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“The Air like Water”

7 Aug 2020
My poem, "The Air like Water," has just appeared in the Grey Sparrow literary journal. Cast your eyes on it at: Grey Sparrow: "The Air like Water" As usual, the…
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Live Virtual Reading

11 May 202011 May 2020
Live events being off the table for now, Rich Soos, editor at Cholla Needles, just set up a virtual table: he asked all the poets who have been featured lately…
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“Six Poems”

7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020
Here we go: issue #41 of Cholla Needles magazine just came out, and it includes six of my recent poems, being: "To the Remembered" "Has to Be" "This Box of…
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Signs from Heaven

21 Mar 2020
One thing I love about our apartment is its windows. We are on the second floor, and our street is narrow and bordered mostly with older, graceful buildings. There's a…
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When Clichés Come to Life

20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020
Clichés are much derided in writing circles, and rightly so: they are a lazy way to express the character of a situation, and usually they have been heard so often…
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Local Poetry and a Cause for Optimism

24 Jan 2020
An odd and pleasing transaction: I had sent a short story to a magazine I found in one of the listings I use, and it was gently rejected the same…
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Writing Coach

28 Jan 201928 Jan 2019
I'm setting up as a writing coach and consultant, to combine my love of literature and my skills at teaching...see my new (and  not yet definitive) webpage for it here:…
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The Tide

20 Aug 201820 Aug 2018
Another poem, because, well, writng poems is one thing humans do.... lazy ripples lap at tumbled rocks rising to the tidewrack of dead weeds then falling back, depleted and serene:…
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Boat Channel

18 Jun 201818 Jun 2018
Just another poem, this one in blank verse, for a change from the usual.... This bit of trapped Pacific, trammeled here by silt and broken stone: to the white hulls…
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River of Night

19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018
darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…

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