The Underdream
Debut poetry collection with Cornerstone Press (August 2025)
A reckoning with what it means to slow down — these poems inquire into the necessity of doing so; for our bodies and for the earth. Written while healing from active pulmonary Tuberculosis during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Underdream is at once intimate with death, while also raw with the desire to keep living in these temporary bodies, alive, alive, alive. Invited into awe, despite a revved-up cultural pace and an extractive way of being on the planet; readers are encouraged to place attention on how we are in-common, on the expansion possible within our limitations.
Cover art also by Aiyana Masla
Stone Fruit
Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Press.
Tracking the seasons, Stone Fruit brings intimate awe to life’s mundane. Sentimental, erotic, of the body, and fiercely human, this collection asks the questions, how many ways are there to love? And inherently, within that, to let go? Arcing through a year’s time, this chapbook yields to emotion, pleasure and tenderness. By observing the world with sensitivity, Stone Fruit makes movement towards the possibility of subtle, yet vital, cultural change. Each poem, at its heart, is a queer love poem of some kind, with its attempt and determination to adore detail and appreciate the depth of basic aliveness. This collection brings the gaze of the lover to all things, and is offered both as a tool for resilience and as a way to praise.
Cover art also by Aiyana Masla
Appearances
OUR CONVALESCENCE
a celebratory tour for The Underdream :
September 7th: Brooklyn, NYC: backyard of Dear Friend Books
5pm, with Faria Ali, Chelsea Fonden, Ty Raso
October 8th: Virtual Reading: Poetry As Consolation
4-5pm, with Poetry Forge (follow them for forthcoming details)
October 15th: Putney, VT:
the Putney Library
6:30 pm, with Jeanne Lightfoot
October 26th: Ashfield, MA: Ashfield Community Town Hall (upstairs)
4pm, with Holly Wren Spaulding and Sophie Wood
November 9th: Bellingham, WA : TBD
Salish Sea Poetry Festival, with Hannah Yerington
November 13th: Vancouver, BC: Cross & Crow Books
7pm with Hannah Yerington and Alex Leslie
November 15th: Vancouver BC : Enabling Arts
4pm, with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
December 3rd: Western MA : TBD
with janan alexandra and Wendy Lee Spacek
January TBD: Virtual Workshop and Reading
with Workshops for G@za (follow them for forthcoming details)
More details about all events soon!