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Upcoming appearances for my poetry collection Playthings:

Sunday, Oct. 11 at 10:30am with Cynthia Barger at the Boston-area Yetzirah salon (location is shared after you RSVP using the link).

Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 pm with Rosemary Herbert at The Silver Unicorn in Acton, Mass.

Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 7pm with Richard Hoffman at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Mass.

Past appearances:

Friday, March 6 at 10am at the Yetzirah table at the AWP Bookfair in Baltimore.

Friday, March 6 at 12pm at the Finishing Line Press table at the AWP Bookfair in Baltimore.

Thursday, March 26 at 7pm at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.

Thursday, April 9 at 7:30pm at the Arlington Author Salon in Arlington, Mass.

Sunday, April 12 at 2pm at Remnant Brewing Satellite in Cambridge, Mass.

Thursday, April 16 at 7pm at Phinista Cafe in Cambridge, Mass.

Wednesday, May 13 from 6-9pm at The Sea Hag in Cambridge, Mass.

Monday, June 1 on the “Art of Poetry” TV show. Watch it here!

Saturday, July 18 at the ArtBeat festival in Somerville, Mass.

I’m excited to share that my poetry collection Playthings is available at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop (est. 1927) in Harvard Square, where I’ll be reading with Richard Hoffman on Wednesday, January 20 at 7pm.

Pictured here: a copy in the store’s front window!

You can buy a hard copy in person or order it from the Grolier on Bookshop.org. The book is also available on Amazon (though prices and availability often fluctuate). It can also be purchased at any upcoming event where I’m reading.

I’m thrilled to share that Publishers Weekly has selected Playthings as an Editor’s Pick. The reviewer really “got” the book, and understood both its poetic antecedents and aesthetic aims. I will cherish for the rest of my days the comparisons to Robert Frost and John Ashbery, as well as the review’s introduction of me as “author of subversive bildungsroman Zinsky the Obscure.” The rewards of a life in the arts aren’t always evident from day to day; but this was one day when they were!

Thanks to John Mulrooney, Bill Marx, and the team at The Arts Fuse for featuring my poem “Shriving” on The Arts Fuse!

It was an honor to appear on the “Art of Poetry” show and discuss Playthings with poets Frank Crowley (host of the program), Sandra Yannone (poet laureate of Old Saybrook, Connecticut), and Victor Urbanowicz (expert on Ursula K. Le Guin among other subjects). You can watch the video here! I enjoyed meeting Frank, Sandra, and Victor, and having a wide-ranging conversation about poetry in general and our new books in particular. Sandra’s new book is Fire at the Big Top, and as a fan of circus-themed art I can’t wait to dive in. Songs from The Wild, The Innocent, the E Street Shuffle start playing in my head, mixed with some “Tunnel of Love” by Dire Straits.

My thanks to the Cerebral Girl in a Redneck World blog for her wonderful review of Playthings in poetic form! You can read it here.