She was just selected as Poet Laureate of Kansas, beginning a two-year term in July of 2009; in addition to giving readings and talks, she will be facilitating writing workshops, and training local writers, educators, community leaders, artists, etc. to lead ongoing writing circles throughout the state of Kansas. She has three books forthcoming in 2009: The Sky Begins at Your Feet, a memoir on cancer, community and the earth; Landed, her forth collection of poetry; and My Tree of Life: Writing and Living Through Serious Illness, an anthology she's editing. In the last year, she organized the 6th annual Power of Words conference, which featured Julia Alvarez, Bread and Puppet, Kelley Hunt, Rick Jarow and others; gave readings in Kansas and Missouri; led facilitation workshops in Kansas and Tennessee; and presented writing workshops at Turning Point in Kansas City for people with serious illness, and in Lawrence, KS. on finding your calling. She will lead, with Kelley Hunt, Brave Voice: Writing and Singing for Your Life, May 10-15, 2009 in the Flint Hills of Kansas. An essay she wrote, "Dragonflies and Inky Blackness: Raising a Child with Hidden Disabilities" will appear in a forthcoming anthology. She continues to serve on the Transformative Language Arts Network Council, and the Continental Bioregional Congress Coordinating Council. She also started and now regularly contributes to several blogs - one on Goddard's MA in Individualized Studies Program (WorldsofChange.blogspot.com), as a Transformative Language Artist (TLAzine.blogspot.com), and her own blog (CarynMirriamGoldberg.blogspot.com)