As of August 24, 2024 [more than 60 poems, 1 essay, 1 chapbook finalist, 1 historical novel excerpt finalist, 4…
revised and updated 20 March 2022 In less than a month, I will be flying to Paris to stay awhile…
The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone—more familiarly, the ITCZ (called the “Itch”)—is a belt about 5 degrees north and south of the…
I am pleased and honored to refer to these sites where my recent poetry has been published: The first two…
I haven’t decided if this title should be emphasized this way—I am a writer—or this way—I am a writer. Of…
When I was in college and introduced to T. S. Eliot’s poetry, I fell in love. Something in his…
“A bad penny always turns up.” Ugh. I mistakenly thought that Biden’s election would mean the end of the political…
Creative writing—fiction, poetry—like any art starts, I think, with a “gift,” a talent, a desire to create sense and meaning…
If it is possible to have a “hero” as a writer, then I choose T.S. Eliot as mine. Now being…
The current heroes [of the so-called deep state]: Gabriel Sterling, Voting System Implementation Manager (Republican) There is also a reluctant…
As this anniversary year of the publication of The Waste Land draws to a close (and the year approaches in…
17 August 2022 This may be my I-think-I’ll-stay-home-for-awhile blog! Does that give away much of what I thought of London? …
23 July 2022 I “ran away” to Paris this past April. It seemed, in retrospect, that the pandemic had…
8 March 2022 I’ve done it: made the decision to flee this life for a bit. So, I’m headed to…
I promise myself that, except for some parenthetical asides, this will be the last post I make about Donald J.…
[Thanks to T. S. Eliot] What are poets good for? The 20th Century is not sure. Eliot thinks that by…