I mean, I hope it will be happy.

2016 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, I had a poem in the anthology One Minute Till Bedtime, edited by Kenn Nesbitt, and had a couple of poems published online by Chantarelle's Notebook. On the other, I really didn't sell anything new in 2016 ( Read more... )

I have been telling myself a story for a while. The story goes something like this ( Read more... )

Four years after publication, and my little picture book and I are being featured as part of the Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore, Maryland ( Read more... )

Two weeks from today, I will be taking part in a poetry reading at 7 p.m. at the Daily Grind Coffee Shop in Mount Holly, New Jersey. The event is being billed by the organizer, Maverick Duck Press (which published my chapbook, The Universe Comes Knocking), as "The Fantastic Four ( Read more... )

As Thanksgiving approaches in the United States, I am thankful for many things:A wonderful life partner ( Read more... )

Um, yeah.

Short notice, I know. Sorry.

Life has been spinning at a faster-than-the-planet turns rate for the past couple of weeks here and the date crept up on me, and I totally missed Poetry Friday (for valid reasons to do with real-life overload, but still), and, and, and . . .

Short version:

I will be the featured reader at Poetry in the ( Read more... )

Lots of you know my friend Angela already (some in person, some on Live Journal - here's the link to her blog, and some by reference), and today I'm celebrating her. Not just because it's her birthday, though it is, but also because she's had lots of good publishing news of late ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not going to say they shouldn't have!

I'm very pleased to tell you that I've had a poem accepted by Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt for inclusion in a forthcoming anthology, One Minute Till Bedtime. My "Baseball Season" will be part of the mix, and I couldn't be more chuffed.



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My, but that was a lot of alliteration in one title. But it is true: A library in Saint-Omer, near Calais, recently discovered that the old edition of Shakespeare's plays that they have, which is missing a few pages, including the title page, is, in fact, a First Folio ( Read more... )

I do so love good mail, don't you? The last time I had good news, it was acceptance of a poetry chapbook for publication in early 2015 and a paycheck from The Philadelphia Inquirer for a travel piece I wrote.

This time, it's a contract for inclusion in The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, for a poem I wrote entitled "Pocket Change", which ( Read more... )