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January 20, 2015
Coming soon: Dark Matter from Aldrich Press #excerpts #poems
forthcoming autumn 2015 – Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books From the author: This particular collection was written over the past seven years. All the poems are based on images from the Astronomy Picture of the Day website: APOD. An earlier version of Dark Matter won the following prizes: 2009 Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize (formerly the Grolier Prize) for poems: […]
January 12, 2015
Evernight Teen’s Birthday Blog Hop!
Evernight Teen is having a birthday! And the Grand Prize is an iPad Mini! Wooooooooooooooo! It may be EVERNIGHT TEEN’s birthday, but you get the presents. So, grab a piece of cake, hop from blog-to-blog and discover EVERNIGHT TEEN! Be sure to visit every stop on the hop and answer each question. The more you blogs […]
January 1, 2015
December 25, 2014
12 Days of Catmas
12 days of Catmas On the first day of Christmas my two cats gave to me a dingleberry in a pine tree. On the second day of Christmas my two cats gave to me two hair balls, and a dingleberry in a pine tree. On the third day of Christmas my two cats gave to […]
December 24, 2014
Don’t drink on xmas eve
Don’t drink on xmas eve It happened this past midnight clear: three crazy elves and two drunk deer crashed in the yard atop my sled then slipped downhill against the shed. The sky was dry, the sunset gone: where in hell did they come from? Their groans and moans kept me awake; I knew there […]
December 23, 2014
Mrs. Kringle’s Lament
Mrs. Kringle’s Lament They said we’d only get an inch of snow but when I wake it’s covered up the road and slush has pulled some branches down so low my favorite tree looks like it might explode. I trudge outside with gloves and scarf and salt to promptly slip and fall upon my rear […]
December 11, 2014
Tis the season
‘Tis the Season The malls are insane but you have to go shopping for ribbon and candy to fill the last stocking. You can’t stop to cry, ’tis the season for snow and ice covered roads jammed with cars going slow slow, so horribly … oh! There’s a dude dressed in red on the […]
November 24, 2014
Every two years I remember…
Every two years my younger son must go to the hospital for tests. Today, we drove down to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and I am tired and happy, because he is fine. His echocardiogram, EKG, and stress test show that his repaired congenital heart defect is completely stable. All that’s left from the terror of his […]
November 2, 2014
Autumn, my favorite season #poem
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Several years ago, I wrote a poem that perfectly captures my sense of autumn. It’s an ekphrastic poem written after seeing a watercolor by Wolf Kahn that moved me greatly. Here is a link to the only version of the artwork I can find on the interwebz. This […]
November 1, 2014
Devils in the Dark by Marcus Damanda #CoverReveal!
I have the distinct pleasure of introducing a great horror novel: Devils in the Dark by Marcus Damanda. It will be released from Evernight Teen on November 14! It’s the first book in a trilogy and it is very, very creepy. Without further ado, here is the cover –> “The paramedics shared a look: […]
