Art

Artistic passions: percussion and music, gardening, and performance poetry.

My favorite music demands your soul breathe deeper than you knew it could. A percussionist for 27 years, I am always open to playing with new musicians, and my band is currently searching for a bassist — feel free to contact me!

Gardening was my first career, and will always inform the way I move in the world. My favorite soil is an ecosystem gifting abundance that reminds you: what a part of many beings we are. Since 2022 I’ve been thrilled to organize with Soul Soil Collective Farm as we fundraise and search for farmland to buy near Baltimore. I look forward to collectively caring for land held in common for land-based healing, educational programming, and community building with BIPOC and trans*, NB, gender-expansive, and LGBQ folx.

My favorite poetry invites wholeness, no matter the cost. Poets: I’m always down to workshop, brainstorm, read to each other, free-write, mess with whatever we take for granted, find honesty where we least expect it, cultivate creativity. When I lived in Washington, DC, I hosted a monthly “Poetry Dinner” — a gathering of queer poets and those who appreciate queer poetry. Though I no longer have capacity to host a regular space in Baltimore, I miss it! Always grateful for invitations to connect.

Some of my poetry has profane language, and is very queer. If you’re cool with that, check out my album. Released 12/22/2016, Fairy Feather Files is a marimba and poetry adventure. (A track list notating explicit poems and poems that include content regarding my personal sexual experiences is here for anyone who wants a heads up.)

Here’s the text of some poetry. Because of my day job as a clinical psychologist, I censored all explicit sexual content of poetry posted on this site. I am very happy to share original work with you — please don’t hesitate to email me.