2021 -2022 Post Covid: time for new beauty, new voice
An Exhibit! Finally! With Covid waning, the summer of 2021 saw the exhibit Beasties and Marvels/Bestioles et Merveilles come to life at the Olde Blacksmith Art Gallery in Stanstead, QC. We were four artists showing our fascination and care for insects with a variety of materials! My work involved large and small paintings with ink […]
2019 Poetry on the Bay of Fundy, publications in Montreal and 2020 Zoom for Covid 19
A note for the times: Gratefully, my life goes on in this strange Time of Corona, as one friend puts it. I want to wish you and your loved ones much wellness, energy, solace hope and safety for this difficult period. Art is process… and sometimes web sites too! So I’m catching up with you […]
2018 Montreal! Painting and Sculptures with Songs of Solidarity for the opening.
From Sand and Stars, my solo exhibit of painting and sculpture came to fruition! Opening on April 26th at the Centre d’art E.K. Voland, it was accompanied by my Spoken Word show Songs of Solidarity/Chants d’amitié en mouvance in its Montreal version. Pierre Nepveu, one of Quebec’s leading authors, gave a generous introduction getting the evening off […]
2017 A Lecture, Some Sculpture, and fabulous fun at Le Fou-Bar Montreal!
The most recent news is, I moved back to Montreal in July. As I arrived, I was happy to find my bilingual poem Si je disais/What Can I say? published in Montreal’s Spanish-speaking publication The Apostles Review #19. Since then I have enjoyed reading with this warm and lively literary community. From the beginning it […]
2016 Les femmes rapaillées! and the P.E.N. Women Writers’ Committee
In the spring, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope reached Montreal with my reading at the well-loved ARGO Bookshop. The response of those present was heartening. People are hungry for hope and knowledge. How satisfying and motivating it was to nourish that hope for the land and our relationship with it! This has been […]
2015 A New Show, Ancient Petroglyphs and Arts Alive!
Now it’s Fall and after doing new writing in French for a couple publications, I’m enjoying time again in the Southwest. My focus this time is guiding tours with Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project. Do go to their site to see and enjoy the wonderful work they do. mesaprietapetroglyphs.org Voices, music, images, depth of rhythm and […]
2014 The e-book Award! Montreal, Taos, then Ireland! Readings and workshops
CIPA AWARDViva Colorado my first home! My book The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope has received its second award in one year! This time from Colorado Independent Publishers Association for the enhanced e-book version (text, audio and images) that I enjoyed recording last November with Brook Forest Voices in Evergreen. I am so encouraged […]
2013 FINALIST! and a Book Tour
SeptemberThe Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope has been named FINALIST for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in two categories: Nature/Environment and First Book! November – in Quebec and Santa Fe! Billed with Isabelle Forêt and Michel Leclerc as 3 featured poets, on the 8th, I was moved by the public’s enthusiastically warm reception of […]