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Podcast interview about An Abundance of Caution

Enjoy this lively conversation with the editors of Unbound Edition Press, where we discuss finding time to write, poetry, and some of the poems in my forthcoming book An Abundance of Caution, publishing in April 2023:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qXa...

Poem on Vox Populi

So pleased to have "After the Recent Unpleasantness" posted on Vox Populi today. It will be part of my book "An Abundance of Caution," to be published in April 2023 by Unbound Edition Press:
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2022/07/0...

New book announced!

Delighted to share this news about my fourth book, An Abundance of Caution, to be published in September 2022 by Unbound Edition Press:

https://www.unboundedition.com/george...

Terrific poem by JD Debris

Sharing this poem, The Voice of Hercules--beautifully measured, subtly rhymed, movingly told--by JD Debris, first published in Ninth Letter and featured on Poetry Daily:

https://poems.com/poem/the-voice-of-h...

Beautiful poem by Cate Marvin

Sharing this lovely poem Blue Lights by Cate Marvin, posted on Poetry Daily and first published in New England Review:

https://poems.com/poem/blue-lights/?u...

New Poem in Passengers

Glad to be in good company in the September 2021 issue of Passengers, with a poem titled "Search":

https://www.passengersjournal.com/vol...

CODA movie: Must See

Saw CODA yesterday with my daughter, who is hearing impaired (hearing aid + cochlear implant), but often feels more comfortable using sign language. CODA (acronym for Child of Deaf Adults) is about a fishing family in Gloucester, MA, deaf parents and adult son, hearing teenage daughter who has long been the family’s interpreter to a world ignorant of ASL and deaf culture. As the daughter begins to dream of attending music school, her family struggles to understand why she would leave them and what doing so might mean for their livelihood, their future, and their family bond.

I can not recommend this wonderful—funny, dramatic, joyous, authentic, tear jerking (in the best way)— movie highly enough. It is in theaters in major cities and also streams on Apple TV. Seeing it in a theater after so many months in lockdown was a revelation, especially the singing (the teenage daughter has a beautiful voice) and the signing in ASL, which is accompanied by captions.

Go see CODA, yourself or with your teenager/young adult.

Today Show interview with Charles Person

Watch this remarkable interview between Today Show host Craig Melvin and original 1961 Freedom Rider Charles Person, author of Buses Are a Comin:

https://www.today.com/video/freedom-r...

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

National Museum of African American History and Culture TONIGHT

Please register for what will be a wonderful dialogue between original Freedom Rider Charles Person and NPR "All Things Considered" weekend host Michel Martin:

https://nmaahc.si.edu/event/historica...

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

New poems in Five Points

Delighted to have 3 poems among great company in the new issue of Five Points:

http://fivepoints.gsu.edu/

Please consider ordering a copy and/or subscribing to this fine journal.