Word Up, Culture Vulture’s Artist’s Residency. Sefrou, Morocco
January 2017

I was lured to Morocco by the promise of staying in an ancient, medina in a town where textile buttons are made for djellabas.  The buttons were like breadcrumbs leading me to Sefrou where I wrote new poems and worked on a translation into Arabic, Tifinagh, and Darija. I read at Clock Café in Fez and in the Streets of Sefrou for a culminating arts walk at night. To learn more about Culture Vultures’ programs, and the exciting Museum of Multiculturalism being created at this very moment in Sefrou: http://culturevulturesfez.org.

Beetime Artist Residency, Art, Ecology, and Science, East Sussex, England, June 2017 

Opportunity to study bees and biodynamic farming.  In response, I created a series of poetry sketch books, which I made by hand and shared at an end-of-residency exhibition and poetry reading.  “Drone Poem”, written during the Beetime Residency, won first place in the Remembrance Day for Lost Species Poetry Competition in Dublin, Ireland.  See Beetime website above for more information about the organization.  Check out Natural Beekeeping Trust’s fabulous website for cutting edge thinking about bees and rewilding: https://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org

Finding the Common Thread, a Beetime Art & Ecology Research Residency, Santa Lucia, Vejer de la Frontera Spain, September 2019

This was a residency for three, a visual artist, Philip J. Riley (UK/Cyprus), Becky Leach (UK), a storyteller, and me. A section of a long poem, written and performed in Santa Lucia, will be published in my upcoming chapbook, To Set Right. https://beetime.net/en/