Todd’s poem “One Can Miss Mountains” was reprinted on Maggie Mason’s widely-read MIGHTYGIRL blog in July 2008.

About collaborations,

Todd says:

Todd was commissioned to write “A Deer,” which is in his new book, Yellowrocket.

Producer Angella Kassube approached Todd after a poetry reading in 2008. A year later, they launched a major poetry animation project, now online at www.motionpoems.com.

Todd is currently helping composer Andy Vores bring a verse adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s Pan to the concert stage.

Belly up to the

Five years at The Playwrights’ Center has shown me what an isolated form poetry is. We should all have to leave our ideas in the hands of actors, directors, designers, musicians... Collaborations build bigger artists.

Lots of great musicians are setting Todd’s poems to music, including the amazing flutist, Julie Johnson.