Revisions: August 2026

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Hi Friends, 

This has been a big summer for me. On July 19th I graduated with my MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Along with my cohort, we celebrated three years of hard work and dedication. 

There has been a lot of celebrating, a little traveling, and mostly finding my way back to some semblance of a routine. 

With Love, 

Kerry (she/her) 

​Upcoming Events:

Facilitating in September: 

• Center for Chronic Illness: Web-Based Rare Chronic Illness Support Group, Tuesday September 1st, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect EOE Adult Support Network, Tuesday September 8th, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect EOE Family Support Network, Tuesday September 15th, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect Rare EOS Support Network, Tuesday September 22nd, 2026 at 4pm PST. 

Attending in September: 

• SoulCollage® Workshop, September 26th, 2026 at 2pm PST. 

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​Past Events:

Attended in August: 

• ​Kenyon Hall Cabaret 

​Published in August 2026:

• The Haiku Foundation: Haiku Dialogue, August 19th 2026

new love
he memorizes
her coffee order 

• when I google 'does SAPHO syndrome refer to the poet Sappho?', Silly Goose Press, Silly Summer Web Series, August 17th 2026

• Prune Juice, Issue 49, August 1st, 2026

bronze lion
the king of beasts
shows his patina 

​Read in August 2026 (The Sealey Challenge Edition):

• Celestial Bodies / Earthbound Wounds by Sadee Bee 
• House of Sound by Matthew Daddona 
• Would-Land by Jill Alexander Essbaum 
• How to Carry Soup by C.M. Rivers 
• The Place One Is by Martha Ronk 
• In Light of Stars by Bruce Willard 
• Plenty. by BeeLyn Naihiwet 
• Eaten By Stars by Mo Walrath 
• The Scene you See by Joannie Strangeland 
• For Hunger by Margaret Rhonda
• Pine by Julia Koets
• Cloudlife by Stefanie Marlis
• Seed Celestial by Sara R. Burnett 
• Bright Raft in the Afterweather by Jennifer Elise Foerster 
• There are Still Woods by Hila Ratzabi 
• Body Memory by Meriwether Clarke
• Gnawed Bones by Peggy Shumaker 
• Red Bird by Mary Oliver 
• American Sycamore by Lisbeth White 
• La Otra Chika / The Other Girl by Vanessa Espino 
• Slow Render by Jess Yuan 
• Through Pine Shadows by Carol R. Sunde 
• Little Boy Blue by Gray Jacobik 
• Rejoicer by Skyler Osborne
• Sapello Son by Alejandro Lucero 
• Root Rot by Rhienna Renee Guedry 
• Fish Wife by Alysee Kathleen McCanna 
• The Convert's Heart is Good to Eat by Melody S. Gee
• The Emperor of the Cut Sleeve by Rick Barot 
• What Us Is by Kellie Richardson 
• ​No Saints by Keana Aguila Labra

​Community Card Pull: 

What is important for you to know right now? 

​Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

Card: The modern interpretation of the Ace of Pentacles is youthful enthusiasm, creativity, and a spark of inspiration. 

Little Free Poetry Therapy Library: 

[Doesn't exist yet] but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library called The Poetry Cottage. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry can be therapeutic. 

Current Therapist's Book Club Selection:

I belong to a book club with other therapists, though we rarely read anything related to therapy. We gravitate toward nonfiction, mystery/suspense/thriller, and upmarket fiction and take recommendations. 

The Wedding by Vandana Nair

"Dr. Ahilya Kapoor dreads heading to her hometown in India for the lavish wedding of Radhika, her young cousin, who's captured the bachelor of the season. Entangled between two worlds, Ahilya's independent career as an epidemiologist for the WHO causes constant friction with her family's desire for her to 'settle down and marry.' During the festivities, Ahilya finds herself drawn to a handsome cardiologist from London. She envisages the possibility of a future that weaves her two worlds in harmony. But, just as things start going well, a mysterious illness sweeps through the gathering and Ahilya is wrapped up in events that will change everyone’s lives. Full of sharp wit, familial drama, cultural clashes, and unexpected encounters, The Wedding explores the complexities of tradition and modernity, and the universal search for love and belonging in a time of transition and turmoil."
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Dead Haijin: 

With body and soul
this skinny little mantis
met every struggle
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Issa​

​Dead Poet: 

but I to you of a white goat

​and I will pour wine over
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Sappho 

Vintage Art: 

Quote to Remember:

"The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them."
-Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees ​