Word Gatherer: Life in a Time of Saturn Rising

Some recent news on my end.

I’ll be the featured reader this
Wednesday night (March 5) at the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry reading at
the Ugly Mug Caffe in Orange, CA. The open mic begins at 8pm. http://www.poetryidiots.com/

Also,
my profile on theater performance artist Robert Karimi’s Cooking Con
Karimi (con Castro) is out in the Hapa issue of Hyphen magazine. http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/features/issues/current/

xoxo

Dear family:

I feel so blessed to have so many gracious &
supportive people in my life — bringing new blessings & gifts!
I’ve felt so much love since I’ve turned 30 — I hope this is a good
sign for this new decade! Thank you thank you thank you for all the
love I’ve gotten from all of you these past few weeks!

I was
blessed to have my poems "Xiaomei’s First Heartbreak," "Lightning
Love," and "Fifth Day of Silence" included in OCHO 16 (the print
companion to MiPOesias), guest edited by Barbara Jane Reyes.

Here are 2 links to find out more:
http://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do;jsessionid=014D179D230F989F05D81763267939E9.cspworker01?id=3338152
Barbara jane’s blog, http://bjanepr.wordpress.com where you can see the lovely cover art by visual artist Juan Carlos Quintana.