My poetry manuscript, SMOLDER, was a finalist for the 2024 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry award. See/hear me read a selection of poems at The Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ. (And here’s a link to the full reading, featuring winner Suzanne Cleary and fellow finalist Susan Rothbard.) Thank you to the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Foundation for hosting us!
Fire monk Myogen Steve Stücky died December 31, 2013 from pancreatic cancer. For remembrances of this man of remarkable compassion and determination visit the Myogen Roshi Facebook page, the Subtle Eye blog, the Chronicle’s brief account of Myogen’s passing, and my own personal tribute here.
My profile of Alice Walker was just published in the November 2013 issue of Shambhala Sun!
Dharma talk at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago. Here I am (awake with eyes closed) with my host Taigen Dan Leighton.
A video clip from my reading and slideshow presentation at East West Books in Mountain View.
Mill Valley Public Library First Friday lecture video.
I gave the keynote presentation at the 2012 International Association of Wildland Fire Human Dimensions conference in Seattle, along with fire monk David Zimmerman, pictured below.
Listen to an Aug 30 interview with WHAM13 out of Rochester.
Read Tricycle‘s online Q&A about Fire Monks here.
Fire Monks made the Buyer’s Choice – Hottest Books of the Summer list in the Indie Reader.
The Daily Beast named Fire Monks as one of this week’s (July 27) Hot Reads.
Fire Monks is a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the month!
SF Weekly author Q&A
A video of the Fire Monks launch event at the San Francisco Zen Center is now online!
