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Welcome to my web site.  Here you'll learn about my poetry, essays, and other writing.  Samples of poems and links to published works are included in the pages on this site. 

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.

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what's new

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/

New poem, "Intelligent Design," in American Poetry Review, July/August 2008 issue.  Read it here.

Check out this new (May 2008) animated video of my poem "Indwelling," made by Jerry Collinson: video 
 
New poem published in Parlor (Fall 2007). Read it here: "An Unwelcome Guest"

Two poems from "dwelling" sequence in recent issues of Poetica ("dwelling: to leave" in March 2007) and Many Mountains Moving ("presencing" in Volume VIII, March 2008).  Available in print only (sorry).

New Poem: "healing" published in the Elegant Thorn Review: Read it Here

A new article on the power of stories to make social change in Terrain:
Social Entreprenuers & Storytelling

Two new poems from my Dwelling sequence in Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments: "Redshifting" and "Shapeshifting": Terrain 16 

Read my weblog "The Green Skeptic" on Blogspot.  Click here to be taken to the latest posting: http://greenskeptic.blogspot.com/

"Spartina" (poem) appears in Philadelphia Stories magazine, December 2004.

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photo by Mickey Rosenau

 
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