   | So proud to have my book, Fairy Tale. available for purchase at Brazos Bookstore for the holidays! Delighted to be reading here again for WIVLA and the Houston Writers Guild! Please remember to support your local indie bookstores. #supportindiebookstores #wivla #hauntedholidays #ghostpoems #fairytale #houstonwritersguild #sablebooks  With special thanks to WIVLA's Melody Locke, here is a link to the WIVLA and Houston Writers Guild reading. My reading begins at the 29.18 time mark on the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A83grQr9bisClick here to view on YouTube. |
Gearing up for Verso Frontera. Look at all these fantastic authors I get to read with! Warmest thanks to Octavio Quintanilla (San Antonio Poet Laureate 2018-20) for inviting me to participate. It is an honor and a privilege to read for this festival! #sanantonio #ollu #versofrontera #texaspoetry #fairytale
 Thank you to the editors at EQUINOX (online art and poetry journal) for selecting my poem, "Roses and Cream," for their fall issue. This poem was inspired by, and dedicated to, my grandmother, Martha "Botch" Axley Irving. It is based on a true story.
Link: https://www.hotpoet.org/equinox #flappers #1920s #femmefatale #modelTford #axleyfamily #intothethicket #artandpoetry #equinox
Thank you to Cindy Huyser for featuring John Milkereit and I at the Book-Woman Reading. It is always a delight to work with Cindy, an honor to read for this bookstore, and a joy to share the stage once again with our good friend and fellow poet, John Milkereit. Warmest thanks to all who attended and special thanks to Book-Woman in Austin, Texas for hosting this event. #bookwoman #austinpoetryscene #fairytale #aplacecomfortablewithfire #cindyhuyser #johnmilkereit
Thank you to the editors of The Inflectionist Review for including me in this reading together with Allison Blevins and Joseph Kerschbaum. The reading will be on-line on Monday, August 28, 2023 at 5:00pm PST/7:00pm CDT. A Zoom link can be provided by preregistering for the event through Facebook's The Inflectionist Reading Series: https://www.facebook.com/events/2079386139069520 #inflectionism #theinflectionistreview   Warmest thanks to each and every one of you who came out to the Jung Center to celebrate my new book! I am so proud to have my new book at the Jung Center's Bookstore, and I am thrilled to be donating 100% of my proceeds from FAIRY TALE to the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center, because that's where some real magic is happening!!!! Sending love and gratitude to everyone of you who made this launch such a great success! #believeinmagic #fairytale #fairytalescometrue #fairytalepoems #magicpotions #medicineandmiracles #courageforthejourney #targetedtherapies #mdandersoncancercenter #mdandersoncancerresearch #cancerresearch #curecancer #nomorecancer #ros1 #ros1ders #jungcenterhouston #sablebooks Photo Credits: Ahmed Akeel (top) Renu Babu Hall (below) 
 I am delighted to be reading Monday, May 1st at Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston, TX) for Dos Gatos Press celebration of Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose. The event begins at 7:00pm. All are invited!!! Special thanks to Blue Willow Bookshop, David Meischen, and Scott Wiggerman for putting this event together. #flowerlegend #southwesttheme #bluebonnet #bluebonnetseason #prosepoem #prosepoems #prosepoetry #texaswildflowers #flowerpoems #flowerstories #southweststories #southwesttheme #southweststyle #dosgatospress #wildflowers #southwestlegend #comanchelegend #comanchelegends
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