poetry and old-time music
Poetry: Books, readings, teaching. Books include The Arborists (MoonPath Press, February 2023); Mytheria (Two Sylvias Press, 2017); The Cupboard Artist (Floating Bridge Press, 2012); Now (Bear Star Press 2007); and By A Thread (Van West & Company, 2000). Also Exercises to Free the Tongue, art and poetry collaboration with Ellen Ziegler, featuring poems and archival photos about my grandparents’ lives as ventriloquists on the vaudeville stage.
Music–old-time clawhammer banjo: Recordings, lessons, concerts, square dances. Recordings include Instead of a Pony, and Goose and Gander.
news
- The Arborists: New poetry book from MoonPath Press in February of 2023! Order directly from the store! Also available through Indiebound, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
- Watch and listen: Online reading from The Arborists with MoonPath Press and Ronda Piszk Broatch, author of Chaos for Beginners.
- Visit my Bandcamp page to download music or order recordings.
- Check out some banjo tunes on my You Tube Channel.
- Need clawhammer banjo lessons? Online or in person, depending on how the pandemic is going. Contact me for more details.
- American Banjo Camp, September 7 – 10, 2023, Port Orchard, Washington. Workshops, classes, all banjo, all the time, old-time and bluegrass styles.
- Two poems in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Tiny Architectures folio.
- New poem, “What Have You Not Done Yet?” up at The Shore.
- Read “There Will Be Beauty” at DMQ Review.
- Read “Sounds Heard from Inside the Ashes Box” at The Cortland Review.