Activities, Awards and Achievements

 

  • Speaker, Poetry in Motion Panel, WriterFest Nashville at Lipscomb University – November 21-22, 2019
  • Poetry Reader, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN – October 12, 2019
  • Workshop Leader, Rooted in your Words – Yoga and Writing Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony – October 4-6, 2019
  • Pushcart Nomination – Tule Review, Fall 2019, – “Welfare Office”
  • Pushcart Nomination – Synaeresis Arts + Poetry, Fall 2019 – “Facts about Lightning”
  • Poetry Reader, Decatur Book Festival, Local Poetry Stage @ Ammazza – August 30, 2019
  • Co-host, Black Dog Poetry Open Mic, a monthly open-mic series at Black Dog Book Co. – June 2019 – present
  • Speaker, poetry panel, Franklin Book Festival, Williamson County Library – June 1-3, 2019
  • Featured Poet at Poet’s Corner, Scarritt Bennett Center – May 23, 2019
  • Workshop Leader, Art and Writing Weekend Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony – April 5-7, 2019
  • Workshop Leader, Yoga and Writing Mini-Retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony – March 1-3, 2019
  • Best of the Net Finalist – Spring 2019 – “Calligraphy”
  • Speaker, River Talks, The Cumberland River Compact’s Educational Series – Using “rivers” as image and metaphor in poetry – February 7, 2019
  • Workshop Leader, Goals Retreat, Rockvale Writers’ Colony – January 2019
  • Workshop Leader, Poetry Retreat, Rockvale Writers’ Colony – December 2018
  • Opened Rockvale Writers’ Colony as Founder and Director- a writer’s residency and retreat facility in College Grove, TN – October 2018
  • Best of the Net Nomination – Mud Season Review, Fall 2018 – “Calligraphy”
  • Best of the Net Nomination – Sky Island Journal, Fall 2018 – “How to Spell America”
  • Pushcart Nomination – Ristau, A Journal of Being, Fall 2018 – “An Ending”
  • Pushcart Nomination – Sky Island Journal, Fall 2018 – “How to Spell America”
  • Poetry Reader, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN – October 12-14, 2018
  • Featured Poet, Poetry Hickory, NC, July 2018
  • Featured Poet, Poetry in the Boro, March 2018
  • Editor, Poetry in Motion, Metro Arts Anthology – Yes in My Backyard, Spring 2018
  • Pushcart Nomination – Oyster River Pages, Fall 2017 – “Visit from my Lost Child”
  • Pushcart Nomination – Sheila-Na-Gig, Fall 2017 – “Stillborn”
  • Poet for Poetry on Demand in conjunction with the Versify Podcast, Nashville Public Radio, 2017 -present
  • Poetry Judge for the 2017 Janice Keck Literary Award for Poetry
  • Founding Editor of the online poetry journal, Rockvale Review, July 2017 – present
  • Winner, Number One 11th Annual Poetry Contest, poem: “Fair Park” – April 2017
  • Creator and Director of an Ekphrastic Poetry Project involving 100 Tennessee poets responding to 100 international photographs, March 2017 – present
  • Winner, First and Second Prize and Excellence in Writing Award, Tennessee Mountain Writers, March 2017
  • Poetry Mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, Feb 2017 – present
  • Featured Poet, Lyrical Brew, Barnes and Nobles, Vanderbilt, June 2016
  • Featured Poet, Scarritt Bennett’s Poet’s Corner, February 2016
  • Featured Poet, Landmark Booksellers, November 2015
  • Poetry Reader at Southern Festival of Books – October 2015
  • Winner of the Janice Keck Literary Award for Poetry, 2014
  • Co-leader Nashville Poetry Salon, 2014 – present
  • Reader, Poets From the Neighborhood, Williamson County Public Access TV, 2014 – present
  • Poetry Reader, Southern Festival of Books, October 2013
  • Active in Nashville area Open-Mics – present