Influences – words in and of themselves, natural world, café conversation, food, visual arts. Favorite author? The one I haven’t read yet. Others: Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Anne Carson, Diane diPrima, e.e. cummings, Penelope Fitzgerald, Linda Gregg, Brenda Hillman, Carol Maso, Heather McHugh, Anne Michaels, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, Rebecca Solnit, Jeanette Winterson.

Poems appear in All Things Girl, Arsenic Lobster, The Aurorean, Bayou, Blades, Blood Orange Review, Bombay Gin, Buckle &, Café Review, Cezanne's Carrot, CLWN WR, Clara Venus, Comstock Review, Coracle, Elegant Thorn, Erosha, Foliate Oak, Flutter, FriGG, Gay & Lesbian Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, HeartLodge, The Hiss Quarterly, Hot Metal Press, La Fenetre, Mannequin Envy, Merge, Niederngasse, Noon, A Journal of the Short Poem, North Coast Review, Origin Sixth Series Issue 4, Pearl, Poetry Super Highway, Rainbow Curve, Right Hand Pointing, Runes, Saranac Review, Sinister Wisdom, Snow Monkey, 21 Stars Review, Triplopia, Van Gogh's Ear, and The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Zygote in My Coffee.

Collaborated with Bay-Area artist Donna Fenstermaker to create a limited addition print.

GALLERY CAFE READING SERIES (The first Monday of the Month, expect January & June) Gallery Café 1200 Mason at Washington, San Francisco 7:00 – 8:30 PM 3 feature readers followed by an open mic -- 2minutes per open mic reader Monday, December 3, 2007 Featured readers: Diane Frank John Rowe Selene Steese NO READING IN JANUARY Monday, February 4, 2008 Featured readers: Marvin R. Hiemstra Jane Ormerod Richard Loranger host, Kit Kennedy kit.kennedy@yahoo.com