Perhaps you’ve noticed. Literary art helps us to stay calm and engaged, to feel a sense of possibility as we process difficult truths, and to feel a sense of community. Join me!

 

In the new year I will be touring with my new book River Mouth: Poems. Please sign up for my email newsletter and I’ll send updates right to your mailbox. “These are enchantments in the most ancient and binding sense, naming songs that slow and repair our attention.” – Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, author of Boys Behind Glass

I host Eco Book Club at Literati Bookstore. Join us for our third-Monday-of-the-month conversations. On November 16, 2026, at 6:30 PM, upstairs, at Literati Bookstore (124 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, Michigan), we’ll discuss the very timely Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, by Kate Marvel. Our reading choices are informed by the climate, extinction, and land-abuse crises; environmental racism; and the need to foster a sense of possibility. Find a list of books we have read here. And click here to go to Literati Bookstore’s website.

The wonderful people at Poet Tree Town fill Ann Arbor with poems each year during Poetry Month (April). This year, they posted my poem, “We Are All Shell Shocked,” in the window of the downtown Ann Arbor District Library.