More Letter Than News

Slow down, slow down

April 30, 2025

Hello friends, I missed newslettering in March. I nearly missed April. It’s been that kind of spring. At least spring is finally here. In this newsletter:...

story, edits, how am i, what helps

February 6, 2025

Hello friends. It’s currently near-whiteout snowing outside. I remember winters like these; I loved them as a child. They are more complicated as an adult...

It's 2025, or something: stories, reading, writing

January 6, 2025

Hi everyone, Happy(?) new year. We survived 2024. May the same be said for 2025, which still feels like a sci-fi number. Possibly every year from here out...

Filming: Finished!

November 4, 2024

Hello dear hearts, Let’s have “Mercy” by Pilot Speed as our soundtrack this time, because oh goodness, “I’m so tired / I’m so wired / and it’s not enough to...

Call for Poets! Queer crip spec poetry

October 30, 2024

I'm editing a round-robin poetry-in-conversation anthology of queer/trans disabled speculative poetry!! For more detailed information on the process,...

More filming, a virtual dance class, call for poets soon

September 27, 2024

Hello friends! Suddenly, everything! In this newsletter: upcoming virtual queer dance classupcoming call for poetsupdates and photos from filming (halfway...

Performing Again

August 12, 2024

Hello friends, It’s August! What happened to summer? How are we here? Why are the crabapples already red? Short(ish) & sweet one about developments for A...

Spring, or maybe summer

May 31, 2024

Hello friends, Here we are, in spring, or maybe summer already. In this email: hope(-ful/-less)ness and what remainsdance updates and photostwo poemssome...

Now we're on buttondown!

March 13, 2024

Hi friends, Same newsletter new host - now on buttondown. I was able to import my subscribers and even old posts, so hopefully this will be seamless for you...

Care and despair and a lullaby

December 6, 2023

Me: what social media I still have doesn’t really seem to be working out for me anymore Me: at least the newsletter is going well, I guess I’ll focus my...

sweater weather! (+ teaching next week)

October 11, 2023

Hello friends, Autumn's here! Easy song choice: "Autumn's Here", Hawksley Workman. In this letter, we have: fun with anatomy teaching and event news...

Potions and Newts

August 25, 2023

Hi friends, Short one this month! A little ditty: "Littlest Birds" by The Be Good Tanyas. An exciting visitor to the garden - a red eft!! This is the...

This One's Mostly Flowers

July 18, 2023

Hello readers, Currently in Vermont we are back-to-backing wildfire smoke haze and severe thunderstorms. My house is ok, flood-wise, but lots of Vermont is...

Wheels, woods, words

June 21, 2023

Happy Solstice, friends. The wheel of the year turns. In this newsletter we have: words in the woods stories I've read recently that will give you a good...

Poems Soon In A Woods Near You (Maybe)

May 16, 2023

Hello! It's May! Spring is here in my garden. The perennial bed I built up last year is starting to look like an actual garden rather than empty dirt with...

Flowers, a story, and seasons

April 11, 2023

Hello friends, March: in like a lion, out like a whoops we're partway through April already? In this newsletter: a new story some things I've been reading,...

Zine day!

February 23, 2023

Hello dear hearts, It is zine day! I made it before the end of February! Just! In this letter we have: the zine launch, and some bears. For music this month,...

Zine cover, movement and survival: big feelings all around

January 27, 2023

Hello friends, and welcome to 2023. This letter contains no resolutions; it is the circumstances' turn to improve. In this letter we have: zine update! cover...

Letter the Second: winter, stories, crafts, foods

December 21, 2022

Hello friends! A warm Solstice, good Yule, happy fourth night of Hannukah, and impending merry Christmas. Whatever holiday(s) you are observing, celebrating,...

Letter #1! Greetings, Projects, a Poem

November 14, 2022

Hello friends, It is just above freezing here in Vermont. Snow is (finally) in the forecast. The garden is not quite fully asleep, as we had such late warm...