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Since then, I have made it my life’s work to tap language’s power to gather our collective attention on what matters, whether through writing poems or by being a voice for innovation in health, environment, and business.   

My writing practice is rooted in ecological, social, and personal landscapes of the American West. I’m most interested in hidden narratives, exploring resonances between outer environment and what poet Muriel Rukeyser called our in-vironment (or what Gerard Manley Hopkins called the inscape of things) through language’s relational energy. I consider myself an eco-poet but not just that; I weave threads of physics, found texts, visual arts, and many other disciplines into poems. You also might say my approach leans into phenomenology, mirroring structures of consciousness in poetic expression.

Ecological time, like technological time, is speeding up. To highlight that, I use juxtaposition in my poems—combining human timelines and geologic phenomena, for example, or scientific theories and archetypal wisdom. The physicist Niels Bohr once said: “Physics isn’t the study of what is. It is the study of what we can say about what is.” Poetry is the same—not an encapsulation of a static thing but a series of textual/textural gestures that synchronize us with unseen facts, engaging us in the emotional truths we may require for our survival.