My poetry is informed by a deep engagement with the natural world, attuned to the smallest details and complexities of nature and our experience of place. Attentiveness and mindfulness are critical to my method of working, both as the poem first evolves and later, through the often rigorous process of revision.

I believe poetry is the most direct language with which to approach our place in the world and reconnect us to nature. By nature, I mean not only the natural world, but also the built environment; not only the processes and causal powers of the physical world, but our immediate experience of the spiritual and the non-human. I want a poetry that is open, approachable, and eminently readable, at the same time that it is intellectual and revels in the joy of language.

Hear my reading @ the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House, 22 September 2008 (See Episode 71):  http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/series/live/