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Two of my poems will be included in the Spring 2022 issue of december magazine

Two of my poems will be included in the Spring 2022 issue of december magazine.

This is the third time they have featured my poetry and I am deeply appreciative.

Join the Poetry Society of Virginia North Central & Northwest Regions and Germanna Community College for an October Poetry Festival.

Join the Poetry Society of Virginia North Central & Northwest Regions and Germanna Community College for an October Poetry Festival. On Facebook, go HERE.

The event will be via Zoom and is free and open to all–students, PSV members, the general public.

Register HERE and receive a link.

Two of my poems are included in the latest issue of Poetry Quarterly

Two of my poems are included in the latest issue of Poetry Quarterly available for purchase in print HERE. 

My deepest gratitude to Editor Glenn Lyvers for his continuing support for good poetry and for featuring my work in this and a number of past issues. 

A poem written 20 years ago today

Poem written after 9/11

Magnolia Review published this poem I wrote shortly after 9/11 nearly 20 years ago. You can read the poem and the rest of the issue for free HERE.

The Big Windows Review will publish my poem “Images Divine and Secular”

The Big Windows Review will publish my poem “Images Divine and Secular” online on Friday, Nov 5. It will also appear in their printed issue 25, scheduled for Feb 2022.

Poetry Quarterly will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue.

Poetry Quarterly will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue.

Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers for regularly featuring my work. 

My poem, “The Burning Time,” is featured in the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

 My poem, “The Burning Time,” opens the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. You can read it for free HERE.

 My thanks to the editors for featuring my work in this issue as well as in four previous issues. 

My collection, Writing the Significant Soil, has won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and will be published by them

I am deeply honored that my collection, Writing the Significant Soil, has won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and will be published by them. My deepest appreciation to Editor Leslie Browning for her faith in this work.

Congratulations to the Finalist and Honorable Mentions:

Democracy works when we work it

Conservatives feel betrayed by the present because it doesn’t fit their imagined memory of a false perfect past.

Liberals feel betrayed by the present because it doesn’t fit their imagined dream of a false perfect future.

Too many then concluded that democracy has failed because it doesn’t give them the results they want and somehow deserve—and that a dictatorship of the “right” people is the only solution.

Most of the people throughout history or around the world today would love to be alive in the U.S. today.

Yes, we have serious problems. Yes, there are many left behind.

But the solutions lie in civic action today by engaged citizens working together, not in the destruction of democracy.