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Tag: reading

A Love Poem for Pride Month

My poem, “She gave me COVID on our first date”, is out now on DC Pride Poems. This poem is pretty self-explanatory 😂. And […]

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June 10, 2026June 10, 2026

My book turns 10 this year!

I had a dream come true ten years ago. My book On that one-way trip to Mars was published in May 2016 — which is somehow a decade ago!

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May 25, 2026May 25, 2026
Poem in Your Pocket Day

Catch a falling poem, put it in your pocket

How to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day & upcoming readings The Mid-Atlantic Review is hosting a community reading and fundraiser this […]

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April 17, 2026April 16, 2026

Last flight for On that one-way trip to Mars

Sadly my first book, On that one-way trip to Mars, is now out of print. My publisher Bottlecap Press informed me that […]

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June 23, 2020June 23, 2020

Second annual D.C. Art Book Fair this weekend!

This weekend, Sunday, November 5, I’ll be tabling with my sister again at the second annual D.C. Art Book Fair from 12-5 p.m at […]

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November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

Reading in NYC

Earlier this month I ventured up to the Big Apple for a poetry reading. I was invited to read with several other […]

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November 30, 2016November 29, 2016

My book is on sale for the holiday weekend

Bottlecap Press, the publisher of my book “On that one-way trip to Mars,” has a 2015-2016 anthology available for a limited time […]

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November 25, 2016February 1, 2017

‘Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in’: Reading at Berl’s Poetry Shop

Song title lyrics always make good headlines, right? Well, on November 5 I’ll be asking Brooklyn and New Yorkers to take me […]

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October 7, 2016

The dreaded reading — and how not to suck at it

D.C. science fiction writer Tara Campbell recently wrote an article in the Washington Independent Review of Books encouraging silent writers to go […]

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February 29, 2016

Read this awesome book mostly on the plane ride home and then during the most painful cold/ear infection of my life, hence […]

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June 5, 2015March 11, 2016

Going analog after a digital summer

After 10 weeks of staring at computer screens and code for eight to 15 hours a day during my News21 Fellowship, I […]

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August 13, 2014March 11, 2016

Rereading “Fahrenheit 451”

Yesterday I reread “Fahrenheit 451.” It took me most of the afternoon, through the night. I read in the car, as my […]

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May 16, 2014March 11, 2016
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