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My first full-length poetry collection was just published by Broken Tribe Press. Here is what people are saying: Compelling, accessible, and remarkably honest, We’re doing pretty good if we can just get out alive is filled with stark, realistic, personal yet quite universal poems that paint an intimate portrait of identity, interpersonal struggles, loss, nostalgia,

Tilt by Jone Rush MacCulloch Tilt, a middle grade novel in verse was published in April 2026. It was inspired by a student whose untimely death made a lasting impact on the school’s community. Ten-year-old Darrah says “Tilt” when her world shifts. Her parents get divorced. She and her bestie argue. Then she meets a

Capillary Action: Verse in a Light Vein Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 715 SE Grand Avenue, Portland  Sunday, April 19, 3:00PM One thing is certain in this troubled world: Laughter beats the pants off gloom and doom. As poet David Hedges, a master rib-tickler, informs the reader in his title poem: “Gravity is for the grave.” In the

The title of Allan Peterson’s seventh full-length book, Amid This, vividly describes the astonishment of being alive and surrounded by a world in which there is no ordinary. Nature intersects thought and language in surprising and revealing observations. The fact that life has term limits invests everything with poignancy. Using illuminating language, poems often arise

Pepper Trail’s new collection of poems, “Wild/Flower: Poems of the Oregon Flora,” has just been released by Painted Thrush Press. From spring wildflowers to autumn foliage, from delicate columbines to carnivorous cobra lilies, these poems illuminate the varied and beautiful flora of Oregon. In the words of Charles Goodrich, “Trail’s spacious poems invite us to