My first collection of poems, “Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty” is scheduled for release in March. These are poems about plants, gardening, flowers, nature, talking to trees, getting stared at by a hummingbird. Seasons change and so do … Continue reading →
I have four new poems online this month on Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal for which I serve as contributing editor, including a political parody entitled “From ‘Trump the Musical.’” Here’s how the poem begins: From “Trump the Musical” I’m … Continue reading →
If you wanted to build a wall a hundred years ago, it would have had to be on the Atlantic. I’ll be speaking on my novel “Suosso’s Lane” at Duxbury Library on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m., my first opportunity … Continue reading →
It’s very unusual to see the entire world celebrating — or even acknowledging — the same important moment at the same time. The last example of this to my mind is the worldwide welcoming of the new millennium at … Continue reading →
I’ll be speaking on my book “Suosso’s Lane” at Duxbury Library on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m., my first opportunity following the inauguration of a new administration to address the potential lessons for our own time from the notorious Sacco … Continue reading →
My first poetry collection, a chapbook titled “Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty,” is scheduled for publication by Finishing Line Press in March. I’m grateful for a couple of recommendations by fellow poets and writers that will appear in … Continue reading →
It’s a New Year. I hope 2017 is not the year in which we say goodbye to the two century-plus long experiment in American democracy. Or, equally as worrying, the beginning of a political breakdown that will lead to social … Continue reading →
The December issue of Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal, published four of my poems in response an election that I can only describe — using the mildest term I can think of — as disappointing. Here’s an excerpt from my … Continue reading →
Author Richard Schiver has published his online interview with me. He regularly interviews authors through contacts made on Goodreads.com and publishes them on his own as a service to the reading public and as a favor to writers like me. … Continue reading →
There’s a certain satisfaction in writing to order. Here’s my first attempt at a “ghazal,” a form that is variously attributed to Arabic poetry, or Persian, or Urdu literature, depending on what reference source you look at. I can’t even … Continue reading →