The Way Back Machine
My article, “The Way Back Machine: Writing About Family in the Classroom,” was published in California English, Vol. 221, September 2016, pn page 20. It featured Lucille Lang Day’s...
Oakland Book Festival 2016
I will be reading this Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 at the Oakland Book Festival. Hearing Room 4: 4:30—6:00pm “East Bay Poetics: Love and Duty” featuring: Elmaz Abinader, Sharon Coleman, Sharon Doubi...
Sausalito Reading
I will be reading in a California Quarterly-hosted reading of Northern California CQ poet-contributors this Thursday, April 7th. 7 p.m. for goodies and mingling, 7:30 to 9:30 reading. Sausalito City...
99 Cent Stair!
Some of you kind readers have mentioned that you wish to share “my little Stair” — as I refer to my children’s novel on Kindle, The Stair in the Wall — with friends as g...
California Quarterly
Two of my poems were included in California Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 2 (with beautiful artwork by editor Pearl Karrer on the cover.) The poems were “Screen Doors” and “Bring Th...
Oakland Book Festival
I will be participating in the first-ever Oakland Book Festival, which runs 11 to 6 or so at Oakland City Hall and in front of said hall, at 14th and Broadway, Oakland. 12th St. BART will get you with...
Berkeley City College Reading
I will be reading, along with other contributors to the PEN Oakland anthology, Fightin’ Words, on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 6:30 p.m. in the Berkeley City College Auditorium. In addition, as...
In This Syntax of Water
My poem, “In This Syntax of Water,” was published in George Wallace’s fine on-line poetry magazine, Poetrybay, in the Fall/Winter 2014 issue. Here’s a sample and the link ...
Fightin’ Words Launch Party
GROUND-BREAKING BAY AREA ANTHOLOGY BLENDS SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND LITERATURE Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from “The Blue-Collar” PEN Launch Party and Reception Saturday...