The practice Heather Swan refers to in the last stanza of “Bowl” is called kintsugi, which in Japanese means literally, “golden joinery.” Yet this drive to highlight the cracks in something—what some might call its failures—goes against the message most…
You can watch me reading poems from Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection as well as a few of my own poems at the Bookstock Literary Festival in Woodstock, Vermont below. Many thanks to the tireless work of the organizers,…
Many, many thanks to Susan Jefts and The Rutland Herald newspaper for running this wonderful piece about my poem, "Down to Earth," dedicated to my husband, Brad Peacock. I don't think I've ever had anyone respond so deeply and truly…