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A New Review of Antisocial

It's great to see a new review come out about a year after the first publication of my book, Antisocial. Thanks to Emily Peterson Crespo at JMWW.

Dirty Dancin'

I've got a new prose poem up at the revived ULA Redux, part of the Outsider Writers Collective.
This is a humorous response to schools that ban dances, proms and so forth due to those damned kids and their dirty dancin'

Fox Chase Review

The Fox Chase Review has published three of my poems in its summer issue.
Follow the link to read 'New Track Record,' 'They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait,' and'The Endless Pursuit.'
Fox Chase has also invited me to read in Philadelphia next July!

April Reading

Poetry Month reading at Sanilac District Library, Wed., April 14'th at 7:00 PM
The library is located on Main Street, aka M-46, in Port Sanilac and will feature at least two other poets besides myself. Free refreshments!

Have you had your coffee today?

Two poems, Dirty Words and Un-Manifesto have been published in issue 131 ofZygote in my Coffee. The company there is terrific, hope you'll enjoy it all.

New Poems Featured at Heavy Bear

Jane Crown's Heavy Bear has gone live with issue 5 and it features four poems of mine, Dear Hunting, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, And so we decided to continue the experiment,and Note to a Shadow of My Former Self.
Good company here, David Mclean, Lyn Lyfshin, Pris Campbel, Bill Gainer and many, many others.
Hope you'll visit!

Poem featured on local NPR Affiliate.

On January 18'th one of my poems, Driving Home Through The Rain After the Bars Closed, was read by Marc Beaudin on his weekly radio program, Report from the Mountains. Marc's show is featured twice each Mondays on Delta College public radio, 90.1 out of Michgan's Tri Cities area of Bay City, Saginaw and Midland.
Thank you Marc!

Welcome

Thanks for visiting my web page. Here you'll be able to read some of the pieces I've had published, and you'll find links to the places that published them.
I am available to read my work and discuss poetry with students or anyone else interested, as individuals or groups.
I live in Michigan, about one hundred miles north of Detroit. I always appreciate hearing from someone who has taken the time to read my work. An E-Mail address is on the left of this page.

A poem I wrote recently has been published at Counterpunc...

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A poem I wrote recently has been published at Counterpunch in their Poet's Basement column. The poem selected is Going Down After Dark. Counterpunch is a political newsletter with a Friday poetry feature. In the past they have published work by Robert Creeley, Harold Pinter, Laurence Ferlinghetti, and Patti Smith, as well as many talented new and upcoming writers. It is an honor to have work featured here.

Work Featured at Beat the Dust

Three poems from my book, Antisocial, are featured at Beat the Dust, along with a music video of Carol King and James Taylor singing, "So Far Away."
Now, you know you want to go and see what that's all about, right?
Beat the Dust