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For almost 30 years, I’ve been involved in arts and education around the Winona area, as a poet, musician, teaching artist, and (now retired) educator. My wife and I moved to Milwaukee in 2022, drawn by the magnetic pull of young grandchildren. By staying involved with RAA, I hope to maintain Winona connections, with a little help from technology and my aging Honda.

In one of my earliest memories, my mother explained to me that poems are like music, but changed into words. From grade schoolers through college students, I love reading poems and presenting workshop sessions to young writers—please let me know if a school or program in your area could use a visiting poet! 

My new chapbook, Mutual Life, is due out in Summer, 2023 from Finishing Line Press. The poems form one version of everyday life during the tumultuous past few years, with family and community ties strained to the breaking point by Trumpism, pandemic anxiety and climate crisis. My title comes from lines by William Stafford: “We could fool each other, but we should consider, / lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.”

Individual poems of mine can be found in print and online journals, including recent issues of Briar Cliff Review, Prairie Schooner, RockPaperPoem, River Styx, Nimrod International Journal, Willawaw Journal, and Talking Stick. I’ve been a Pushcart Prize and Best of Net nominee, a Faust Sonnet Contest winner, and a contributor to two recent anthologies, Sheltering with Poems: Community and Connection during COVID (Bent Paddle, 2021), and Stronger than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (Cave Moon, 2021). My first collection, Empty-handed (Emergence Chapbook Prize, 2013), should be back in print soon, according to Red Dragonfly Press. 

I am also a veteran roots musician and songwriter, having performed at coffeehouses, Farmer's Markets, pizza farms, and festivals throughout the Driftless Zone as a member of the Beef Slough Boys, Northern Shoveler and Turkey Creek. These days, I am mostly playing solo, and would love to find opportunities to perform heirloom country classics and organic originals again at Bluff Country venues.