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Check out the new beautiful website for Poetry.la (@poetry.la)!!
Next Friday (10/17/25), I'll be at @bblitarts celebrating the book launch of two amazing people and their works, @fergiebeat and @kathleenflorencepoet !! I personally can't wait!
Honored to have a poem in Los Angeles Review of Books! This became unintentionally timely with the recent passing of Jane Goodall.

@lareviewofbooks "Every day, the forest is a blank page we doodle on / with our foraging. And the night crumples
So excited to celebrate the book launch of @nicelle_davis - Penguin Noir! The event will be speakeasy-themed!

Where: Beyond Baroque (@bblitarts ), 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
When: Friday, September 12 @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: Free program
Hope to see you this Sunday (8/24/25) at 3 pm at @booksoup - I'll be reading with some amazing poets from this marvelous anthology put together by none other than Suzanne Lummis!!
What a joy and honor it was to interview the wondrous Elizabeth Metzger @nobodytoo2 for Poetry.la. Please check out the interview and give it a like!

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Thank you @bestcoastgreg for this thoughtful and fun interview!! Link in bio.

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Jeremy Ra is a force of nature, hilarious, talented, & allergic to dullness of any type, we don’t go too far back, but far enough that @hyperphan
Please join us for the launch of this marvel of a new book by @nicelle_davis at the @villagewellcc a week from now!!
This Wednesday at Page Against the Machine, reading with my dear @aruniwrites - hope to see you there!!

Thank you @tamaraevemadison for putting this together!
So excited for the launch of @nicelle_davis 's new book Penguin Noir! To celebrate, each poet in this fantastic lineup will be reading an original persona poem. 

Please register on Eventbrite for tickets and Zoom info!
This Friday at @bblitarts - this is going to be an amazing event!! Tickets on Eventbrite.
Looking forward to this exhibition at @515bendix where I'll have a collaborative piece showing with the incredible @mei_xian_qiu - so excited to see all the works!!
The video of @aruniwrites and my conversation is up on Poetry.la! We talk about our collaborative chapbook, God is a river running down my palm. What I love about this is that we really talk like this for hours on end, and it brings back sweet memori
Tomorrow!

Reposted @withregram • @caffeinatedcat Come to Heavy Manners in Echo Park on March 27th from 7-9 pm for a poetry reading you won’t want to miss. Jennifer Espinoza and Suzanne Lummis will be reading, in addition to other astoundi
So excited to be reading for the launch of @j.d.isip 's new collection! The awesome line-up includes (besides the star of the show and yours truly):

Anders Carlson-Wee
Charles Jensen
Daniel Romo
Denton Loving
Dustin Brookshire
Greg Lehman
Julie Kane
Reposted @withregram • @bblitarts Exciting News from Beyond Baroque Books! 
We’re thrilled to announce Poetry Goes to the Movies, a new anthology from our Pacific Coast Poetry Series imprint, edited by Suzanne Lummis! 
This collection brin
I had the honor of being one of the readers for this year's Tufts awards (do check out the awesome finalist lists!).

As part of its Spring Centennial Celebration, Claremont is holding a poetry reading at 10:30 where I'll be reading with past judges
So happy to see this wonderful anthology published! It was an honor getting to read and edit the works by such wonderful writers. Thank you @pegsdobreer for asking me to be a part of this process! 

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So grateful for this review of @aruniwrites and my chapbook by Aline Soules!!

What a nice way to emerge from hermitage. 

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Due to the wild fires, this reading is postponed. Stay safe everyone and have an evacuation plan if you're near the fires!

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