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Rocvkale Review Poetry Contest and Residency Award News

I am so pleased to announce that “Two Gardens” (from Berkeley Postcard, a collection of poems about my mother) has won the first Rockvale Writers’ Colony poetry contest on the theme of Time. “Two Gardens” will appear in Rockvale Review Issue Five (November 2019). The prize also includes a week-long residency at Rockvale Writers’ Colony. […]

A Butterfly Lantern for Querents

Here’s a recent sketch, using one of my favorite exercises from the Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing Workbook I’m working hard to finish this month. For this exercise, you draw three tarot cards in order to create a drawing of your own. The result is a synthesis drawing or tarot doodle, for which you bring […]

San Diego Writer’s Festival Interview with The Bold Poet

In celebration of the San Diego Writer’s Festival, Susan J. Farese of SJF Communications conducted interviews with participating authors. Here’s a link to the San Diego Writer’s Festival website where you can find the full schedule of events, all free and open to the public and held at the Central San Diego Public Library Saturday April 13, […]

Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing at AWP 2019

Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing projects and dreams. We dove deep into the heart of writing and soul questions in celebration of my Heart’s Compass Tarot […]

Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing News

Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions…your people, your family, your friends, your furries, your nature, your dreams.  I’m in love with my tarot writing adventures again and formally changing […]