Writing From Feeling
Posted April 29, 2014 in Lectures on Craft
This is my input as part of an international blog tour. Each writer is asked the same four questions. 1) What am I working on? I’m working on My Last Will and Testament, which is recolle...
Brandishing the PEN Reading
Posted April 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Brandishing the PEN PEN Oakland at Bird & Beckett Books Sunday, April 13th, 2pm 653 Chenery Street, in San Francisco Free A reading by six PEN Oakland writers– the “working class”...
Environmental Poetry Reading
Posted April 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Here is a sample poem from those I read at this reading last Saturday: Specters of The Ghosts We Once Were Picture a family of friends in a tree We spread out among the branches and sit ...
Three Poems
Posted February 8, 2014 in Recent Publication
My poems”Scarecrow,” “When the Shadows Fall Like Drapes Across the Living Room Floor,” and “Elegy to a Betrayer by an Outlaw Prophet” were published in Issue 4, 201...
Rite
Posted February 8, 2014 in Recent Publication
My poem “Rite” was published in the 2013 Noir issue of the Australian magazine, Contrappasso. Check out this very intriguing issue in a very fine magazine. http://contrappassomag.wordpress...
Eternal Hush
Posted February 8, 2014 in Recent Publication
My poem “Eternal Hush” was published in Issue 18, Leaves, Winter 2014 edition of the on-line BAWP magazine Digital Paper, along with my photo, Cat Among Leaves and Blossoms (Spring, 2012),...
Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted February 8, 2014 in Miscellaneous
I received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, presented by Ishmael Reed on November 23, 2013 at the Miami Book Fair....
That Inner Shade
Posted February 8, 2014 in Recent Publication
My poem “That Inner Shade” was published in the Fall 2013 issue of PoetryBay.com An excerpt: One moves as if under water able to see but not far yet able to feel intensely that is feel wit...