2024 Events

January 8 - Joshua Academy, Van Buren, AR. Poetry workshops with grades 2-3, 4-5

January 11 - Interview with Matt Hoisch, The Laureate Project  podcast

January 15-29 - Writing retreat in Clearwater, FL

February 5 - Virtual workshop, middle school, St Cyril of Jerusalem School, Los Angeles, CA

February 19 - Muse Writers Center virtual poetry workshop, winter semester. Six sessions, every other week, Norfolk, VA

February 25 - Spectra Faith and Art Worship Service featuring my poem "Mephibosheth's Nurse," Fellowship Church, Fayetteville, AR 

March 5 - Reading at North Arkansas College, Harrison, AR. 

March 10 - Workshop, Magdalene Serenity House, Fayetteville. 

March 25-27 - Lectured, led critique group, Ozark Lucidity Poetry Retreat , Eureka Springs, AR

April 20 - Artists 360 Spring Alumni Retreat, Bentonville, AR

April 24 - Poetry Workshop, Helen Tyson Middle School, Springdale, AR

June 3 - Muse Writers Center, spring/summer poetry workshop

June 11 - "Poetry on Purpose" (laureate project) launched: first of bimonthly visits with team to memory care center at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville to bring poetry and music to residents with dementia 

June 29 - Visit to Rowher AR Japanese Internment Camp Museum to conduct research for narrative poem

July 11 - Taught poetry at Magdalene Serenity House in Fayetteville to residents rebuilding their lives after incarceration, trauma, sexual exploitation, and addiction.