EVENTS AND NEWS
Events/News
Upcoming: I will be a featured reader at the C&P Coffeehouse in West Seattle, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.
My poem “Cartography” was a finalist in the RockPaperPoem Poetry Contest in the fall of 2025. Judge was Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer!
My next manuscript placed in the Honorable Mention category in the Sally Abiso Poetry Prize.
Prior Events/Past News
October 2024: Happy to report that Scarlet: A Literary Journal accepted my whole batch of FOUR poems, and Lone Mountain Literary Society accepted TWO!
Excited to be the featured poet at the City of Auburn’s Poetry Night, called Poetry at the Postmark. Reading is on Wednesday, Nov. 6 and starts at 6:30 p.m followed by an open mic from 7 - 8 p.m. Address is 25 W Main Street in Auburn.
I will be the featured poet at Everett Poetry Nights on Monday, May 6.
I will be reading with two other Vashon poets at the bookstore. Date coming soon!
Hosted event for family and friends at Fete in downtown Spokane on March 9, 4 - 8 p.m. Introduction by Alex Kuo. Native American flute by Freddie B.
Penumbra Literary Magazine accepts “My Best Friend’s Mother Paints My Nails”
Kelsay Books will publish “In the Spaces Between Us” in Jan. 2024!
The Spotlong Review features my poem “Feeding Time”
Hobart Literary Magazine published “What the Dark Reveals”. And RAW: Journal of Arts gave “First Morning in Sedona” a home.
I will be reading a poem a day starting on Monday, August 15 on NPR’s The Poetry Moment.
As part of the city’s poet laureate program, a poet kicks off the city council meeting with a poem from a Spokane neighborhood. I am doing this on August 29 and here is my poem.
Spotlong Review took “Feeding Time”’ and Whistling Shade published “Siblings”. Ignatian Literary Magazine took two poems: “The Death Photographer, Mid-1800s” and “On My First Imprint of Womanhood”. And happy to share that Hawaii Pacific Review took “Cartoon Character (or Not). Last, Wildroof Journal gave my poem “Unanswered” a home.
December 2021: Hawaii Pacific Review published “On My First Imprints of Womanhood”
Yvonne will be the featured poet on the Spokane Public Radio Program the week of March 29, 2021.
El Portal took “Grim-Facts Files”; Umbrella Factory took “Sperm Bank for Nobel Prize Winners”; Avalon Literary Magazine will publish “Self Diagnosis”; Better Than Starbucks is taking “Dear Man” and Brief Wilderness published “Walking Shelter Dogs”!
Better Than Starbucks published “Dear Man” and Brief Wilderness accepted my poem “Walking Shelter Dogs”.
Thank you to Gordon Purkis, editor-in-chief of Brief Wilderness, for publishing my poem "Walking Shelter Dogs"!
I read with other contributors published in Issue 25 of Sin Fronteras on May 15 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. PDT
Poetry Reading was via Zoom
The poem will appear in their upcoming 2021 issue
I had a productive year with 23 poems finding homes in 13 print and online journals.
May 20, 2020: Great course: Layers of Landscape by Joe Wilkins