let's join together in community during 2025 to celebrate words & wilds ~

Still so nourished from this gathering in McCarthy with Sabrina Simon & the Wrangell Mountains Center and all of you! So grateful for our shared conversation around the local themes that arise from the book.

Thank you to Chelsea Steiner Scudder and Dede Cummings for such a generative conversation about our connection to the human and more-than-human world. Such a treat to call-in from the AK cabin!

Thanks to the Morris Thomas Cultural and Visitor Center in Fairbanks, AK for this rich conversation with poet Annie Wenstrup & essayist Erica Watson.

So grateful for this wonderful community gathering at the Denali Education Center with poet Annie Wenstrup & essayist Erica Watson.

Wonderful to be together with kindred author, meditator, and teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo and all of you on May 22nd! 

Delighted to be the third guest on May 7th in a series of Conversations in Poetry hosted by creative genius Maya Stein. Thank you to everyone who joined!  Recording is available HERE Passcode: SC*s8K%#.

Such a beautiful back yard evening this past April 30th with local Durango, Colorado community and brilliant teacher, friend, and colleague Erin Treat.... thank you for being there!

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So grateful to have been together on April 23rd with remarkable Dena'ina author Annie Wenstrup as we read & shared from our recently released books rooted in northern latitudes. Thanks Haley, Green Writers Press, and all you who came into online community with us!

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Thank you delightful Orcas Islanders, friend & teacher Djuna Devereaux, Sara at Darvill's Bookstore and everyone that came out on April 15 for such a beautiful community conversation about our lives, latitudes, and the power of language. Huge gratitude!

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Such an amazing community event - thank you to everyone who came on April 5! and special appreciation to Kriz from Wayfinder Books, Anne from Parks & Rec, Haley from GWP, and my brilliant and conversation partner Will Kabat-Zinn. My heart is so full...

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Thanks to Dede and to everyone who came by Green Writers Press booth #635 at the AWP Conference on March 28. I loved connecting with you all...

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So lovely to be in such good literary company with the writers from Mouthfeel Press and Green Writers Press on March 27... thank you to founders Maria & Dede for your amazing work in the world...

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Thank you artist Eric Aho, publisher Dede Cummings,  my Finnish dad Lyle ;> & all of you who participated on Feb 27!  Unfortunately the recording did not cooperate, so hopefully the imprint is still there from our live time...!

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What a meaningful event! - thank you to everyone who participated on Jan 15, to my kindred lover of land and nature CMarie Fuhrman, and to our host Haley from Green Writers Press CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE RECORDING