In The Corporate Conference Room

Two of my poems, Lost and Found and View from the Storm Surge are appearing in the Fall print issue of GFT Presents: One in Four, Volume 2 Issue 2. Order a print copy now for late fall delivery!

It’s been a while, but I’ve placed my poem Obsequies in The Beatnik Cowboy. They have a great online journal, just the write tone of wry cynicism that fits my style. Check them out, they publish new work every week or so.

I was thrilled to see my manuscript, Overseeing the Downfall, as a finalist for the 2016 New American Poetry Prize at New American Press. Overseeing the Downfall is a collection of Midwestern poems about work and family in the digital age, and the anticlimax of middle age. And music. It comes complete with a suggested…

Here’s a fun one: I have a micro-chapbook available at Origami Poems Project. And by “micro” I mean tiny. One 8.5 x 11″ sheet of paper, print at home, some clever folds, and you have a chapbook with 5 short poems! Code Poems examines 5 historic lines of computer code, and responds lyrically for today….

I’m honored to have my work, Liner Notes included among that of the other great poets featured in the July Ground Fresh Thursday poems. GFT is always a great hit of monthly poems, fiction and flash fiction. So much of my work reflects and is inspired by good old rock & roll, so it’s nice…

I am so honored to be selected as a finalist for the 2026 Rattle Poetry Prize! 11 great poets, 11 amazing poems. Congratulations to Marcia LeBeau as the top prize winner. I’m grateful to be selected, but also excited that the selection was my poem Crown of American Ashes. It’s a heroic crown of 14…