Happy Pride Month 2026! Preparations and performances are afoot...

Mostly working on my upcoming play production 😅

One of these days (i.e., maybe not ever) I want to do a Post Of All The Things I Have Found That Are Amazing And/Or Work Really Well. Because I do a lot, I’ve tried many things, I’d like to share my results, and I don’t much like the thought of contributing Products® to *mazon.

Anyway.

This month is mostly dedicated to TRANS JOY because we need it 😅 and because it’s “Pride month” and why not? Trans Joy includes preparing for my upcoming play, This Body, This Fruit, for which you can (and should) buy tickets right now!

Show dates and times:

• Opening Day: Wednesday, July 8th, 7pm (show followed by Q&A / talk-back)

• Thursday, July 9th, 7pm

• Friday, July 10th, 7pm

• Saturday, July 11th, 7pm

• Sunday, July 12th, 2pm

• Monday, July 13th, 2pm (yes, it’s at 2pm on a Monday)

• Tuesday, July 14th, 7pm (closing show)

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June’s Better Things is tonight (!), June 2nd, at Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, 7-8:30pm. The lineup is fabulous and the vibes will be lovely and amazing 💖.

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Rhythm & Revolution Poetry Discussion

Wednesday, June 3, 6:30 PM

Arlington Hills Community Center - Community Room
1200 Payne Avenue, Saint Paul

I guess if you’re going to use a stock photograph, this person kinda looks like a poet. Or a student. Many students are poets! Many poets are students! Maybe this isn’t even a stock photo. Looks like it, though.

The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Library of Congress-designated Minnesota Center for the Book, selected my poem “‘America’ Never Loved Me” as winner for the We the People theme in Rhythm and Revolution: The America at 250 Poetry Project. I’ll be making a rare appearance all the way across the river in Saint Paul for a short, moderated conversation followed by an audience Q & A.

The podcast I’m producing, Into a Darker Wilderness, is now live! You can find it on all platforms:

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Castbox

Amazon Music

iHeartRadio

Pocket Casts

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Saturday, June 13th, at 3pm, you can catch me and some other unconventionally gendered friends at Quatrefoil Library! TaneshaNicole, July 23, Alice Paige, and Gene Gazelka will all be joining me for this fantastical Pride-month reading, and I’d love to see you there 💖.

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Not something I’m specifically involved in, but the legendary Andrea Jenkins is sharing a new poem she wrote at an event celebrating the Mississippi River earlier on Saturday, June 13th, at 10 AM. You can find more info on this at https://www.mwmo.org/events/oh-how-the-words-flow-a-river-poem-unveiling-with-andrea-jenkins/.

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You can preorder my forthcoming first poetry collection, This Body, This Fruit, right now! Trio House Press is offering 25% off on all orders (including preorders) for the month of June, so if you missed last month’s free shipping deal, this will help make up for it.