Fair and More on Mad in America (November 18, 2020)
- Co-presenter of the CEU course Girls on the Spectrum, offered through the Washington State Society For Clinical Social Work (11/10/2020 via Zoom)
- Stop Saying This, Part 5: Fake it Till You Make it on Mad in America (Oct. 21, 2020)
- The Person Next To You Should Hear You Breathing in House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Fiction, Volume 2, Oct. 21, 2020)
- Building Blocks in CommuterLit (Sept. 28, 2020)
- Stop Saying This, Part 4 on Mad in America (September 9, 2020)
- Adulto, El Fin de dia, and En La Pradera, three Spanish poems forthcoming in Flying Ketchup Press’s anthology The Very Edgy Poetry Collection (Sept. 1, 2020)
- A book review of Unrigged on Real Change (Aug. 12, 2020)
- Stop Saying This, Part 3 on Mad in America (Aug. 6, 2020)
- My interview on The Habit Project podcast (Aug. 2, 2020)
- Hawaii’s Feminist COVID recovery plan – my first shared byline – in Yes! Magazine (July 15, 2020)
- Things to Stop Saying, Part 2 on Mad in America (July, 12, 2020)
- Book review of Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera in Real Change (July 1, 2020)
- Hawaii Has a Feminist COVID Recovery Plan with Mobilisation Lab (June 30, 2020)
- Things to Stop Saying, Part 1 on Mad in America (June 14, 2020)
- COVID: A Mirror for Autism on Cognitive Sensations (June 8, 2020)
- A book review of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things in Real Change (May 27, 2020)
- Opinion is the New Bullseye read aloud on Rattle’s weekly virtual open mic series (May, 24, 2020)
- Loneliness is Deadlier Than COVID on Mad in America (May 13, 2020)
- Green Room with Lucky Jefferson (May 1, 2020)
- Autism Explained, episode 1068 of the Psychology in Seattle podcast (April 30, 2020)
- Dinner at the Candlestick Table Issue 1 of 34 Orchard (April 2020) – **this was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- Mental Health Professionals are Struggling, too, Here’s How They’re Supporting Each Other on Yes! Magazine (April 20, 2020)
- There’s Something Spreading Faster Than COVID-19, and It’s Not Fear. It’s Toxic Positivity on Mad in America (April 20, 2020)
- Suicide and And We Crawl in Issue 11 of Lotus-eater Press (April 16, 2020)
- You Would Not Have Heard The Music on Visible Magazine (April 2, 2020)
- We Need More Than Hand Washing To Fight COVID19 in Rooted in Rights (March 27, 2020)
- Observing Makes Play – my podcast interview on The Annie Altman Show – episode 78 under Season 5 (March 21, 2020)
- COVID-19 Relief Needs to be Permanent in Yes! Magazine (March 20, 2020) – included in this comprehensive list of racial-equity resources published in April 2020
- Coronavirus media and interpersonal messages are strongly tending toward ableism and ageism in Real Change (March 19, 2020)
- Please Stop Saying Depression is Like Diabetes on Mad in America (March 12, 2020)
- I Wasn’t Lying About The Fire with Revolute (March 2, 2020)
- I wish human destruction was like Cordite Review (Feb. 1, 2020)
- This Trans-Owned Co-Op Builds Community and Economic Stability in Yes! Magazine (January 29, 2020)
- My second podcast! Episode 35 of The Very Bad Therapy podcast is my experience with abuse of power (among other things) in the church.
- Architect on Selcouth Station (Jan. 5, 2020)
- Mystery Confirmed in Panoplyzine (January 3, 2020)
2019
- Dog Walking in Comstock Review’s print-only Fall/Winter 2019 edition
- The 8th Plague on 8 Poems (December 26, 2019)
- When Do Death and Destruction Break in Pedestal Magazine (December 19, 2019)
- A book review of Rebel Minds in Real Change (Dec. 18, 2019)
- Good Little Light, Roadrunner Review, which nominated it for 2020 Best Small Fictions with Sonder Press
- This is Your Voice, Okay? with Moria Press (December 2, 2019)
- The Company on Scarlet Leaf Review (November 13, 2019)
- Capitalism Makes Solutions Impossible: A Review of Rebel Minds on Mad in America (November 8, 2019)
- Ghost List with Sunlight Press (October 28, 2019). Sunlight Press nominated this piece for Sonder Press’s 2020 Best Small Fictions Anthology.
- Book review of Can You Hear Me? by Elena Varvello in Real Change (October 2, 2019)
- A/B Testing on Kissing Dynamite (September 30, 2019)
- Guilt with Glintmoon (September 25, 2019)
- How It’s Done, which was one of three that won Third Wednesday’s George Dila Memorial Flash Fiction, (Fall 2019 Issue of 3rd Wednesday)
- My first appearance on a podcast: A Philosophical Conversation on The Shit You Need To Know (August 28, 2019)
- How Steep is That Sidewalk? in Yes! Magazine! (August 21, 2019)
- Oenophile in The Anglican Theological Review, Vol 101.3 (Summer 2019)
- In Defense of Anger on Mad in America (August 15, 2019)
- Compassion Fail: Housing is a right, not a reword (August 14, 2019)
- Where my last name came from, which I’m keeping despite getting divorced (June 24, 2019)
- Celebration Room on Commuter Lit (June 13, 2019)
- Lessons from Mom with 8 Poems (June 2019)
- My third guest post for Women in Theology: What: Mental Illness in the Body of Christ (June 10, 2019)
- Blaming The System May Be The Best Therapy on Mad in America (May 25, 2019)
- It Isn’t Easy When You See Everyone Die, an excerpt from my novel manuscript in AMP Hofstra’s Literary Magazine (May 2019)
- The Glass Ledger and Timber in DASH (Spring 2019)
- A review of Megan Abbott’s Give Me Your Hand in Real Change (April 17, 2019)
- The Therapeutic Role of Blame in Mad in America (April 6, 2019)
- I wish human destruction was like in Thimble Magazine (March 22, 2019)
- I Get To Decide What’s Helpful For Me on Mad in America (March 13, 2019)
Reading from my poetry book Long Division at Tupelo Press’s alumni reading breakout session at the AWP in Portland, OR, Spring 2019 - Anger on The Manifest Station (March 7, 2019)
- A book review of Thomas Clerc’s Interior on Real Change (Feb. 20, 2019)
- My second guest post for Women in Theology: Who and How? An Invitation: (February 11, 2019)
- Both Sides, End After End and How The Church Tells Time on isacoustic (February 6, 2019)
- 5 Ways to Protect the Planet While Uplifting People with Disabilities published in Yes! on 1/24/19 was picked up by TruthOut (January 27, 2019)
- 5 Ways to Protect the Planet While Uplifting People with Disabilities in Yes! Magazine (January 24, 2019)
- 17 “Impossible” Success Stories That Prove We’re Making Progress in Yes! Magazine (January 23, 2019)
- A book review of The Death of Truth in Real Change (January 9, 2019)
- How To Be Good, a print-on-demand children’s book I created with an illustrator in late 2018-early 2019 that stars various trees to discuss authenticity and what makes a creature “good.”
2018
- Nothing is Red on Counterclock (December 14, 2018)
- To Be Tacked on Corporate Doors on Folded Words (November 28, 2018)
- The Real Attention Deficit Disorder on Mad In America (November 24, 2018)
- My first guest post for Women in Theology: An Introduction to Mental Illness in a Theological Context (November 23, 2018)
- Stars, Ice and Fuel in caesura (November 17, 2018)
- A book review of Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses in Real Change News (November 14, 2018)
- Laundry: Home of the Good Shepherd in J Journal (Fall 2018 issue)
- I Want a Reply, an essay for NUHA’s writing competition (Oct. 31, 2018)
- Suicide Hotlines, Risk Assessment and Rights: Whose Safety Matters? on Mad in America, Oct. 23, 2018)
- Anger on Women’s Voices Matter (Oct. 15, 2018)
- Part 2 of my book review of Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon (Oct. 12, 2018)
- “Love in the Injustice Age,” page 40 of the Fall Issue of Shantih Journal (Oct. 6, 2018)
- “The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You” in Earth’s Daughters’ #92 (She Persisted) issue (October 2018)
- We Need To Talk About Self Care on Mad in America (October 2, 2018)
- Perforation; Stars, Ice and Fuel and 12-Step Communion with Leaping Clear (fall issue, September 2018)
- Negative Space in the fall issue of borrowed solace (Sept. 21, 2018)
- A book review of Andrew Keen’s How to Fix the Future in Real Change (Sept. 19, 2018)
- David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency on Mad In America (Sept, 12, 2018, the ten-year anniversary of DFW’s suicide)
- Here, Me with The Adirondack Review Fall Issue (September 1, 2018) – this prosepoem has been nominated for a Pushcart (December 2018)
- The Impervious Surface of Professional Help: A Letter to My Therapist as part of Mad in America’s spotlight on Suicide (September 1, 2018)
- Sleep Study with the now defunct daCuhna (August 27, 2018)
- Can a Strict Vegetable Diet Cure Cancer? A review of The Food Cure in Yes! Magazine (August 16, 2018)
- (For)Give Us Our Senses in Raven’s Perch (August 5, 2018)
- Part 1 of a book review of Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon on The Seattle Star (August 3, 2018)
- The Equality App with Ghost Parachute (August 1, 2018)
- A book review of BJ Mendelson’s Privacy and How to Get It Back from Real Change News (August 1, 2018)
- #MeToo or Not to #MeToo Should Not Be The Question, reposted on Women’s Voices Matter originally posted on The Manifest Station, was solicited to be (July 13, 2018)
- Perforation with Pangolin Review (July 8, 2018)
- A book review of Svend Brinkmann’s Stand Firm in Real Change (July 11, 2018)
- An op-ed about the myth that poor people are coming to Seattle for our “good services” in Real Change News (July 4th, 2018)
- An interactive book review of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (June 30, 2018)
- Papa Asparagus on Soft Cartel (June 23, 2018)
- “Oral History” on page 8 of Issue 22 in Redactions: Poetry and Poetics (June 2018). This poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as of November 2018.
- Suicide in a Culture of Mandated Happiness – Who’s to Blame?, one of the most popular articles on Mad in America the week of June 14, 2018
- “How To Talk About The Weather” in the now defunct Ibis Head Review (June 2018 issue)
- An interactive book review of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (May 31, 2018)
- This Is Your Personality Test on Capitalism on Mad in America (May 29, 2018)
- A review of my chapbook Long Division on At The Inkwell (May 24, 2018)
- Happy Little Trees: A Call for Positive Art During Dark Times, Folk Rebellion’s The Dispatch (The American Dream Issue, May 2018)
- “You Don’t Look Disabled”on Unemploymentville (May 8, 2018)
- An interactive book review of Molly Peacock’s The Analyst (May 7, 2018)
- Book review of The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla in Real Change (May 2, 2018)
- But You Should Never End a Sentence With a Bird on Sunlight Press (May 2, 2018)
- Both Sides and Insomnia at the Beach on Blanket Sea (April 16, 2018)
- Apply Yourself, Your Whole Self and Nothing But Yourself– my first blog post with Mad in America (April 6, 2018) – my posts will be appearing once a month or so on Mad in America.
- A book review of A World of Three Zeros by Nobel-prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunnus in Real Change News (April 4, 2018)
- “Walk Up Not Out” is a campaign of cowardice and control in Real Change News (April 4, 2018)
- Caregiver on Unbroken Journal (April 1, 2018)
- A Mouth Named Cat (pages 16-20) in Riggwelter (April 1, 2018)
- What’s Wrong with Saying Stephen Hawking is Finally Free with Yes! Magazine (March 29, 2018)
- The Raft of Life with Flash Fiction Magazine (March 27, 2018)
- Perdida para Kiribati, my first Spanish-language poem with Toyon Literary Magazine (March 22, 2018)
- Time with Spanida Literary Review (January 26, 2018)
- Subjects for the Smoking Room, a short story on Contrary Magazine (Jan. 8, 2018) – this short story has been nominated for a Pushcart (November 2018)
2017
- Long Division, my first chapbook, released September 2017 with Finishing Line Press: Contact me to order a copy or order here.
- A review of The Book of Joan in Real Change (Dec. 6, 2017)
- But You Should Never End a Sentence With a Bird on Here Comes Everyone (Nov. 21, 2017)
- Why I’m Not Having Kids on My So-Called Selfish Life (Nov. 8, 2017)
- Kindness Matters op-ed in Real Change (Nov. 8, 2017)
- Depth Perfection in Zone 3 (Fall 2017)
- To The Invisible in Issue 5 of The Fenland Reed (Nov. 2, 2017)
- Subjects for the Smoking Room received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s very short fiction contest (Oct. 25, 2017)
- Everything Orbits Camels on FictionWeek (Oct. 24, 2017)
- Young for Now, also included in my chapbook Long Division on the Same (Oct. 23, 2017)
- True story about Andrea Mobano, mother of three who fled the Congo thinking she’d never see her husband again (for a decade, she was right) (Oct. 17, 2017)
- Hard was a finalist in the Pen2Paper Poetry of Disability contest (Oct. 9, 2017)
- Why do we continue to accept the totally unaffordable reality of Seattle’s housing market?(Sept. 27, 2017)
- Portmanteau originally published in 2015 is now part of Pith’s first anthology (Sept. 11, 2017)
- Labor Day in Snapdragon (Sept. 9, 2107)
- Labor Day in Gravel (Sept. 1, 2017)
- Book review of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy in Real Change News (August 9, 2017)
- Don’t Fall (for it) The Way The World Did in Up The Staircase Quarterly‘s Audio/Visual issue (August 1, 2017)
- Subject on Monstering Mag (July 22, 2017)
- Interview and review of Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins in Real Change (July 19, 2017)
- Shootings, Each a Mile Away and After Mom’s Grave on Sheila-Na-Gig (July 16, 2017)
- Metamorphose, winner of Creative Ink’s monthly poetry contest – UK version and Irish version (July 14, 2017)
- Mending School in Belletrist Magazine’s Volume 2 (July 2017)
- A Positive Mind Hurt My Body in You and Me Magazine (June 30, 2017)
- Presented from Church in the Decaying Shipyard, my full-length manuscript of poetry, at the Society of Vineyard Scholars’ annual conference at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT (June 22-24, 2017); video recordings: reading and follow up discussion
- A version of Busy is the New Fine in Real Change (June 21, 2017)
- Busy is the New Fine on Amendo (June 15, 2017)
- Light for the Blind in the now defunct Bottlecap (May 21, 2017)
- “I Wish I Was as Skinny as You” in the now defunct Lady Literacy Magazine (May 5, 2017)
- The March for Science Did More Harm Than Good in Real Change (May 10, 2017)
- I’m on the Autism Spectrum and Autism Awareness Month is Complicated for Me on PsychCentral (April 17, 2017)
- Self-Acceptance, in the Origami Poems Project‘s second annual The Best of Kindness 2017: The Poetry of Kindness (April 4, 2017)
- Cast Your Vision in Door is a Jar (April 3, 2017)
- Embracing the Homeless Woman Selling Papers in America Magazine (March 21, 2017)
- A Hoisting Point, pages 35-37 of issue one of The Hungry Chimera (March 1, 2017)
- Book review of The Rise and Fall of American Growth in Real Change News (Feb. 15, 2017)
- Stop Calling Trump an Outsider, reprinted in Real Change (Feb. 15, 2017)
- To My Confessor in the now defunct Forage Poetry (Jan. 28th, 2017)
- The Hyphen is Not a Subtraction Sign, in Paper Nautilus’ Exhausting Honesty: An Anthology of Rage and Hope in America (Jan. 20, 2017)
- Stop Calling Trump an Outsider in Anti-Heroin Chic (Jan. 20, 2017)
- It’s Not Alzheimer’s on Visitantlit (Jan. 11, 2017 )
- $7 and Other Ceremonies in On Broken Stones (Tupelo Press), a collection of 2015 Truchas conference attendees (Jan. 2017) – if you would like to order a copy of this short chapbook, please let me know.
- Spoiler Alert on page 34 of Obra/Artifact’s Issue 1 (Jan. 9, 2017)
2016
- Walking While Female on Stoneslide Corrective (Dec. 31, 2016)
- We Are All Here on Path With Art (Dec. 31, 2016)
- Glass Hour on Algebra of Owls (Dec. 13, 2016)
- Divorce in the Winter 2016 issue of After the Pause, page mmm (Dec. 3, 2016)
- Not Jumping (since formatting matters, imagine this in four-lined stanzas rather than each line on its own since that’s the way I wrote/agonized over it), runner up in its annual Foley Poetry Contest in print and online in America Magazine (Nov. 28, 2016)
- An original piece about my experience after Donald Trump’s election on the now defunct This Is Not Normal (Nov. 17, 2016)
- Working Mom on 200 CCs (Nov. 4, 2016)
- A book review of The Making of Donald Trump in Real Change (Nov. 2, 2016)
- Placed in Glimmer Train‘s top 25 for their Very Short Fiction contest (Oct. 2016)
- Book review of The Value of Homelessness in Real Change (Oct. 12, 2016)
- Book review of Dark Money: The Hidden History of Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right in Real Change (Oct. 5, 2016)
- Purple is for Playtime, a print-on-demand children’s book I created with an illustrator in 2016 that talks about friendships starring Blue and Red and how they interact with the other colors.
- A revision of Pinata on poems2go.wordpress.com (Sep. 9, 2016)
- Politics in The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, a great weather for MEDIA anthology (August 8, 2016)
- In Defense of Apologies on ThoughtCatalog (July 26, 2016)
- How and why my husband and I both changed our last names when we got married on the now defunct xoJane (June 17, 2016)
- The Green City in Real Change (June 15, 2016)
- Thoughts about unfriending on the now defnuct xoJane (June 9, 2016)
- Thoughts on Trump, an Op-Ed in Real Change (May 25, 2016)
- Birthday; April Contest winner for CreativeInk’s monthly writing contest (May 25, 2016)
- When You’ve Reached the End of Your Rope, Please Hold On on ThoughtCatalog (May 6, 2016)
- Letter to the Editor in The Seattle Times(April 25, 2016)
- Daring to Hope in Syria, in Pankhearst’s America is Not the World anthology (April 15, 2016)
- Autism Awareness Hurts, Rather Than Helps, People on the Spectrum on the now defunct xoJane (April 12, 2016)
- Trigger Warnings Censor and Harm Survivors on the now defunct xoJane (April 8, 2016)
- Op-Ed in Real Change (April 6, 2016)
- Looking Autistic in The Atlantic (March 24, 2016)
- Cornfield Country republished w/ permission on Seattle Pacific Seminary’s blog (March 17, 2016)
- Book review of Invisible in Austin in Real Change (March 2nd, 2016)
- Piñata, Physics and Vapor in the now defunct Tiny Poetry: Macropoetics (Feb. 26, 2016)
- Five poems from my chapbook Long Division with the now defunct Five (Feb. 23, 2016)
- When Getting Grounded Takes a Sea in LitroMagazine (Feb. 20, 2016)
- Interview with Alyssa Katz, author of The Influence Machine: The Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life in Real Change (Jan. 27th, 2016)
- Clay, top-ten finalist in the now defunct Blue Bonnet Review’s annual poetry contest (Jan. 22, 2016)
- Op-Ed in Real Change about fear and comfort in today’s political environment (Jan. 6, 2016)
2015
- Book review of The Rule of Nobody in Real Change (Dec. 9, 2015)
- Contest winner: short piece in course catalog (winter 2015, page 2)
- Laundry in Three Line Poetry (Nov. 2015)
- Essay in Atticus Review: “ASD: A Spectrum in the Rough” (Oct. 27, 2015)
- Letter to the editor at The New Yorker (Oct. 26, 2015) re: Malcolm Gladwell’s Thresholds of Violence
- Portmanteau with the now defunct Pith (October 22, 2015)
- Interview with author Robert Scheer about government spying, his book They Know Everything About You and what we can do to restore individual privacy (Sept. 30, 2015)
- Interview with medical interpreter trainer Juan Gutierrez in Real Change (Sept. 23, 2015
- How To Get Really Married in the Juniper Artland Competition (Sept. 22, 2015)
- The Pastor on fiftywordstories.com (Sept. 8, 2015)
- Received Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest’s 84 Annual Writing Competition for my nonfiction essay Depth Perfection (Sept. 2015)
- Vapor, printed on a postcard, interview with Red-Flag Poetry Service (August 15, 2015)
- Participation in the Lament for the Dead project, mourning the loss of Craig Whisenand (August 12, 2015)
- Op-ed article in Real Change about the laws banning/restricting distributing food to the homeless (July 15, 2015)
- Op-ed article in Real Change about WA State’s new addendum to its mental health legislation, “Joel’s Law” (May 27, 2015)
- May 2015 participant in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project – a poem-a-day fundraiser for this indie literary press
- Five Pieces on Scotland’s Annual Open Arts and Craft Open Studios event, the “Spring Fling” (May 22, 2015)
- “Carousel Time” in Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee (April 30th, 2015)
- “The Green City” on New Verse News (April 5th, 2015)
- “Catch” in Souvenir Lit Magazine (Feb. 27, 2015)
- Bio and story on stigamfighters.com (Feb. 7, 2015)
- Book review of War of the Whales by Joshua Horwitz in Real Change (Jan. 8th, 2015)
2014
- “Why Women Matter: The Church of God as the Face of God”on The Junia Project (Dec. 9, 2014)
- Book review of Getting Life by Michael Morton in Real Change (Nov. 5th, 2014)
- “To Infinity and Beyond” (a never-ending fight between my husband and me about the nature of infinity) in Clash of the Couples(released in stores November 3, 2014)
- “Promises,” “Instructions” and “After,” in the now defunct Lodestone (Oct. 1, 2014; print/digital)
- “Church” (Aug. 2014) and “Abacus” and “Cornfield Country” (Dec. 2014) in Page and Spine
- “Excerpts from a War Memoir” in Halfway Down the Stairs (June 2014)
- Articles and review for Seattle Pacific Seminary’s blog (Sept. 2013 – Oct. 2016):
- Reflections on former bishop N.T. Wright’s lecture
- Synopsis of Madeleine Albright’s Visit
- Review of James Bryan Smith’s Church Leaders Forum
- Synopsis of James K.A Smith’s “Imagining and Desiring the Kingdom Lecture
- Review of the Annual Paul T. Walls Lecture: Dr. Wall on Revelation: Part I and Part II
- Synopsis of “Spiritual But Not Religious: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age” Discussion
- Review of Andy Crouch’s keynote address for the Day of Common Learning
- Synopsis of Race in America after Ferguson Forum at SPU: Part I and Part II
- Reflections on Seattle Evangelicals for Racial Justice, hosted by First Free Methodist Church
- Palmer Lecture Series: Review of Lecture and Q&A session
- Reflections on the Pacific NW Conference’s Racial Reconciliation Summit
- Recap of “Hackers, Spies and Freedom” – a lecture by former (and longest-served) director of the NSA, Gen. Keith Alexander
- Summary of the annual Wall’s Lecture
- Reflections on the First Annual “No Limits, No Boundaries” disability event
2013 and older
- “Little Book of Longing” and “Simulacra,” ditchpoetry.com (Dec. 2013)
- “A Rescue,” Café Aphra blog (Sep. 2013)
- Short, untitled piece, The Sun Magazine’sReader’s Write section (Feb. 2013)
- “Wishing Well,” Ballard Street Poetry Journal (March 2012)
- “Well,” honorable mention in Writer’s Digest Essay Competition (May 2011)
- “Blessed Are We,” Vineyards: A Collection of Christian Poetry(Feb. 2011)
- Nature of Words Rising Star Competition:
- Won Poetry category for “The Little Book of Longing,” age group 25+ (Nov. 2012)
- Honorable Mention in poetry category for “Dinner with My Father,” age group 19-25 (Nov. 2011)
- Honorable Mention in nature essay category for “Noisy Roots”, age group 19-25 (Nov. 2010)
- Won nonfiction short story category for “Moving,” age group 19-25 (Nov. 2009)
- “To Be Attitudes,” grand-prize winner in the poetry category for Chapel Arts Commission at SPU (March 2009)
- My very old blog I started to document my solo travels around Europe in the summer of 2009 and a bit beyond
Comments
Megan
Your review “Poet Slam” is a brave piece.
For years I was disturbed by Hall’s specious claim that “The sound and density of poems require more testosterone,” a claim he made repeatedly. Implicit in that is a criticism of female poets. http://www.triquarterly.org/node/273721
And then there is the disgusting notion of “Hall’s Harem.”: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/donald-halls-late-burst-of-creativity
I hope your review gets read and leads to more discussion of this ugly side of poetry, and more talking back.
I stumbled over your piece on the National Suicide Hotline while on my way to that hotline to call them. I’m in deep at this point. I really appreciated what you had to say as I’m concerned for no cops at my door. They aren’t whom I need just this minute or today or tomorrow.
I’m an anti-capitalist myself, so I also appreciated your remarkable and surprising understanding of how social and cultural influences can also contribute to how people become suicidal. You’re quite right in my opinion, but then what am I doing? I’m not calling the hotline and my psychiatrist is done with me, as is everyone else.