A home-page-worthy announcement: I have been selected to serve as Sheboygan, Wisconsin’s second Poet Laureate, from 2026-2029! Keep an eye out here for projects and events – and in the meantime, please consider subscribing to the new Unofficial Sheboygan Poet Laureate Newsletter.
My style is a sort of literal surrealism or magical realism, and yet I believe very strongly in clarity. If I could ask one thing of a reader or listener, it would be to really try to picture what I’m describing in my poetry. Like Chagall’s figures who float through the air, I am trying to capture a world that is both clear and real but also strange and magical – ordinary and extraordinary all at once – as though perhaps these two things are not as different as we assume.
