"Don't use the telephone.
People are never ready to answer it.
Use poetry."
Jack Kerouac

I write, read, collect, and share poems as a way to enter a better conversation.

My first collection, At the Pool We’ve All Got Bodies came out in 2011, and was re-leased in 2020.

It’s currently available for purchase—drop me an email if you’re interested!

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”

Adrienne Rich
"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it’s an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it."

Dunya Mikhail
“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

Kathleen Norris
"Though it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear clearly and, as much as possible, without interruption, the voice of his or her mind, the voice that gathers, packs with meaning, and unpacks the language he or she knows. It can take a long time to learn to let this voice speak without getting in its way. This slow learning, the growth of this habit of inner attentiveness, is poetic development, and it is the substance of the poet’s art."

Craig Morgan Teicher
"For me poetry is a moment of awe—that silence that travels from one human body to another by means of words... This is what poetry is: not a kind of public posturing but a private language of music and imagery that is strange and compelling enough that it can speak privately to thousands of people at the same time."

Ilya Kaminsky

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”