WhatcomWrites! is a county-wide writing contest. This year's theme is "Enemies." My poem, The Agent, is one of the 30 winners. Some of us will be reading at 4 pm on Sunday, February 12, at Village Books in Bellingham. My husband and I are also reading that evening in SpeakEasy 6, at The Amadeus Project in Bellingham, along with about 20 other couples. The theme will be "Love Uncensored." Here's the flyer. I taught a weekend workshop in the crinkled masa paper technique January 21-22, 2012 at Egress Studio in Bellingham, WA. The details are on the Egress Studio blog. It went so well that we'll be repeating it soon. Drop me an email if you're interested. SpeakEasy 5: I read with four other poets on Saturday, December 10, 2011, 7 pm at The Amadeus Project in Bellingham. See the very cool flyer for details. Here is a blog entry dated December 18, 2011 about the reading by Jennifer Bullis, one of the other participants: Three of my haiku appear in the inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds on haiku pages 5, 13, and 15. I'm happy to have a poem in the on-line anthology From Lime Trees to Eucalypts: A Botany of Tanka. Twenty-five poets from all over the globe pay homage to native plants from their regions in tanka, a Japanese poetic form in 5 llnes. My dramatic subtractive monotype, In the Hoh, was part of the Fate of the Forest exhibition at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington through September 18, 2011. Some of my poetry appears Issue 2 of Mu, an on-line haiku journal, the August 2011 issue of bottle rockets and Moonbathing: a Journal of Women's Tanka Issue 4. My piece "Haiku and Senryu on the Theme of Borders" won a place in the annual Whatcom READS! contest anthology. I joined other winners at a reading at Village Books in Bellingham, WA on Saturday, April 23,2011 at noon. I had a one-person show at The Amadeus Project in Bellingham, Washington from February 15 to April 30, 2011. Sixteen of my larger pieces filled the walls of this gem of a concert space. Some of my writing appeared in the Winter 2011 issues of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America and Prune Juice, a journal of senryu and kyoka I spoke about my work to a group of cultural travel writers at Allied Arts Gallery in Bellingham, WA in October, 2010. One of them, Allen Cox, wrote about this tour in his blog.