America’s Iconic Bald Eagle Abandons Her Nest: The Convenient Narrative Arcs of the Post-Truth World
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation has been assured, a fait accomplit, but the casualty of the ongoing divide, the deepening canyon with …
Category Archives: About Poetry
Requiem for a Book of Poems, and Why I’ve Been Thinking About Suicide
I wonder how many of us, in these very dark times, have felt the toxicity of the oxymoronic Trump presidency …
Si Se Puede – Learning to Transcend, Love and Live with the Inner Girl
On an Indian summer day in 1979, my 60 year old mother did the first independent thing she had done …
Recent Poem
Indigo To the memory of Robin Williams Tonight I thought I felt a shimmer of light in the long uncut …
Thriving Virtually: Literary Ahoys in the Night
I recently “shared” a new poem on Facebook, where one of the “apps” is that you can write a so-called …
Dispossession and Transcendence: A Reading of Sky Thick with Fireflies, Ethna McKiernan
Sky Thick with Fireflies Ethna McKiernan Salmon Press 2011, Ireland Many years ago, when I was in an informal writing …
Read It and Weep—He Liked My Work, But I Balked at the First Jump in the Editorial Olympiad
“Thanks for contacting me, redacted. There are in fact, numerous celebratory poems in the revised collection–in each section– that move …
Dreaming of a Windfall and Considering Happiness…
If I had the money I suspect a pair of billionaires have whom I watched debate whether or not to …
New Poem: Requiem for Rist Canyon
As of this post we hear that over 190 “structures,” principally in Rist Canyon, have burned in the High Park …
Art’s Real Price: Merely, Martyrdom…
Naturally writing only rises to the level of art if it radiates the craft and language we associate with literature. …
