What if every word that flows out of your pen or your mouth actually needs to leave your body and enter the ears and heart of someone who needs them?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve written about every single thing that has ever happened to me. Sometimes, a poem is born. Other times, it is much more complicated. Here are some of the places I’ve shared those stories.

You can also read weekly personal essays over at my Substack.

Poems

Pacified — winner of the River Run Poetry Prize

They Say That By Writing in Metaphor, You Can Hide From The Truth — The Shore

How To Charm and Snake and Other Magic Tricks + Jeremy Allen White Aint Got Shit on Me — Rat’s Ass Review

On Earning The Moon + Basic Tantric B*tch — Bare Back Magazine

My Therapist Tells Me + A Tired Nurse — Mania Magazine

Clean Hands — Breath & Shadow, Ability Maine

Heirloom — Button Poetry, Metaphor Dice Anthology (buy)

In Opi’s Kitchen - Lines & Stars Magazine

Death Bed Art + A Pause, A Sprint - 2River View

Milkshake - Block Party Magazine

Haunted House (after Maggie Smith) — Sage & Cigarettes

Squeeze — Ink & Marrow

Amma, a contrapuntal — Gyroscope Magazine

They Say, a sonnet — Minison Magazine

Big — Anti-Heroin Chic

Outside Union Station + Buying My Father’s House Bear Paw Art’s Journal

Cracked + Closer to MyselfWriters for Recovery

In the Sky, With Diamonds + I Left For The Coast on a ThursdaySky Island Journal

Perpetually Single and Waiting (In A Coffee Shop) + Gifts from Jon — Quail Bell

Media & Podcasts

Sparkly Purple Unicorns MoMondays Keynote

Author Interview CTV News

My conversation with Mark Groves

My interview with The NoMo Book Club

My conversation with Najwa Zebian

Talking abortion with Amanda Star Kingsley

My interview on The Pages of a Story Podcast

Writing habits with The Improvement Project Podcast

A writer’s life with The No Schedule Man Podcast

Talking death with We Are All Dying Part 1 & Part 2

Finding Love in the Chaos of Life Podcast

In a past life…

The Free Food Fund

The Forest City Cookbook

Cooking with Quinoa