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So excited to have a poem up in @frozenseapoetry 
Deep gratitude to the editors!!
Next Wednesday!! So excited to be reading with Aruni in celebration of our collaborative chapbook!
A couple of poets went up to the high desert in the 110 degree weather to demand more heat, more lunacy from the landscape and out came these videos.

My video is set to my poem Archeology of a Phone Call. 

Thank you to @amsannazzaro for making the
So excited to be celebrating @nicelle_davis and her book Language of Fractions with these amazing poets at @bblitarts ! It will be magical evening. Hope to see you there!!
I am beyond myself to announce that the collaborative chapbook with my dear friend @aruniwrites is now available to order from Picture Show Press, run by the incredible @hungrybookstore . I am still in disbelief that Aruni even considered me for this
Indictment reading tomorrow!! 

Zoom link (also in bio):

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81405465476
Join me this Thursday for a night of poetry reading at @therubyfruit ! @vinylowl always put together really wonderful and interesting events, and I'm super excited to be reading with @iamthatandi
So happy to have a poem in the new Spillway magazine among such amazing poets! Thank you to Moon Tide and all the editors!
Posted @withregram • @idolwild_la THE SUN INSIDE YOU

Bukowski famously wrote “don’t do it / unless it comes out of / your soul like a rocket, / unless being still would / drive you to madness or / suicide or murder, / don’t do
It was such a joy getting to interview this wondrous, poignant book of poems by my dear friend @donnasmetz - we usually talk for hours about nothing, so we showed some restraint here. @poetry.la

Link in bio.
Can't wait to read at the Story Phile this Saturday!! Thank you for putting this together @leeboek !
Thank you Suzanne Lummis for this interview in Poetry Flash! What a thrill to be included among these amazing poets. 

Link in bio.
Honored to be in this company of amazing poets!! Hope to see you there!
So excited to be reading at @latimesfob next Sunday, 4/21, 4 pm, at the poetry stage!! The stage's line up is a dream!

Heartfelt thank you to the LA Times Festival of Books organizers and the dearest @elenakarinabyrne
This Sunday (4/7) 2 pm at Avenue 50 Studio, in person reading of the shortened version of Jack Smith's DC indictment. Performing this has never felt more timely. Hope to see you there!! #poetry #poetryla #poetryreading
Hello Time! Where did you go? #photodump #apoetslife
Tomorrow at 4 pm PST: The First Ever Zoom Reading of Jack Smith's D.C. Indictment (shorter version) Charging the Defendant with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Conspiracy against Rights (mine, ours, yours)
Hosted by Suzanne Lumm
March 14, 2024, 6 pm! Poets' ode to Golden Girls. We'll have something fun for you to sink your teeth into - besides the cheesecakes. #lapoetry #poetry #poetryreading
March 4, a week from tomorrow, I'll be at Next Chapter Books celebrating the release of Ivy Raff's wonderful new book! #lapoetry #poetry #poetryreading
This is me being a bad driver - taking a picture of the unusually green open road on the I-5 after excitiedly driving through a moving storm because the generous and great poet Gary Young asked that I visit his poetry class at UC Santa Cruz, allowing

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