Under the auspices of my position as Chair of my spiritual community's National Cultural Wing, SICA-USA, for 15 months...
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West Seattle Workshop (15-APR-2022)
Thanks to the efforts of my publisher Koon Woon and Goldfish Press, I have been awarded a grant from Poets &...
SICA-USA Poems for Peace
Andrew Hall and Adelia MacWilliam are two people helping me curate a series of...
Galactic Travel in Rainier Beach
What a delight to see the careful unveiling of community in this neighborhood where Bhakti and I have lived for over 4...
Haibun de la Serna World Tour
Now that Haibun de la Serna, my latest book of poems, is out, it is time to launch the HdlS WORLD TOUR to promote it....
Haibun de la Serna Published
I am delighted to announce today that a book I finished ten years ago has just been published by Koon Woon's Goldfish...
Fred Wah on The Simple, Serial Form and MHT
It has been over a decade since I first began to try to get Fred Wah to sit down and have an interview about his (now)...
Wildlife of the Underworld (Plants & Poetry Journal)
I'm delighted to have a couple of FLEXIBLE MIND poems in the new book from Plants & Poetry Journal, Wildlife of...
Ode to Bill Turner
I was very saddened to hear about the death of NW painter William Turner. He died at age 81 on Christmas Eve. I felt...
Some 2021 American Sentences & Other Poems
I made it to Clatskanie, Oregon, birthplace of Raymond Carver, to have a writing retreat in a cabin on an organic...
Cascadia, Water, Compassion
Each day after Bhakti and I have our morning beverage (a matcha latté for me,...
FLEXIBLE MIND THIS CLOUD IS A LIFE
I have been fortunate to facilitate online workshops since Fall 2020. It is one of the great personal developments of...