What I'm up to recently

community

helping host the Just This Writing and Zen weekly online writing sessions (last 15 years)

& co-editing Just This (an online magazine of the Zen Arts) 

mutual critique of poetry and fiction through Oklahoma City online poetry group, Austin Poetry Study             Group, and Space City Critters (through Armadillocon)

marketing 

Rock and Friends  hybrid poetry and flash collection, about the elementals Rock, Jackrabbit, Turtle,                 Coyote and the Kid

The Amulet (with Sheila Simonson) (a coming of age historical fantasy set in pre-Christian Ireland, about             Conn, who is the likely heir to the clan's kingship but on the run from rivals who want to kill him)

revising

a Zen poetry collection

Promised Land, a portal world speculative novel of two brothers (one raised in the clans and the other             kidnapped by a religious extremist group) who reunite and must defend themselves against attack

recent readings or presentations

Scissortail Writing Festival, Southeastern Oklahoma University, April, 2025, reading from Rock and                 Friends and in 2023

Wayfinding talk, July, 2025 Appamada Zen Center

Panel reading, Flash, People's Literary Festival, Corpus Christi, Texas 2023

poems recently published (2023-2025)

in 

Just This (multiple poems, essays, photos)

Texas Poetry Assignment (poems, interview) 

The Marble Block (poem)

Animal Tales (poem)

Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry: An International Anthology, ed. Jonas Zdanys. Lamar University Literary Press (3 poems)

Lone Star Poetry:Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief, eds. Laurence Musgrave and Milton Jordan. Kallisto Gaia Press (2 poems)