“My hope for you is that you find what makes your life abundant.
Here’s to living an authentic and generous life.”

 

 

 Upcoming

• December 12, 2019 – Speaker, Women’s National Book Association, Nashville Chapter
• December 19, 2019 – Featured Poet, Poetry in the Boro, 7:00 pm, Walnut House, Murfreesboro
• January 3-5, 2020 – Host and Workshop Leader, Grit, Guts, and Goals – Setting a New Course for your Writing – Weekend Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• January 26 – Feb 1, 2020 – Kahihi’s Kaua’i Writing Residency, Hawaii
• February 7-9, 2020 – Host, The Artist’s Way Weekend Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• April 11, 2020 – Featured Poet, Rivertown Reading Series, Paducah, KY
• April 17, 2020 – Featured Poet, Wordstream Poetry Reading, Knoxville, TN
• July 25, 2020 – Featured Poet, Gestalt Poetry Open Mic, Nashville, TN
• September 11-13, 2020 – Workshop Leader, The Artful Writer, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR
• November 2020 – Featured Artist, Brentwood Library Art Exhibit, Brentwood, TN

 

Past Events

• December 10, 2019 – Featured Poet, Black Dog Poetry Open Mic, Nashville
• November 21-22, 2019 – WriterFest at Lipscomb University
• November 12, 2019 – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic
• October 11-13, 2019 – Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN – Saturday, October 12, 3:00 pm, poetry panel
• October 8, 2019 – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic at Black Dog Book Company
• October 4-3, 2019 – Rooted in your Words – Yoga and Writing Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• September 20-22, 2019 – What If . . . A Retreat for Women Writers at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• September 13-15, 2019 – In the Name of the Land – Nature Writing Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• September 10, 2019 – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic, Nashville, TN
• August 30, 2019 – Decatur Book Festival, 12:00 p.m. Local Poetry Stage @ Ammazza
• August 13, 2019 – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic, Nashville, TN
• July 9, 2019 – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic, Nashville, TN
• June 1-3, 2019 – Franklin Book Festival, Williamson County Library, Poetry Panel, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.
• May 23, 2019 – 7:00 p.m. – Featured Poet at Poet’s Corner, Scarritt Bennett Center
• May 4-5, 2019 – Memoir Retreat – Weekend retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• April 9, 2019 – 7:00 p.m. – Black Dog Poetry Open Mic – Open mic at Black Dog Book Co. 4006 Granny White Pike, Nashville
• April 5-7, 2019 –  Art and Writing Weekend Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• March 1-3, 2019 – Yoga and Writing Mini-Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
• February 9-10, 2019 – Curiouser and Curiouser: Mindfulness for the Creative Writer -Mini- retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony, College Grove, TN
• February 7, 2019 – Noon – River Talks, The Cumberland River Compact’s Educational Series – I’ll be talking about using “rivers” as image and metaphor in poetry. Location: The Cumberland River Compact, located on the 3rd floor of the Bridge Building, 2 Victory Ave, Nashville, TN 37213.
• October 12-14, 2018 – Reading Poetry at Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN – Visit the booth of Rockvale Writers’ Colony at the Festival too! We’d love to meet you!

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