Word Touch

I'm a spoken-word poet, as well as a writer/speaker on spiritual topics. I make my living reading nonfiction books in many subjects and creating indexes for them.

• The Poetry—I write and recite poetry on people and places that have moved me, the spiritual journey and the heart's search for love, using metaphors from mythology and the natural world around us.  I discovered after one performance that I'm really a storyteller disguised as a poet. On my blog page, you'll find some of my verses. Recently, my husband, Matthew has collaborated with me on a number of poems and helped me edit my own, with amazing results, so, you'll see his name along with mine in the blog, depending on the piece.

  I've noticed that the modernist phase of poetry, where people outside the ivory tower seemed to have no access to understandable narrative verse, seems to have passed, and poetry is returning to its troubadourial and storytelling roots. I highly recommend looking up poets and poems at the Poetry Forum.

  For a good resource on accessible poetry, I also recommend Garrison Keillor's book, Good Poems, based on his daily readings on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. If you think poetry is obscure and stuffy and weird, take a look at Keillor's choices and you'll be moved, amused, and inspired.

• The Prose—I've written a number of essays so far,re-interpretations of biblical stories with an eye for extracting the still valuable nuggets of universal wisdom within. On this page, you'll see abstracts of the essays I've written so far, which will make good chapters for a book, I think. I'll add more as I finish reading on other topics in this very rich material on the human and divine.

I update Twitter two or three times a day with what's going on in verse or prose or life. Follow me there!