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February 14, 2019
Thomas Merton on the Need for Solitude
“When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.” (Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton)
February 12, 2019
‘I want you to live forward, but see backward’: a theoretical astrophysicist writes the poetry of science
February 9, 2019
February 2, 2019
Thank you Sky Island Journal for accepting 2 of my poems for publication on April 13, 2019
Thank you editors Jeff and Jason at Sky Island Journal for accepting 2 of my poems for publication on April 13, 2019.
They write:
“Dark Sector Lab, South Pole, March 2014” and “Smith” transport and challenge us in ways that poetry seldom does. The deeper truths within these poems create a gravity that our hearts simply cannot escape. Quiet intimacy, articulate grace, and careful concision are the calling cards of these pieces. Your imagery is elegant, and your craft is airtight. Like all great art, these poems are gifts that keep giving; we discover more about them, and ourselves, with every reading. They create a complicated view of our own humanity, and we are beyond excited to share them with the world.
From February 3 through February 7, three of my chapbooks will be available FREE from Amazon in Kindle format
From February 3 through February 7, three of my chapbooks will be available FREE from Amazon in Kindle format. All I ask if that you give them a read and review them on Amazon and Goodreads.
My Amazon Author Page:
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January 31, 2019
Thank you editors at Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine for accepting 4 of my poems to be published in the March 2019 issue.
Thank you editors at Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine for accepting 4 of my poems to be published in the March 2019 issue. This is the 4th time SBLAAM has accepted my work.
January 26, 2019
The Big Windows Review will publish my poem “The Orphan” online in February and in their print issue #15 in May
The Big Windows Review will publish my poem “The Orphan” online in February and in their print issue #15 in May. Thank you, Editor Tom Zimmerman. This is the second time they have featured my poetry.
January 23, 2019
You’ve got to be taught To hate
You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught
“South Pacific” Richard Rodgers
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
January 20, 2019
Mourning Mary Oliver
One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, rejoins the earth she celebrated in her wonderful verse.
Academy of American Poets obituary
In an era of snark and cynicism, of delanguaged and prosaic poetry, Oliver wrote emotionally powerful poems that lived and breathed in this world. We do well to live as she did and advised:
“So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.”
January 19, 2019
Poets make much less
The median income from writing for full-time authors, according to the Authors Guild, was $20,300 in 2017. For part-time writers, it was $6,080. That’s 42 percent lower than in 2010, a decline driven in part by the costs to publishers and authors of paying for promotion on Amazon.com
