Upcoming Readings
  • 8 March 2008: Colorado Language Arts Society, Writing Workshop
  • 26 March 2008: American University, Washington DC
  • 3 April 2008: Boulder Book Store, with Marilyn Krysl, 7.30pm
  • 9 April 2008: Eastern Connecticut State University
  • 19 April 2008: Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, Alabama
  • 23 April 2008: The Writers Place, Kansas City, sponsored by UMKC
  • 24 April 2008: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Crab Orchard Series Reading.
  • 1 May 2008: Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. 7pm.
  • Contact
    If you would be interested in engaging me for a reading, talk, lecture, school and class visit, or workshop, please contact me by e-mail at readings@... or call me at 303-556-8828.


    Recent readings:
    Georgia State University
    University of West Georgia
    Auburn University
    University of Northern Colorado
    Colorado State University
    Alabama Writers Symposium
    Art Aloud, KGNU Radio, Boulder and Denver, Colorado
    Book Buffs, Denver, Colorado
    Colorado State University, Pueblo
    Poet's House, Campbell Corner Prize reading
    Sewanee Writers Conference
    Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium
    University of Montevallo
    Listen
    Some samples of me reading, each in mp3 format at 128kbps:
  • "Hush," from Murder Ballads
  • "Otis Arrives," from Oxford American
  • "The Rolling Stones, Twix-N-Tween"
  • "To the Unconverted (United States of Barbecue)"
  • "Walt Whitman in Alabama," from Murder Ballads
  • Recent workshops and educational residencies
    Denver Writing Project
    Littleton High School, Littleton, Colorado.
    Falcon Bluffs High School, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
    East High School, Denver, Colorado.
    North High School, Denver, Colorado.
    Northglenn High School, Northglenn, Colorado.
    PlatteForum (gallery for kids), artistic resident, April 2005.
    Wallace State Community College, Dothan, Alabama.
    West High School, Denver, Colorado.
    Write Connection, University of Montevallo.
    Recent public lectures
    Barbecue (with demonstration and tasting), at Mixed Taste, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)
    Cajun Cuisine (with demonstration and full dinner for 150), at Mixed Taste, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)
    Charles Mingus, School of Music Reform series, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)
    Murder Ballads, at Mixed Taste, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)
    Single-Malt Scotch (with tasting), at Mixed Taste, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)
    T. S. Eliot, at Mixed Taste, sponsored by TheLab at Belmar (contemporary art center)