I’m a poet and writer, and too often I have to fight for the time to do what’s important to me, to my identity, to my happiness. When I carve out time for the half marathon, I’m doing something that says my work is important. Marathoners, our work is important, the poems that fly and those that stumble. We learn when we stumble.

I’m looking forward to twelve hours of reading and writing poetry on September 2, 2023.