Upcoming Events
March 15, 2024 (5:30 p.m.), The Bookery, Outer Space: 100 Poems panel and reading with Liz Ahl, Robert W. Crawford, Alfred Nicol, and a special guest appearance by Rick Broussard, writer, raconteur, and former executive editor of New Hampshire Magazine, Manchester, N.H.
Recent Events
November 16, 2023, Commons in Space, Write It Down! Poetry and Our Heritage of Space Exploration, 5 p.m. EST, Reading from Outer Space: 100 Poems, with Alice Gorman, Donna Kane, Jay Ruzesky, and Yun Wang.
November 3, 2023, (5-6 p.m.), Finding Your Way: The Night Sky, Online event for Humanities@Home, New Hampshire Humanities
October 7, 2023 (7-8 p.m.), Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading/Panel, St. Johnsbury, Vt., with Robert Crawford.
September 23, 2023 (TBD), AMC Joe Dodge Lodge at Pinkham Notch, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading
September 13, 2023 (7-8 p.m.), Old Man of the Mountain Exhibition Poetry Reading, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, N.H.
August 18-20, 2023, Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Instructor, Take Time to Pretend - Dramatic Monologues, Frost Farm, Derry, N.H.
July 28, 2023, Interview with Shelby Traynor of The Science Show, ABC Radio National, on poetry, space, and Outer Space: 100 Poems
July 5, 2023, Digital Festival for the History of Science, Space Science Meets Poetry: Reading/discussion from Outer Space: 100 Poems, British Society for the History of Science
June 24, 2023 (7:30 p.m.), AMC Highland Center, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading (Details here)
June 10, 2023, Interview with The Liuniverse: Talking with Dr. Charles Liu, Allen Liu, and Yun Wang, cosmologist and poet about the poetry of the stars!
May 24, 2023, 8 p.m., Plough Quarterly Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award ceremony
May 23, 2023, 6:30 p.m., Arts in the Atrium Reading with Kyle Potvin and Robert W. Crawford, St. Joseph’s Hospital, 172 Kinsley St. Nashua, N.H.
May 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m., McGregor Poetry Contest Reception, Derry Public Library, 64 East Broadway, Derry, N.H.
May 13, 2023, 3 p.m., Powow River Poets Reading Series, New Books Reading with Kyle Potvin and Deborah Warren, Newburyport Public Library, 94 State Street, Newburyport, Mass.
May 11, 2023, 6:30-8 p.m., Kelsay Books Reading, Emma Andrews Library, 77 Purchase Street, Newburyport, Mass.
April 29, 2023, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Newburyport Literary Festival, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading/Panel, Newburyport, Mass., with Liz Ahl, Robert Crawford, Michael Ferber, Deborah Warren, and Anton Yakovlev.
April 21, 2023, 6-10 p.m., Yuri’s Night Portsmouth, Reading from Outer Space: 100 Poems, 3S Art Space, 319 Vaughan Street, Portsmouth, N.H.
April 1, 2023, 7 p.m. (EDT), Kicked off Poetry Month with a Twitter Space discussion with Dr. Space Junk, a.k.a. Dr. Alice Gorman, about poetry, space, and kittens!
March 23, 2023, 7 p.m. (GMT), Cambridge Festival, Poetry in the Stars, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, CB3 0HA, Cambridge, England (I will be introducing this in-person event virtually)
March 21, 2023, 7-8:15 p.m., Steal This Poem! Online event with Poetry Society of New Hampshire
February 28, 2023, Space Cafe Podcast, SpaceWatch Global: Exploring the Intersection of Space Science and Poetry. Talking with Markus Mooslechner about Outer Space: 100 Poems, artists’ roles in planning our future in space, and my favorite song for the space travel playlist!
February 16, 2023, 7 p.m., See the recording of this special online reading of Outer Space: 100 Poems hosted by Carmine Street Metrics. Featuring an all-star lineup! Ned Balbo, John Curl, John Foy, Dr. Alice Gorman, A.M. Juster, Donna Kane, Janet Kenny, Leslie Monsour, Victoria Moul, Jay Ruzesky, Dr. Yun Wang, and Anton Yakovlev.
January 8, 2023, 4:00-5:30 p.m., See the recording of Poems from the Night Skies Zoom reading, hosted by The Poets Corner Maine
January 4, 2023, 7 p.m., The Hoot Poetry, reading from Outer Space: 100 Poems, plus some of my own poetry, Portsmouth Book and Bar
December 2, 2022 6:30pm, Super Stellar Fridays, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading/Panel with Liz Ahl, Robert Crawford, Rhina P. Espaillat, Michael Ferber, and Alfred Nicol, McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center and Planetarium, Concord, N.H.
November 3, 2022 6:00pm Outer Space: 100 Poems Book Launch at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop. Readers include Victoria Moul, Robert W. Crawford, Mina Gorgi, and Cathie Clarke, Director of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University. Sign up in advance!
October 16, 2022 7:00pm, Save the Dark Dark Skies Event, Outer Space: 100 Poems Reading/Panel, AMC Medawisla Lodge, Maine with poets/translators Bill Coyle, Robert W. Crawford, Michael Ferber, and Alfred Nicol.
Workshops
I have taught Introduction to Poetry and Advanced Poetry Writing at various colleges in the area, including Chester College, New Hampshire Institute of Art, and Northern Essex Community College.
In addition, I've taught three-day workshops, Introduction to Rhyme, Introduction to Meter and Rhyme, and Take Time to Pretend: Dramatic Monologues, at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference. I’ve also given talks on The Art of the Dramatic Monologue for the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and Poetry for Children for UMass Lowell.
I am also available to give a talk on women poets of the White Mountains. New England women poets have been visiting, living in, and writing about the White Mountains for almost two hundred years, both being influenced by and influencing the landscape. I examine poems by Lydia Sigourney, Edna Dean Proctor, Lucy Larcom, Jane Kenyon, and others.
I received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire in 2006, the first MFA awarded by that institution.
If you're interested in my holding a reading or workshop, please contact me