Please join me and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in the first installment of their new online series of readings & conversations with writers.These events will feature discussions and readings with former mentors and mentees of the Writer to Writer mentorship program. Now in its fourteenth season, AWP’s free, biannual program matches emerging…

To mark the 1-year anniversary of the show at the Cultural Commons of San Antonio, I’m sharing this mural created by Coral Diaz which features a poem of mine, Hijos Dalgos. I was honored to have this displayed at the City of San Antonio’s Tricentennial Celebration last year and wanted to share the piece with…

If you’d like to support my mission of using The Seed Vault to plant seeds of change in a time of global crisis, please consider donating the cost of the book ($14.49), or any larger amount, to the International Rescue Committee or to a reputable food bank of your choosing. Email me here at [email protected] to tell me about…

My publisher has just this week started to post a “lockdown series” of short videos on its YouTube channel. The first entry is 4 minutes of me reading from The Seed Vault