This poem first appeared in print in the Fall 2017 issue of GFT Presents: One in Four. Order a copy now for late Fall 2017 delivery. Lost and Found Could you stop at the desk on your way home and ask the clerk if anything of use was found today? If it’s as simple as…
This poem first appeared online in the July 2017 edition of Ground Fresh Thursday. Liner Notes You won’t choose the music anymore, there’s just too much. Thousands of songs, ripped onto hard drives, searchable in long lists on small screens, nothing real or tactile, nothing that makes you stop, remember, and want. You miss the…
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!
This poem appeared in print in Straight Forward, Issue Nine, in June 2015. In The Corporate Conference Room Philip Levine knows how to describe a man standing in line, ready to work, and by work I mean doing what’s necessary to make his way in the world. The language poets haven’t cracked that nut. But…
This poem appeared in print in the Summer 2015 issue of Big Muddy. before you it was when I knew everything it was no deposit no return and bottles were glass there was a choice to be made both on AM and FM when a screwdriver and some aluminum foil pulled in HBO and finally…
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 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…
I’m thrilled to see my poem In The Corporate Conference Room in the journal Straight Forward. The poem is a bit of a screed on ‘CorpSpeak’. The editors at Straight Forward were wonderful and encouraging!
I’m honored to have my poem, before you, appearing in the Summer edition of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi Valley.