In The Corporate Conference Room

I’m honored to have my poem, before you, appearing in the Summer edition of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi Valley.

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…

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 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…

I’m honored to have my poem Devil Inside published by Granules. Granules is an online anthology by the folks at Mouthful of Salt, filled with great poems, prose, visual art, and hybrid work. Stay tuned, Mouthful of Salt has also accepted Nothing Was Lost Yet for their print journal, coming this fall!

I’m thrilled that four of my poems, Swept Away, At Work, The Details Are Available, and The Mechanics of Aerodynamics are appearing in the Spring 2018 print issue of Evening Street Review, Review Number 18. Check out their website to order a copy!