I had a lovely time reading in the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series in D.C. this past Sunday. The reading took place at the the Nature Center at the Rock Creek Park, a park that is part of the National Park Service and so it was the second time I’ve read at a NPS venue, the first time four years earlier when I was the poet-in-residence at the Herbert Hoover Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa doing research for my dissertation. It was lovely to be in the woods after having the opportunity to be in the city. My co-readers where the 2013 Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Award winners and many of the poets I met before and after the reading had books by The Word Works press, a local press to D.C.

I had the opportunity to read two poems from Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, from Farm Hands, Unclose the Door, and my first book Sprung, and a poem from my Pudding House chapbook Ghost Girl.

I’ll post the rest of the videos to Youtube once I return home. It was a lovely event! Thank you Rosemary!