Articles
Decor Maine - October 2023
Radical Reuse
Students at The Hatchery in Rockport are re-imagining the life cycle of our material world.
At The Hatchery, worn-out skis transform into Adirondack chairs, grayed and rough pallets become sanded-smooth benches, and decks live a second life as raised beds in a community garden. More than just a makerspace for academic credit, The Hatchery, an emerging program at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, changes mindsets. (read more)
Decor Maine - June 2023
A gallery in Searsport wants to get people talking about religion and climate change.
When it comes to things like climate change and religion, “everyone already knows what they think,” Dr. Rosen says over a cup of tea. “We need to have unbounded spaces where people discover things about their thoughts and feelings that they might not have known or admitted before.” (read more)
Decor Maine - May 2023
TimberHP wood fiber insulation by GO Labs in Madison, Maine is being lauded as a carbon-sequestering solution
When Matt O’Malia spoke of turning enormous piles of wood shavings into sustainable carbon-storing insulation products, I imagined a soft mountain, smelling of cedar, with kids climbing up and rolling down it like a giant natural playground. I think TimberHP’s plan is more serious than that. But I bet they had a lot of fun making videos for their website, aiming a blow torch at their products and seeing how much better they hold up compared with foam boards melting and charring to nothing. (read more)
Decor Maine - April 2023
Veggies to Table Nourishes the Body and Soul
Tomatillos, rainbow carrots, purple-topped turnips, fresh raspberries—“this is stuff you would sell at the organic farmers market,” Erica Berman says, but she and the farmers and volunteers at Veggies to Table are giving it all away. (read more)
WISE - Stonecoast - Feb 2020
Understanding Their Own Stories: Cody Mower and the Portland Veterans Book Group
Mower is trying to debunk the idea that all vets are supposed to be tough guys. (read more)
Maine Boats - Sept/Oct 2017
It turns out that a skin-on-frame canoe is an excellent starter project for a beginning boatbuilder, particularly the mathematically un-inclined such as myself. (read more)
The Working Waterfront - Jan 2017
This Shop Crafts Beautiful Boats and Beautiful Lives
You might also find them doing things like roofing the barn, baking a mac and cheese casserole, digging beets in the garden, discussing feminist literature, splitting wood, or mentoring kids at the local school. (read more)
Co-authored with Alton Lane — 2016
Only Human: A Journey from Convict to Mentor
I was only in kindergarten, but I was a pretty good-sized kid, as big as any fourth grader. One day Mark asked me if I’d be his bodyguard. He said he’d let me drive his father’s lawn tractor anytime. Whenever they started picking on Mark, I’d beat the hell out of those fourth-graders. (order)
Island Journal - 2012
I Know He’s Watching Me: Swan’s Islanders Live Their Faith
When Bernita Joyce was a young girl she remembers her father asking God to bless the waterfront every day to “keep the arguing down,” so the lobstermen could have “a peaceful existence with each other.”
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Island Institute — 2010
Guts, Feathers and All: Stories of Hard Word and Good Times on Swan’s Island, Maine
Ten residents of Swan’s Island tell their stories and the history of the island.
Poems, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction Essays
Adanna Literary Journal - Issue #12, Fall 2022
The pebbles feel good.
The minnows kiss your knees.
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kerning — Toad Hall Press — June 2022
The surest way to hide from your family during Easter brunch is to eat a single bite of asparagus. (order to read more)
WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic — Littoral Press — 2021
Replace a t with an h, and it becomes
symphomatic, as in the Boston Symph-o-matic
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Multiplicity - Oct 2020
What do you say to a 93-year-old woman who just wants out of her body? (read more)
Stonecoast Review - Winter 2021
I never got the rape kit. I didn’t see the point—no bruises, no scratches. What would they be looking for, my missing courage? (order to read more)
Hole in the Head Review - Summer 2020
How many dreams tumbled
from his lips
like lotto tickets from his glove box?
Hole in the Head Review - Summer 2020
She Writes the Kama Sutra (an erasure poem)
She
is
a
household Goddess.
Try to stop her!
FEM (Fuck ‘Em) - 2019
The orthodontist made me a new dead fox—a curving row of white round rectangles, miniature fluorescent lights for my mouth. (order to read more)
Balancing Act 2 - Littoral Press - 2018
Never Fall in Love with a Housemate
Oh, it won’t be a problem,
the boys,
so young,
so free.
They never take the compost out.
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