Biography

Author of "Everything's Jake", "Dust Bunnies", "Quaise", and "Finding a Bookstore"

Co-Host of Spoken Word Nantucket


Former SlamMaster and Co-host of the Bridgewater Poetry Slam/Poetribe
Coach - 2002 East Regional Teen Team Slam Champions from Bridgewater
Co-producer - AMP (Arts, Music, Poetry) Festival at the Gallery; Summer 2002
Co-producer - Poets Against the War Reading at the Gallery March 2003
Producer - 2003 Celebration of National Poetry Month event at Brockton High School
Producer - Monday Night Mingle (Even Keel) 2004
Producer - 2005 Katrina Relief Poetry and Music Events
Producer and Host - New Blue Moon Poetry Slam at Attleboro Arts Museum 2006 Former co-host of The Daily Grind
Host of The Nantucket Teen Slam 2004-2006 at the Nantucket Atheneum
Co-Producer - Celebration of Robert Burns 2007
Co-Producer - MLK Celebration 2006, 2007
) Co-Producer - Black History Month Celebration at the African Meeting House 2006, 2007
Co-Producer - Juneteenth Celebration 2007 Member of Poetry Slam Inc.
Member of Poetribe Slam team 2003

Winner - 2003 Cambridge Poetry Awards: Best Narrative Poem

Publications

Kokopilau 1986
Autumn Leaves 2000
Art Speaks 2001
At a Picnic Basket 2001
Selected Poems of the Daily Grind 2002
Everything's Jake (Chapbook) 2002
Selected Poems from Brockton Celebrates National Poetry Month 2003
Dustbunnies (Chapbook) 2003
Selected Poems of Poetribe 2003
Quaise (Chapbook) 2005
South American Explorer Vol. 83/Fall 2006
Look! Up in the Sky! An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry 2006
Finding a Bookstore (Chapbook) 2008
Co-Editor Brockton Celebrates National Poetry Month
Co-Editor Selected Poems of Poetribe

Featured Readings

Bradford College w/ Martha Collins 1986
Marshfield Arts Festival 2001, 2002, and 2003
The Daily Grind 2001
The Gallery, East Bridgewater, MA 2002
Out of The Blue Cambridge, MA 2002, 2006
Mad Poets Cafe, Providence, RI 2002
Walden Woods, MA 2003
Dartmouth College, NH 2003
Brockton Public Library Series, MA 2003, 2005, 2007
Poetribe, Brockton, MA Jan. 2004, Jan. 2007
Fuller Museum Of Art, Brockton, MA 2004
Jester's Cafe, Westfield, MA 2004
Uptown Players Celebration of Black History Month 2004
Monday Night Mingle, Nantucket, MA, 2004
Black Repertory Theatre, Providence RI 2004
ACTing for Democracy, Nantucket, MA 2004
Accoustic Coffee, Portland, ME Oct 2004
Poetry in the Chapel, Forest Hills, MA 2005
Museum of Bad Art, Dedham, MA 2005
Gypsy Pashyn's Poetry Caravan, Medford MA 2005
TV Feature: "Literary Limelight" Jan. 2006: Boston Neighborhood Network
Cantab, Boston Poetry Slam, Cambridge, MA 2007 Poetribe, January 2008