Awards

Arts KC Inspiration Award Winner 2009

Charlotte Street Foundation Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010

Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus

Donations for respectful, revealing, responsible, revved-up, revolutionaries

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Faces for Al

My friend and peer support client died after succumbing to his depression. I miss him a lot. I wrote a poem for Al to put on his digital poem collage for his funeral. Here’s his memorial website.

Faces for Al

This is Al: He looked good in a suit, and he cared deeply about the . . . → Read More: Faces for Al

How Do You Know When You Have Power?

I wrote this poem about what happened to me this year at Kansas’ Mental Health Advocacy Day in Topeka. We had about 350 consumers there and we were staring at massive budget cuts to the mental health system. I realized, while talking to the TV news reporter, that people were going to die if we . . . → Read More: How Do You Know When You Have Power?