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My New Poetry Book “Cocktails in the Wild” Published in Time for Spring

Posted on April 2, 2018 by BobknoxApril 2, 2018

Welcome, spring! And welcome my new poetry book! My new poetry chapbook, titled “Cocktails in the Wild,” was published on March 27 by Unsolicited Press and is available from their website at http://www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p139/robertknoxpoetry The ‘cocktails’ in the title refer to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged 2016 presidnetial election campaign, America, Beirut, Cocktails in the Wild, Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty, online poetry journal, poems, Unsolicited Press, Voluptuous | Leave a reply

A September Story: My Short Story “Back to School” Published Online

Posted on September 19, 2017 by BobknoxSeptember 19, 2017

My short story about troubling days for a substitute high school teacher is up on the online journal “Beneath the Rainbow.” The editors did a great job designing a page for the story and were very generous with space for … Continue reading →

Posted in fiction, Poetry, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged Beneath the Rainbow, Charlie Hedbo, Paris, poetry, school, teaching, Verse-Virtual.com | Leave a reply

My Poem on Charity and Hospitality in an Age of Plastic

Posted on September 6, 2017 by BobknoxSeptember 6, 2017

My poem on the difficult issue of living charitably and hospitably, as moral authorities such as the writers of the New Testament say we should, is appearing in the September issue of the online poetry journal, Verse-Virtual. The poem is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged Book of Matthew, Charity, Firestone Feinberg, Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty, Hospitality, Immigration, Perseids | Leave a reply

Garden of Verse: Singing the Catastrophic Climate Change Blues

Posted on August 21, 2017 by BobknoxAugust 21, 2017

It’s still inconvenient. It’s still the truth. If anything, more studies, more data, and more direct observation of the polar ice caps have only caused climate scientists to fast-forward their predictions of the catastrophic dislocations and probably disasters that rapid … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Songs, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged Arctic, blues, global warming, ice cap, sea level rise | Leave a reply

My Poem About Trees Reaches for the Sky

Posted on July 21, 2017 by BobknoxJuly 21, 2017

  My poem titled “As A Tree,” appearing in this month’s issue of Verse-Virtual.com begins with a reference to the tree’s unblushing approach to reproduction, characteristic of the plant world’s expression of necessary physical functions such as growth, nutrition, birth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Verse-Virtual.com | Tagged Gardeners Do It With Their Hands Dirty, gardening, Oak trees, online poetry journal, poems, poetry, Verse-Virtual | Leave a reply

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My new poetry chapbook, “Cocktails in the Wild,” is out!

My new poetry chapbook “Cocktails in the Wild,” published by Unsolicited Press, is available at http://www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p139/robertknoxpoetry. Poems include “Cocktails on the Balcony,” “Voluptuous,” “The Perfect Candidate,” “The Paradise of Birds,” and others.

Three new poems on the subject of poetry are up in April on Verse-Virtual.com http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-april.html

My essay on repealing the Second Amendment appears on Medium at https://medium.com/@bobknox/in-dysfunctional-countries-thousands-suffer-from-the-rule-of-ak-47-and-then-there-s-the-strange-623afae9f38a

Three of my poems were published recently by the Blue Nib at http://magazine.thebluenib.com/article/poetry-by-robert-knox-ash-slade/

 

story on working at Riker’s Island — where I “woked” to who goes to prison in America — is online at http://beneaththerainbow.com/behind-bars/

Three poems of mine on the theme of “karma” are up on Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal, in the February 2018 issue http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-february.html

How do you manage to keep order and get down to real teaching when you’re a new substitute teacher and don’t know any of your students? To make matters worse, the regular teachers are on strike. My short story “Back to School” is up on the online journal “Beneath the Rainbow.” The site provided an attractive design for my story and generous bio space for me. http://beneaththerainbow.com/back-to-school/

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