My Miniblog

I cannot image a life more rewarding than being a writer: the process of creativity, making something from thoughts & memories, the study of literature, especially poetry, and the people the vocation brings into my life.  I've written so long now I can't remember not being a writer.  I have tried to help other writers along the way by critiquing their work, recommending them for publication, giving workshops & lectures, etc.  I hope I've somehow managed to give as much back as literature has given to me.

 

 

 

My book, Counting the Lost, is now available from Main Street Rag Press.  This is my 6th collection, but no less exciting.  Most of the poems are based on art, sculpture & photojournalism, but there are some autobiographical ones since I lived in Berlin as a young adult.

 

Work is forcoming in Nimrod, Charlotte Viewpoint, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Penwood, Comstock Review, and Jacar's anthology of love poems.  To commemorate 9/11, my poem Transport was on ncartseveryday.com

  

Joseph Brodsky on receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature:

 

"The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extradordinary accelerator of consciousness, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.  Having experienced this acceleration once, one is no longer capable of abandoning the chance to repeat this experience . . ."

Photograph below is by John Martin.

Pictures

Here are some recent pictures. Enjoy!

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