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I want everyday people, non-poets, those who do not have a PhD to be able to read a ONE ART poem and find some kind of takeaway.

Inaugural Poet Laureate for Onondaga, in Central New York State.

Our mission is to seek out, study, and collect the work of early and contemporary writers, storytellers, and artists and to publish, disseminate, and present that work through publications and educational and public programs for the larger community.

Shiversong ... that feeling you get when you read a lyrical line in a poem so haunting that it gives you goosebumps.

I’m tempted toward gothic modes and drawn to characters who are wrestling with varying degrees of abjectness.

I love writing about art and see myself as a visual thinker.

The women I paint are always portrayed not just for their physical beauty but to emphasize their complexities, challenges, strengths and vulnerabilities.

... the dreamy interiority of the poets I loved felt like an untouchable refuge.

I enjoy rooms full of bright faces of all ages.

I realized that when you focus on one person, when you narrow the lens, it deepens the story.