Writing Portfolio
Live Poetry
Chalk & Cheese Fest: Typewriter Poetry
Free misspellings and magic! Chalk & Cheese Fest is an annual outdoor chalk art, food, and music festival. Every year, it brings together nationally recognized artists and emerging, local creators for a shared day of creativity. Free poetry on demand brought to you by Ripple Artspace and PATH: Platteville Arts, Trails, and History Project
August 2026 |Platteville, WI
Dubuque Rendezvous, Fire Program
June 2026 |Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
Pride in the Park
Community poem
Opened for Madison's Perfect Harmony Chorus, Madison’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally tenor and bass choir.
June 2026 |Platteville, WI
Dubuque Area Writers Guild (DAWG): Nature Anthology Release Party
Selected anthology poems
DAWG is an organization dedicated to fostering community among writers in the Dubuque area.
June 2026 |River Lights Bookstore, Dubuque, IA
Interesting Marks; Interesting Times
In collaboration with the artwork of Jac Tilton: From the Driftless Anthology: My grandmother was an unwanted child
March 2026 |Voices Studios Dubuque, IA
Dubuque Area Writers Guild: Migrants Anthology Release Party
From the Driftless Anthology: My grandmother was an unwanted child poem
2025 | River Lights Bookstore Dubuque, IA
Driftless: an anthology of voices from where we live
My grandmother was an unwanted child poem
July 24, 2025 | Republic of Letters Books, Mineral Point, WI
October 18, 2025 | Ripple Artspace (formerly Rountree Gallery), Platteville, WI
November 12, 2025 | River Lights Bookstore Dubuque, IA
LunART Festival - Resilience
Precipice (10:42 - 13:26) poem
2021 | Madison, WI
LunART Festival - The Woman Is Powerful
International Women's Day Celebration
Mother's Day + new poems
March 8, 2020 | Buttonhill Music Studio, Mineral Point, WI
*The last gathering space/event/social occasion I enjoyed before the pandemic lockdown hit!
3 Flat Fest
New poems collections
2019, 2017
BobFest
Dear Bob Dylan poem + performed a remix of select Bob Dylan poems
2013 | Spring Green, WI
Touring Shows
Self-published poetry chapbooks
2012-2013 | Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota
No Coast Slam Team
2010 | Lincoln, NE
Free misspellings and magic! Chalk & Cheese Fest is an annual outdoor chalk art, food, and music festival. Every year, it brings together nationally recognized artists and emerging, local creators for a shared day of creativity. Free poetry on demand brought to you by Ripple Artspace and PATH: Platteville Arts, Trails, and History Project
August 2026 |Platteville, WI
Dubuque Rendezvous, Fire Program
- Catching Fire poem
- Too Much poem
June 2026 |Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
Pride in the Park
Community poem
Opened for Madison's Perfect Harmony Chorus, Madison’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally tenor and bass choir.
June 2026 |Platteville, WI
Dubuque Area Writers Guild (DAWG): Nature Anthology Release Party
Selected anthology poems
DAWG is an organization dedicated to fostering community among writers in the Dubuque area.
June 2026 |River Lights Bookstore, Dubuque, IA
Interesting Marks; Interesting Times
In collaboration with the artwork of Jac Tilton: From the Driftless Anthology: My grandmother was an unwanted child
March 2026 |Voices Studios Dubuque, IA
Dubuque Area Writers Guild: Migrants Anthology Release Party
From the Driftless Anthology: My grandmother was an unwanted child poem
2025 | River Lights Bookstore Dubuque, IA
Driftless: an anthology of voices from where we live
My grandmother was an unwanted child poem
July 24, 2025 | Republic of Letters Books, Mineral Point, WI
October 18, 2025 | Ripple Artspace (formerly Rountree Gallery), Platteville, WI
November 12, 2025 | River Lights Bookstore Dubuque, IA
LunART Festival - Resilience
Precipice (10:42 - 13:26) poem
2021 | Madison, WI
LunART Festival - The Woman Is Powerful
International Women's Day Celebration
Mother's Day + new poems
March 8, 2020 | Buttonhill Music Studio, Mineral Point, WI
*The last gathering space/event/social occasion I enjoyed before the pandemic lockdown hit!
3 Flat Fest
New poems collections
2019, 2017
BobFest
Dear Bob Dylan poem + performed a remix of select Bob Dylan poems
2013 | Spring Green, WI
Touring Shows
Self-published poetry chapbooks
2012-2013 | Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota
No Coast Slam Team
2010 | Lincoln, NE
Published work
Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We Live
2025 | Little Creek Press | two poems
Publication: Voice of the River Valley
May, 2013 issue | poem
Kusaka
Publication: Tiny House Magazine
Issue 18 | article
I Am Home: what hitchhiking, bodywork & tiny house adventures taught me about sanctuary
Publication: Braille Monitor
article
A Vision for the Future
2025 | Little Creek Press | two poems
Publication: Voice of the River Valley
May, 2013 issue | poem
Kusaka
Publication: Tiny House Magazine
Issue 18 | article
I Am Home: what hitchhiking, bodywork & tiny house adventures taught me about sanctuary
Publication: Braille Monitor
article
A Vision for the Future
Self-published work
Poetry Chapbooks (2012-2013)
Back in my poetry chapbook days, I had foundations of a tiny house dream being built through artwork and community. I raised enough money from shows to buy a 17' flatbed trailer. After spending a year hitchhiking around America and working on organic farms, I dreamt of building my own tiny house on wheels. While my dreams eventually changed, the trailer continued on with its own story.
I passed the trailer, and all the construction materials I'd salvaged through the years, to an architect student who grew up in one of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses. Archie, in search of a unique hands-on learning experience and class project, transformed the trailer and materials into its tiny house destiny.
- Wandering Toes
- God.ess.ence
- Secret Abundance
- Luna
Back in my poetry chapbook days, I had foundations of a tiny house dream being built through artwork and community. I raised enough money from shows to buy a 17' flatbed trailer. After spending a year hitchhiking around America and working on organic farms, I dreamt of building my own tiny house on wheels. While my dreams eventually changed, the trailer continued on with its own story.
I passed the trailer, and all the construction materials I'd salvaged through the years, to an architect student who grew up in one of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses. Archie, in search of a unique hands-on learning experience and class project, transformed the trailer and materials into its tiny house destiny.
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