Shedding Some Skin

Always a new layer to discover…

Aside from the Chinese Year of the Snake moving to the Fire Horse and January dumping a few feet of snow into February, my widow self has been trying to make the season of hell days (holidays) move faster. And here we are.

Thankfully, Suzi Banks Baum and her Advent Dark Journal winter workshop reignited my creativity.

Gratefully, my local writing community is alive and well.

Upcoming

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6: Calling All Poets Series

2 Poem/5 min Open Mic follows Features. Zoom room opens at 6:30, readings start at 7:00. Streamed LIVE on Facebook.
Michael Hettich
Josephine LoRe
Juan Pablo Mobili

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2026, 3:00 PM ET Natasha Williams at our local Barnes and Noble in Kingston.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 6-7 PM Blue Heron Books presents ‘Eros, Again, Now’: A Celebration of Erotic Poetry

Featuring Elena Bell, Irena “Namyrah” Nayfeld, Tina Barry, and Lisa St John (THAT’S ME!)

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14th, 2026 at 2 pm Woodstock Poetry Society Featured Reading and Open Mic

Virtual AND in person with Tina Barry and Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 6-7:30 pm EST Gleam Issue 10 launch and reading.

Featuring (among many others) Tina Barry and Lisa St John (THAT’S ME!) https://uwyo.zoom.us/j/92770483186

et cetera

Congrats
to Angela Grout from YWrite, getting into the International Business Journal. I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Angela in 2024. The YouTube Link is HERE.

Joyful
to continue my “Kitchen Table MFA” with The Stone Ridge Library at their One Chapter at a Time book study of Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas

Excited
to attend Pádraig Ó Tuama’s “Poems of Longing” weekend workshop at Hutton Brickyards, Feb 26-Mar 1. One of my favorite writers! (I am BEYOND thrilled.)

Honored
to attend the Masters Workshop of the Tucson Festival of Books, March 15-17. My memoir excerpt was a finalist in the nonfiction category of the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards competition. I’ll be working with award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle (how amazing is THAT!?)