I write really slowly, but I thought I'd offer the poems below as they are very much about my practice, the space in which I do my writing: as participant and teacher of creative writing classes. In Teachers & Writers' virtual writing workshop (http://www.writenet.org/virtualpoetrywrkshp.html), I present writing exercises and the class writes from them. The exercises propose using acrostics, half-rhymed word lists, index card vocabulary, found language, mandala meditations, continuous line drawings and other writing strategies. (I also teach writing classes in person here in Austin). The following poems were written from the exercises that I mentioned above.

I do not have an office-y formal writing space. I write in a notebook, a medium-sized artist sketch book, during class (where most of my poems begin), sitting up in bed, on the couch or our front stoop. Photographer Blake Justice kindly agreed to document my writing space and took pictures of me flinching on the couch and on the dusky stairs.