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A SAMPLING OF PODCAST GUEST SPOTS
Darken the Page Podcast Interview with Dave Booda - An exploration of the bardic traditions of embodied poetry.
Who Do You Think You Are? Ep. 4 - A dynamic conversation on women in zen, power, sex, and leadership.
The Infinite Weird with Matthew Sherling, Ep. 2 - a candid exploration of dreaming, waking, the mystical, the mythical, and how the weird informs the words on the page....& back on Ep. 61, talking Muses and God(s), etc.
& LIVE FEATURED POET SPOTS:
Spellbound Featured Poet (November 2025, St. Louis), Babler Poetry Society On the Road Series (Aug 2024, St. Louis); University of Missouri St. Louis MFA Graduate Reading Series (May 2024); Spine Bookstore Sunday Poetry Series (May 2024, St. Louis); Goodie House, St. Louis (Feb 2024, Oct 2022, St. Louis); St. Louis Poetry Center’s Poetry at the Point Reading Series (Apr 2023); The Blizwell Salon's Chamber of Music and Radness (Dec 2022, St. Louis); Matthew Sherling’s Hello, We Are Still Alive Reading Series (Jan 2018, Jun 2019, Los Angeles); Angel City Zen Center's Stand Up, Say Something! (Nov 2018, Los Angeles); See also Bard's Night Out & other projects below.
BONUS: A WEE HANDFUL OF PUBLISHED POEMS:
"Tankas on Love's Double" and "Waiting at the Well"
in Nine Mile Magazine, Vol 12 No 2. Spring 2025.
Darken the Page Podcast Interview with Dave Booda - An exploration of the bardic traditions of embodied poetry.
Who Do You Think You Are? Ep. 4 - A dynamic conversation on women in zen, power, sex, and leadership.
The Infinite Weird with Matthew Sherling, Ep. 2 - a candid exploration of dreaming, waking, the mystical, the mythical, and how the weird informs the words on the page....& back on Ep. 61, talking Muses and God(s), etc.
& LIVE FEATURED POET SPOTS:
Spellbound Featured Poet (November 2025, St. Louis), Babler Poetry Society On the Road Series (Aug 2024, St. Louis); University of Missouri St. Louis MFA Graduate Reading Series (May 2024); Spine Bookstore Sunday Poetry Series (May 2024, St. Louis); Goodie House, St. Louis (Feb 2024, Oct 2022, St. Louis); St. Louis Poetry Center’s Poetry at the Point Reading Series (Apr 2023); The Blizwell Salon's Chamber of Music and Radness (Dec 2022, St. Louis); Matthew Sherling’s Hello, We Are Still Alive Reading Series (Jan 2018, Jun 2019, Los Angeles); Angel City Zen Center's Stand Up, Say Something! (Nov 2018, Los Angeles); See also Bard's Night Out & other projects below.
BONUS: A WEE HANDFUL OF PUBLISHED POEMS:
"Tankas on Love's Double" and "Waiting at the Well"
in Nine Mile Magazine, Vol 12 No 2. Spring 2025.
ONGOING EVENTS
Blizwell Salons
With co-host Karin Bliznik, curate private spaces for performers to play with the edges of their craft in a supportive community of other artists. Salons have birthed many new collaborations and connections within the art community in St. Louis, where we both live. Coming soon to places like Austin, LA, New Orleans, Paris, & more!? If you're interested in a Salon in your city, reach out!
Poetry of Being Workshops
Following art back to source - a space for exploring creative language practice as a portal to the world under words. August 2025 in Boulder, CO. Online series forthcoming. With Robbie Carlton.
Creative Retreats
Every creative needs time and space to slow down, reflect, and explore edges of their art in a supportive community. In collaboration with other artists and meditation and healing arts practitioners, I design and co-host retreats around the world to deepen practice and awareness and creative potential. See e.g. Joshua Tree, winter 2025. Sign up for mailing list below for updates.
Poetry of Place Guided Walks
Experiential shows and workshops on foot to explore the relationships between language and landscape, presence and poetry, history and mythology, listening and praying. Past tours have included Oakland's famous cemeteries, the wild Cali seashores where the elk still roam, and the hidden walnut wilds of east Los Angeles. Currently exploring Missouri's land of confluences, and welcoming future collaborations with people deeply connected with their local landscapes.
Creative Coaching & Practice Groups
1:1 coaching to help you fuel your creative fire. I also have my fingers in a lot of different creative practice groups, and can work with small groups to launch new practice pods to support ongoing reflection and accountability to your craft. Reach out if interested!
With co-host Karin Bliznik, curate private spaces for performers to play with the edges of their craft in a supportive community of other artists. Salons have birthed many new collaborations and connections within the art community in St. Louis, where we both live. Coming soon to places like Austin, LA, New Orleans, Paris, & more!? If you're interested in a Salon in your city, reach out!
Poetry of Being Workshops
Following art back to source - a space for exploring creative language practice as a portal to the world under words. August 2025 in Boulder, CO. Online series forthcoming. With Robbie Carlton.
Creative Retreats
Every creative needs time and space to slow down, reflect, and explore edges of their art in a supportive community. In collaboration with other artists and meditation and healing arts practitioners, I design and co-host retreats around the world to deepen practice and awareness and creative potential. See e.g. Joshua Tree, winter 2025. Sign up for mailing list below for updates.
Poetry of Place Guided Walks
Experiential shows and workshops on foot to explore the relationships between language and landscape, presence and poetry, history and mythology, listening and praying. Past tours have included Oakland's famous cemeteries, the wild Cali seashores where the elk still roam, and the hidden walnut wilds of east Los Angeles. Currently exploring Missouri's land of confluences, and welcoming future collaborations with people deeply connected with their local landscapes.
Creative Coaching & Practice Groups
1:1 coaching to help you fuel your creative fire. I also have my fingers in a lot of different creative practice groups, and can work with small groups to launch new practice pods to support ongoing reflection and accountability to your craft. Reach out if interested!
Other Projects - Highlight Reel
The Bard's Night Out
With bard partner Henry Jack, this three-year San Francisco-based experiment focused on bringing poetry off the page and into the full multidimensional and cinematic embodiment that is possible when we invite body, subtle energy, community, and setting into the living poem. Our aim was to create a group experience of the interior of a poem as it can be felt only when we come together in transmitting and receiving as a collective field, not just individual minds. Salon-style performances - sometimes with musical accompaniment - were woven with group exercises to break the fourth wall, and followed by open mics where audience members could try on the bard role in the open field they had just helped to create.
A Journey into Embodied Poetry (Jan 2014), Circling the Poem (Aug 2014), The Paradox of Eros (Jan 2015), The Wood Element (Mar 2015), Around the Fire (Aug 2015), The Poetics of Gratitude (Nov 2015), Bard’s Night In (Jan 2016), Transitions (May 2016), The White Album (Oct 2016).
Collaborative Multi-modal Art Show Production
Weaving multiple art forms into interactive and curated performance experiences that help heal and build bridges through art - this is my JAM. See the program for Pilgrim 2016, for one example, or this 2022 EGG-themed piece from a show supporting reproductive rights and curated by Amy Granat, and check out Queen Kiddo to keep up with our latest "Chamber of Music and Radness" performance events.
Relational Meditation Games
From dusty domes at Burning Man to living rooms around the country, guiding groups into experiences of expanded and collective awareness through simultaneously tracking interior, intersubjective, and group dynamics at once - this is another JAM zone. Weaving authentic expression practices like Circling, T-group, World Work and Bohmian Dialogue with good old-fashioned meditation, eye contact, snacks and tea - raw perception and expression become the living poem, and you never know what kind of magic might arise. People often leave asking who spiked the tea - that's how potent the medicine of collective presence can be.
Language & Movement Workshops & Performance Pieces
With fellow world-work trained facilitators, have hosted theatre-style dialogues on sticky issues like gender and power. In collaboration with Dance Church Encinitas, designed movement workshops discovering and disrupting patterns in our listening and speaking to create living collective poems made of both body and words. And in collaboration with contact improv dancers and music improv artists in St. Louis, have been developing interactive performance pieces exploring language and movement as means of attachment healing - public performances coming soon!?
The Bard's Night Out
With bard partner Henry Jack, this three-year San Francisco-based experiment focused on bringing poetry off the page and into the full multidimensional and cinematic embodiment that is possible when we invite body, subtle energy, community, and setting into the living poem. Our aim was to create a group experience of the interior of a poem as it can be felt only when we come together in transmitting and receiving as a collective field, not just individual minds. Salon-style performances - sometimes with musical accompaniment - were woven with group exercises to break the fourth wall, and followed by open mics where audience members could try on the bard role in the open field they had just helped to create.
A Journey into Embodied Poetry (Jan 2014), Circling the Poem (Aug 2014), The Paradox of Eros (Jan 2015), The Wood Element (Mar 2015), Around the Fire (Aug 2015), The Poetics of Gratitude (Nov 2015), Bard’s Night In (Jan 2016), Transitions (May 2016), The White Album (Oct 2016).
Collaborative Multi-modal Art Show Production
Weaving multiple art forms into interactive and curated performance experiences that help heal and build bridges through art - this is my JAM. See the program for Pilgrim 2016, for one example, or this 2022 EGG-themed piece from a show supporting reproductive rights and curated by Amy Granat, and check out Queen Kiddo to keep up with our latest "Chamber of Music and Radness" performance events.
Relational Meditation Games
From dusty domes at Burning Man to living rooms around the country, guiding groups into experiences of expanded and collective awareness through simultaneously tracking interior, intersubjective, and group dynamics at once - this is another JAM zone. Weaving authentic expression practices like Circling, T-group, World Work and Bohmian Dialogue with good old-fashioned meditation, eye contact, snacks and tea - raw perception and expression become the living poem, and you never know what kind of magic might arise. People often leave asking who spiked the tea - that's how potent the medicine of collective presence can be.
Language & Movement Workshops & Performance Pieces
With fellow world-work trained facilitators, have hosted theatre-style dialogues on sticky issues like gender and power. In collaboration with Dance Church Encinitas, designed movement workshops discovering and disrupting patterns in our listening and speaking to create living collective poems made of both body and words. And in collaboration with contact improv dancers and music improv artists in St. Louis, have been developing interactive performance pieces exploring language and movement as means of attachment healing - public performances coming soon!?