Welcome to my Creative Studio!
Analogue Forever Magazine’s TOP 40 Analog Photographs of 2023
I am thrilled that Analog Forever Magazine editor Lisa Toboz chose my cyanotype image, “Chicago Fog,” as a finalist for The Top 40 Analog Photographs of 2023.
Poem "If There Is A Center, No One Knows Where It Begins"
The obsidian morning.
I hurl my heart out
into this incomprehensible starscape
and there it will reside a burning fire orb,
blazing and consumed
by the intensity of its aliveness.
Poem "It Makes All the Difference"
She is lounging on a pool float
but not swimming.
no one has used that long-handled net scoop
and the dead bugs are floating
like show girls in leotards
fallen from their trapeze,
now suspended by a safety net of green murk.
Poem "Illustrious for Brief Moments"
Illustrious for Brief Moments
Today is another chance
to be fully alive,
present in the What
Is — the light and dark embodied,
the movement from dreaming
to waking dreams — all of it
the same mysterious fabric.
Satchel Story Objects: A Visual and Literary Arts Exhibition
"Satchel Story Objects" runs Aug. 19th - Sept. 30 2022 at the Cortez Cultural Center in Cortez, CO.
This is a collaborative exhibit with artist Sonja Horoshko funded by an Individual Artist Grant from The National Endowment for the Arts through Colorado Creative Industries. The project explores the theme of human migration stories handed down through familial objects.
Exhibit Extended!! First Exhibit of "Paper Wings" Letterpress Artist Prints and Hand-bound Manuscripts at Turquoise Raven Gallery, Cortez, CO thru 12/6/21
The first exhibit of “Paper Wings” is up from Thursday, November 18th through Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at The Turquoise Raven Gallery in lovely Cortez, CO.
Canyon Time Broadside from Talking Gourds Bardic Trails Event
Many thanks to Daiva Chesonis at Between the Covers Bookstore in Telluride, CO for creating this broadside of my poem Canyon Time.
Artist Rosie Carter provided the drawing. Rosie and I have been working together on pairing poems with her drawings around the theme of “geoligical time” for a while now. The idea started with the intention to create broadsides and has shifted to include ideas for prints with letterpress elements, maybe a small book. Being that we are both occupied with many other projects, it has been as slow as geological time in terms of ruminating, shifting, and evolving ideas and actually getting to production. I am enjoying the slow ease of it, which feels congruent with the theme. When Daiva asked for content for this broadside, I passed on something Rosie and I had been working with and I like the end result.
Renee Podunovich set to read at Oct 5th, 2021 Bardic Trails Zoom poetry series
Join me Tuesday, Oct 5th at 7pm MT for a free online poetry reading.
I will be reading from new and older works.
You can register for this event at this link through the Telluride Wilkinson Library.
Dreamdrift and Star Rain : free verse poetry about disappearing into space
A continuum of awareness
in the enormous evolving unknown,
where larger patterns hide in a sea of changing conditions,
the constellations are my momentary still points
and where I anchor
— it is my own choice —
I am beyond obligations:
refuse to be needed or summoned!
Notes From the Shore - Prose Poetry
We are water; we are stone; we are solid and fluid. We are bursting rays uncontainable, yearning to escape the milky prison of consumer numbness —we try to remember— inside the heliographic night, inside yoga studios and juice bars, inside workshops and self-help, looking for something inside, looking for trails of invisible wonder through the city’s slumber, searching deep in the bones of skyscrapers, between the ribs of excess, picking at the toxic leftovers of the brilliance of industry.
Water Will Find You (because you belong here)
I am in a new current; I accept this baptism by whirlwind, this walk into expanses so endless it is like stargazing. snow from distant mountain ranges travels beside me though its path is elusive in this bone-dry vastness, and that moisture is never easy to discover. through Sage, Juniper and Yucca tangled into a tapestry of peculiar geological mishaps—I travel so far that I am suddenly small and unknown but somehow at home; how awe is simply the sudden recognition of place, a sense of belonging to the vastness you had forgotten.
Rewilding: A Return to the Writing Life
I left my writing studio in 2012 after 15 years of creative reverie in the SW Four Corners region of CO and moved to a newly booming but still easy to live in city. I just wanted a break from the creative deep dive and the endless expanse of the Colorado Plateau. I wanted to play in an urban setting; I wanted to be new.
It is the Wild in the Pink: Poetic Essay on Eudaimonia ( A Flourishing Life)
In response to a writing prompt from Literary Impulse on “Eudaimonia”.
In the best moments, I know I belong in this universe, in this life,
and can flow with ever-shifting meaning and constant change.
Adventures in Letterpress: Ready, Set…Type Setting
Creating Fine Art Prints and Hand-bound Artist’s Books on a 100-year-old Platen Press