Word Perv
(noun): One who takes delight and is skilled at constructing, writing or saying naughty phrases or dialogue.
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September 28, 2023

Autumn is Here

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The end of September brought rain (from Tropical Storm Ophelia) and cool weather. I returned from Chicago, the most recent leg of my book tour and spend a whole week with my pups – hiking muddy trails and getting out

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July 8, 2023

Book Tour: July

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Well I am wildly late in posting this as we’re already a week into July! EEEKK!! It’s been busy but it’s about to get busier because I have a whole slew of readings this month including two in DC, three

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Last week my husband and I went to Iceland and celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. This trip was originally scheduled for May 2020 but was obviously cancelled when the pandemic shut down the world. Realizing we needed to use the

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March 16, 2023

Post-AWP Hangover

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Hello from my post-AWP hangover. I don’t drink but that doesn’t seem to matter at AWP as it’s 3-ish days of nonstop poetry / tabling / reading / chatting / everything. I arrived home at 1am on Monday morning, exhausted

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December 10, 2022

Journals of 2022

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It’s been one helluva year for writing for me. I won the Jack McCarthy book prize and wrote poems that are included in my forthcoming collection, Her Whole Bright Life. I spent two weeks in Crete, writing and soaking up

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