I’ll be giving two presentations at the 32 Annual Central Coast Writers Conference September 29-October 1st.  My first presentation will will engage participants with a lecture and discussion of how the choice of persona and perspective can help shape a poem’s tone and content, and the second will present strategies intended to help poets use rhyme and sound to deepen –rather than distract from—a work’s lyrical complexity. I’m looking forward to working with poets from the central coast region, so this should be fun.