I am so excited to share this sweet collaboration with my magical sister and brilliant songwriter SJ Tucker. You know how the best songwriters are also poets? It’s like that. We have put together a journey from the depths of the river delta to the wind-swept, sun-washed expanses of the desert. Come join us! Sunday,…

I have news I am delighted to be able to share with you!  My second book, The Heart is a Muscle, a full-length volume of poetry about farming, resiliency, the complexity of love and loss, and everything else that happens in a human heart, will be released by Swimming with Elephants Publications in March 2020. …

I’ve had the good fortune to have several poems accepted for publication recently. I have a piece in the winter issue of the lovely Manzano Mountain Review The current issue of Anti Heroin Chic is on grief, and they graciously reprinted a poem from my book. And I will have two poems and a photograph…

I am pleased to announce that i am coordinating a new erotic poetry reading series at Self Serve! The first one will be Sunday, July 21st, 3:30-5pm. The second will be in late January, and we hope to keep it up every July and January thereafter, as long as the juice lasts. I have a…

I will be performing at Sunday Chatter on May 19th. The event is at 10 a.m. at Las Puertas, and tickets nearly always sell out in advance, so if you want to come, get yours today! https://www.chatterabq.org/product/may-19-2019/ I will have some new work, and some work from The Bones of This Land. This will be…

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve had some work accepted for publication recently. The newly formed Erotix Literary Journal of Somatics includes four of my pieces: “sluice,” “the silence shapes the rhythm,” “flame to ash,” and “when you fall.” Three of these were written at or in response to Body Trust workshops; the other is…

Gina Falcon and Swimming With Elephants Publications released this wonderful little trailer for my book: check it out!

Out in Print published a review of my book! Here’s an excerpt: Divided into two sections, “Everyone’s Father Dies of Something” and “Desert Solitaire,” the intent of this chapbook is clear from the outset. This will be about death, grief, and the aftermath of both. “This Aching Echo” lays out the specifics: you were fifteen…

Lisa Gill writes, Turn these pages and “the barrel jumps/ in your hand and the stock / kicks your shoulder.” Inside The Bones of This Land, you’ll find a love taut as cells on the brink of dividing. Whether cancer, death, compassion or even affection rips humans apart, we’re all gonna get there. As Heatherington…